A handful of earth
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1977
- Author
- Purdy, Al
- Publisher
- Coatsworth, Ont. : Black Moss Press
- Call Number
- 05.1 P97a
- Author
- Purdy, Al
- Responsibility
- Al Purdy
- Publisher
- Coatsworth, Ont. : Black Moss Press
- Published Date
- 1977
- Physical Description
- 62 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Abstract
- Pertains to the poetry of Al Purdy, a 20th century Canadian free verse poet. The publication is composed of various old and new poems that discuss struggle, victory and connection.
- Contents
- Old Poems:
- The Death Mask (pg. 11)
- Along the Ionian Coast (pg. 12)
- Bankruptcy Proceedings (pg. 14)
- The Hub-Cap Thief (pg. 16)
- Encounter in the Lobby (pg. 16)
- Funeral (pg. 17)
- Up tight with Jacob and Esau (pg. 18)
- In the Dream of Myself (pg. 19)
- The Shout (pg. 20)
- Pedestrian in Trento, Ont. (pg. 21)
- Summer Rain (pg. 21)
- Fragmentary (pg. 22)
- Infra-Red (pg. 23)
- Musings (pg. 25)
- Interview (pg. 27)
- Starlings (pg. 29)
- Of Course you Can't (pg. 31)
- New Poems:
- Running (pg. 33)
- Ave Imperator (pg. 35)
- A Handful of Earth (pg. 37)
- Llama (pg. 39)
- On the Altiplano (pg. 42)
- Fiddleheads (pg. 43)
- Postscript to E.B.B. (pg. 45)
- In the Forest (pg. 47)
- Rome, 24 B.C. (pg. 52)
- Report to an Assyrian General (pg. 55)
- Pre-School (pg. 57)
- Prince Edward County (pg. 59)
- George Woodcock (pg. 61)
- ISBN
- 0887530222
- Accession Number
- 3069 a
- Call Number
- 05.1 P97a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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