The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy

Index

Index Note: AP refers to Al Purdy A A-bomb see"bomb poems" A-frame house, 107-108,177, 208,215 Aboriginal peoples, 12^7,165-167, 202 "About Being a Member of Our Armed Forces" (WGW, AP),95 accident, 105,113 Acorn, Milton,52 "Across the Mary River ..." (SB, AP); 132-133 "Adobe" (AP), 78 Agawa, 165 "The Age of Machines" (EE, Purdy), 33 Air Force, 31, 34-35, 37, 42,44-45, 93, 95 Al Purdy (Bowering), 36, 79,127, 243 "Al Purdy, Sam Solecki, and the Poetics of the 19605" (Davey), i8in8 "Al Purdy's Poetry: Openings" (Dragland), i74ni amateurism, 169-170 ambiguous feelings, 185-186 Ameliasburgh, Ontario, 9,107,111, 177, 215, 216 ancestors SeePurdy, Al, family animals in Al Purdy's works, 46-47, 55-58, 121-123,12 5/ 22 5 bones of, 203 dialogue with, 128 ghosts of, 203 man as, 59 See also birds annotations, 81 anthologies, I2in3, 221-222 anthropomorphism, 122,123,148,225 apophasis, 208-209 archaeology, 64ni, 69-70,108,159,205 archives, 13111,17,18, 22, 82, 88,177 arctic seeNorth "Arctic Places" (CP,Brown),133-134 "Arctic Rhododendrons" (AP), 207 "Arctic Romance" (SD,AP), I3ini2 art artistic control,106 function of, 59-61, 96-97,159, 160-161, 207 as living thing, 60,159-160,196, 199 magic of, 161 and morals,101 painting, 120,165-166, 205-206 permanent, 205-206 power of, 167,169,170 process, 160-161 relationship with humans, 192 and war,96-97 See also artifacts; the picturesque artifacts, 60,159,167,191-192, 202-205. See also art "Artist's Model" (AP), 78 "At Evergreen Cemetery" (CLL, AP), 177 ^53 254 I INDEX "At the Athenian Market" (BR, Solecki and AP), 194,205 "At the Quinte Hotel" (AP), 134 "The Atavist" (EE, AP), 47-48, 57 Atwood, Margaret, 13,28,121, 205, 239 Auden, 235 authenticity, 170 autobiographical works, 17,19, 59-60, 93,143,144, 241. Seealso Morning and it's Summer (AP);Reaching for the Beaufort Sea(AP) automobiles, 58, 203,204 "Autumn" (BR, Solecki and AP),204 B Baffin Island, 127,130,161 "Ballad of the Arctic" (AP), 132-133 the banal, 161-162,171, 202,203-204 Barbour, Douglas, I2on2 Barr, Joe, 17 Beardsley, Doug, 25,221-225 "Beautiful Words" (AP),38-39, 41 "Beer Poem" (WS,AP), 84^ Being Alive: Poems 1958-78, 71,74-76, 84 Bemrose, John, 144 Bentley, D. M. R., 106-107,132,194, 208, 239-245 Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems ofAl Purdy (AP and Solecki) annotations, 81 editor of, 71 editor's note,242 on judging poetry,235 preface, 52 reading texts,83-84 selection, 83-84, 86-87, 242/ 243 structure of, 76-77,83-84 works in, 106, i59n2,180-181 bibliographic structure for collections, 87 bibliographies, 78, 82-83, 88-89 birds, 97,145,160-161,195-196,199, 203, 204 "Birds and Beasts" (PB,AP), i89ni2 Birney, Earle Al Purdy on, 54, 214, 215, 235 on Carman, 232n6 correspondence with, 22, 36,53-54, 58, 233, 234ni2, 235 dedications to, 235ni3 as mentor, 23,233 poetry about Al Purdy,28 on Pratt, 234-235 travel, 52-53,234 works by, 54,55 Black Moss Press, 75 Black Mountain poetics, 24,66 Blake, 208 "Bliss Carman" (AP),81 "Blood Pressure Blues" (PB, AP),95 The Blur in Between: Poems 1960-1 (AP), 73, 242 blurbs, 163 bodies, 156. Seealso bones "bomb poems," 92,96-98,101 bones, 191, 202-203,241 Bowering, George Al Purdy as most Canadian poet, i/94 Al Purdy on, 66 on Al Purdyr s language, 38,163 on Al Purdy's northern works, 121,127 correspondence with, 24,63 critical approach, 243 on The Enchanted Echo, 42-43,46 poetics,228n2 works about Al Purdy, 28, 32,36 Bringhurst, Robert, i8in8 Brockwell, Stephen, 9-12 "Brother" (ECW, AP), 174^ Brown, Russell, 76,78,80,84^,88, 112-113,242,243 Brown's Harbour, 123-125,127 Buckley, Joan, 35-41,42,48, 93 Budde, Robert, 162-163 "The Buddhist Bell" (HP,AP), 97-99 buildings, 154, 203,208 Bukowski, Charles, 23,64ni, 67-68, I26n9, i27nio Bursting into Song: An Al Purdy Omnibus (Gervais),71, 75, 76 Byron, 46ni8 c Canada and the Idea of North (Grace), 120 Canada Council for the Arts, i, 23, 28, 123, i3ini2,240 "Canadian Architexts" (Bentley), 107 Canadian Forum, 48, 54, 79, 242 Canadian...