The More Easily Kept Illusions: The Poetry of Al Purdy

by Robert Budde and Al Purdy

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088920490X
• ISBN13: 9780889204904
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"