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OTHER CANADIANS
An Anthology of the New Poetry in Canada 1940-46
Edited by John Sutherland
First Statement Press
Features editor's Introduction
"The Old and The New" [excerpts follow]
"Have there been any poets in Canada whom one
could call native or national?" "Are we really located
somewhere abroad, busy improving our minds,
or are we sitting in a remote section of the Canadian
backwoods?
Is the native dust shaken off our shoes
or not?""If God still talks to these poets in private
he carries less weight than Karl Marx or
The seven-day fireworks of the world's creation matter
less than the creation of the scialist
state; the cure
of earthy ills is to be achieved by economics or psychology rather than by divine intervention.
These poets are
interested in events and ideas whose importance is neither
ephemeral nor imaginary to
the living thinking individual; they intend at least to speak
to the average man of everyday realities and of the principles which operate in them."
Other Books Published This Year:
Fearful Symmetry / A Study of William Blake, Northrop Frye (Princeton University Press)
Poems for People by Dorothy Livesay (Ryerson Press)
Go to Sleep, World by Raymond Souster (Ryerson Press)
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