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Soft cover. Condizione: Good ++. SUBTITLED : ` A Collection of Modern Canadian Poems '. Purdy confesses in the opening of these 157 pages, that he set out to build an anthology for schools and ended up more with a collection of his favourites. Beware of old guys ! Within this volume you will find : Malcolm Lowry, Alden Nowlan, and M.E. Atwood (a.k.a. Margaret) (a.k.a. Margaret Eleanor); but also Kildare Dobbs, A.M. Klein and Eldon Grier. UNillustrated. Short bios of all poets begins on page 117 with Milton Acorn. Ends with Ian Young. (You might known A.W. Purdy as Alfred Wellington Purdy or simply, Al Purdy.) Cond: Red checkerboard cover. sound in binding. Light soiling. Many of the usual library markings and flaws. Middlin' or better reading copy. QUote (p. 76 from Derek Pethik's `The Nu Nollej') : " `What's the use of such fetters as capital letters, Punctuation, or similar crimes ?' So the Schoolman would cry, and the class would reply `They are quote out of tune with the times ! ' `Other schools are ._._._.'. . " Size: 8vo.