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Much-loved, cantankerous, and brilliant, Al Purdy galloped across the Canadian literary landscape for decades, grandly embodying the self-taught and hard-living image of the 1960s and 70s poet. The More Easily Kept Illusions: The Poetry of Al Purdy is a selection of thirty-five poems that includes some of his best-loved and unearths lost and ignored treasures. Robert Budde introduces the collection with an overview of Purdy s tumultuous life of letters, his legendary personality, his outrageous antics, his peers, his influences, and the history of his publishing career. Reorganizing Purdy s body of work, this collection also re-interprets the chronological and thematic development of his writing. Choosing poems for a book like this is necessarily an act of literary criticism and Budde takes care to balance the various critical attentions that have structured the historical responses to Purdy s work. The selected poems will mix lesser-known gems with Purdy s greatest hits. Teachers, poetry-lovers, students, and writers will rediscover Purdy s unique voice. Those who are new to his work will get a full and rich sense of the man some have called the last Canadian poet. Also includes a

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Author

Purdy, Al; Budde, Robert

Publisher

Wilfrid Laurier University Press ; University of Toronto Press Distributor

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781554580743

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.75 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14