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Reaching for the Beaufort Sea: An Autobiography
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Al Purdy
Long known to insiders as one of the most unique personalities in Canadian letters, the celebrated poet Al Purdy begins this story of his life by noting that just as he was about to be born his hometown of Trenton was flattened by a historic explosion as the local munitions factory, "no doubt accounting for any oddity and eccentricity in my character." By the time the read
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Hardcover
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296 pages
Published
January 1st 1993
by Harbour Publishing
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Alfred Wellington Purdy was one of the most popular and important Canadian poets of the 20th century. Purdy's writing career spanned more than fifty years. His works include over thirty books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four books of correspondence. He has been called the nation's "unofficial poet laureate".
Born in Wooler, Ontario Purdy went to Albert College in Belleville, Onta ...more
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