The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy

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Contents Reference Key ix Introduction i STEPHEN BROCKWELL Ingredients for Certain Poems by Al Purdy 9 SAM SOLECKI Materials for a Biography of Al Purdy 13 D.M.R. BENTLEY Unremembered and Learning Much: LACAlfred W.Purdy 31 SANDRA DJWA Al Purdy: Ivory Thots and the Last Romantic 51 GEORGE BOWERING Purdy among the Tombs 63 DEAN IRVINE Beyond Forgetting: Editing Purdy] Purdy Editing 71 JOEL BAETZ 'I couldn't write it like that anyway': Al Purdy's Hiroshima Poems 91 ROBERT DAVID STACEY Purdy's Ruins: In Search of Owen Roblin, Literary Power, and the Poetics of the Picturesque 103 I. S. MACLAREN Arctic Al: Purdy's Humanist Vision of the North 119 GWENDOLYN GUTH Good People 137 MARGARET STEEPLER , 'Living in a Land of Giants': Locating and Sustaining Boyhood 143 JANICE FIAMENGO 'Kind of ludicrous or kind of beautiful I guess': Al Purdy's Rhetoric of Failure 159 JEREMY LALONDE Song and Silence in Al Purdy's Family Elegies 173 TIM HEATH 'Buried bones and ornaments and stuff: Purdy's Reliquary Poetics 191 STEVEN HEIGHTON On Trying to Wear Al's Shirts 213 DOUG BEARDSLEY Reflections on a Dynamic Collaboration 221 TRACY WARE Al Purdy, Sam Solecki, and Canadian Tradition 227 D.M.R. BENTLEY Conclusion, Retrospective, and Prospective 239 Select Bibliography of Secondary Materials 247 Contributors 251 ...