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Alden Nowlan : essays on his works
- Title
- Alden Nowlan : essays on his works / edited by Gregory M. Cook.
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo : Guernica, 2006.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- 143 pages; 18 cm.
- Summary
- "Alden Nowlan, born near Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1933, was a poet, journalist, novelist and playwright who overcame the disadvantages of poverty and a mere four grades of education, to publish more than twenty books and three plays in his fifty years. Among his numerous awards, his writing earned him two honorary degrees, a Guggenheim fellowship and Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1968. That same year he was appointed writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, a position he held until his death in 1983." "This book examines Nowlan's bravery in accepting the limitations of his class and his art, as well as the myopia of the critical milieu in which his work was measured. Here is a glimpse of his Kunstlerroman - the elements of his art and his humanity, which sees his reputation steadily developing internationally. Robert Bly says, "Alden Nowlan is the greatest Canadian poet of the twentieth century." Contributors include: Geoffrey Cook, John Metcalfe, Paul Milton, Thomas R. Smith, and David Adams Richards."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Writers series ; 19
- Uniform Title
- Writers series (Toronto, Ont.) ; 19.
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes interview--Alden Nowlan interviewed by John Metcalf.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-141).
- Contents
- Introduction : "what it is like to be Alden Nowlan," in the Canadian class-scape / Gregory M. Cook -- Alden Nowlan : a rising young Canadian writer talks to Amethyst : an interview / Gregory M. Cook -- Alden Nowlan : interview / John Metcalfe -- Alden Nowlan : selected poems / Gregory M. Cook -- Various persons named Kevin O'Brien : Nowlan's novel response to the critics / Paul Milton -- A fully human poem : in praise of Alden Nowlan / Thomas R. Smith -- "My family was poor" : thinking about Alden Nowlan and class / Thomas Smith -- I went to meet Alden Nowlan / David Adams Richards.
- ISBN
- 9781550712544 (pbk.)
- 1550712543 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2006929271
- OCLC
- ocm70507026
- 70507026
- SCSB-5303962
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries