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The career of Eli Mandel (1922–1992) was one of the most prolific and distinguished in all of Canadian literature, yet in recent years his work has gone unsung compared with that of such peers as Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Robert Kroetsch, Irving Layton, and P.K. Page. Though he was a critic, anthologist, and editor of national prominence, Mandel’s legacy resides most securely in his poetry, which earned many accolades.

From Room to Room: The Poetry of Eli Mandel presents thirty-five of Mandel’s best poems written over four decades, from the 1950s to the 1980s. The selection covers the most prominent themes in Mandel’s work, including his Russian-Jewish heritage, his Saskatchewan upbringing, his interest in classical and biblical archetypes, and his concern for the political and social issues of his time. The book also highlights the way in which Mandel’s work bridged the formal attributes of modernist poetry with contemporary, sometimes experimental, poetics.

Complete with a scholarly introduction by Peter Webb and a literary afterword by Andrew Stubbs, From Room to Room makes a worthy addition to the Laurier Poetry Series, which presents affordable editions of contemporary Canadian poetry for use in the classroom and the enjoyment of anyone wishing to read some of the finest poetry Canada has to offer.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Foreword
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  1. Biographical Note
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  1. Introduction
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  1. Minotaur Poems
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  1. Estevan Saskatchewan
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  1. The Fire Place
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  1. In the Caves of My City
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  1. City Park Merry-Go-Round
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  1. Doll on the Mantelpiece
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  1. Epilogue
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  1. Mary Midnight’s Prologue
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  1. Charles Isaac Mandel
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  1. David
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  1. Hippolytus
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  1. The Meaning of the I CHING
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  1. Girl on a High Wire
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  1. Houdini
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  1. The Madness of Our Polity
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  1. The Speaking Earth
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  1. From the North Saskatchewan
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  1. Two Dream Songs for John Berryman
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  1. On the 25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
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  1. Room XV
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  1. On the Renewal of Bombing in VietNam December, 1972
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  1. Envoi
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  1. the return
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  1. signs
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  1. doors of perception
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  1. near Hirsch a Jewish cemetery
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  1. STRIKE sept 1931
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  1. estevan, 1934
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  1. petroglyphs at st victor
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  1. the doppelganger
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  1. Pictures in an Institution
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  1. On the Murder of Salvador Allende
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  1. The Madwomen of the Plaza de Mayo
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  1. In My 57th Year
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  1. Zenith: Saving to Disk
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  1. Afterword
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  1. Acknowledgements
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