Starting from Ameliasburgh: The Collected Prose of Al Purdy

by Al Purdy

During the years Al Purdy was becoming one of Canada's best-loved poets, he also wrote and published many pages of distinctive prose. This selection of almost forty years of essays and anecdotes is vintage Purdy. Part I, No Other Country, consists of essays on seeing the world as a Canadian. It begins as a fascinating travel diary as Purdy takes the reader riding the rails through the Depression-era West, continues to Labrador to search for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550171275
• ISBN13: 9781550171273
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Harbour Publishing
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.0"