More Easily Kept Illusions The Poetry of Al Purdy

Al Purdy'sdown-to-earth voice populates thirty-three books, including The Cariboo Horses(1965), North of Summer(1967), Sex & Death(1973), and Piling Blood(1984). The two major collections of his work are The Collected Poems of Al Purdy(1986) and Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy(2000). Purdy died in Sidney, BC, on April 21, 2000.Robert Buddeteaches creative writing and critical theory at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George. He has published four books (two poetry-Catch as Catchand traffick, and two novels-Misshapenand, most recently, The Dying Poem). He maintains two online literary journals at and .Russell Morton Brownis a professor in the department of English at the University of Toronto. An editor for the University of Toronto Quarterly, the editor of The Collected Poems of Al Purdy, and co-editor with Donna Bennett of the New Anthology of Canadian Literature in English, he was also Editorial Director of Poetry at McClelland and Stewart for five years.Budde, Robert is the author of 'More Easily Kept Illusions The Poetry of Al Purdy', published 2006 under ISBN 9780889204904 and ISBN 088920490X.