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The great Canadian sonnet : compleat in one volume by story by David McFadden; drawn by Greg Curnoe is a book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The great Canadian sonnet : compleat in one volume about?
'Just because I'm writing this long story doesn't mean to say I think I'm a great writer, or even mildly talented. No, I am merely trying to put things down in the best way I know how, contributing to the story of the human race in whatever we do anyway, things only I can put down in this way because everyone has something different to put down in different ways, whether or not he actually does put them down, how comfortably the language fits him in a literary way. And besides I really like it, and think of the money to be made if others like it and the word spreads No matter how imperfect my vision, talents, literary conceptions, I must be putting it down good, because of the enjoyment of it all. Ah, joy' Dave McFadden Since its first appearance in 1974, The Great Canadian Sonnet has been a classic. Shaped like those Golden Big Little Books, it matches each page of McFadden's bizarre text with an even more bizarre drawing by Greg Curnoe. Follow Canadian hero Rick Wayne and company as they move sideways to grapple with the Big Questions. Watch as they try, for instance, to 'come up with a really good poem, one that will be truly loved by the prime minister and truly meaningful
- Author
- story by David McFadden; drawn by Greg Curnoe
- Publisher
- Coach House Book Publishing
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781552450604
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Humanities
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