Al Purdy
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Born January 1, 1918
Died January 1, 2000 (82 years old)
Quinte West, Canada
25 books
3.7 (3)
29 readers
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A splinter in the heart
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A Splinter in the Heart, Al Purdy's only novel, provides a vivid picture of Purdy's childhood home of Trenton, Ontario, in the final days of the First World War. On Thanksgiving Day in 1918, Trenton was devastated by a fire and explosion at a munitions factory owned by the British Chemical Company, the town's one big employer. All of the action in A Splinter in the Heart anticipates this cataclysm. As disaster looms, Purdy takes Patrick Cameron, his awkward and undistinguished teenage hero, through the usual elements of adolescence: he falls in love; he takes up long-distance running; his mother is courted by Trenton's firebrand preacher; his ancient grandfather, Marshall "Portugee" Cameron, dies.
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D. J. Enright, Jones Very, Herman Melville, Michael S. Harper, Wyatt, Thomas Sir, David Lawrence, Lewis Carroll, Paul Celan, Octavio Paz, Boynton, Henry Walcott, Pāratitācan̲, George Mackay Brown, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Dylan Thomas, Saint-John Perse, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Stéphane Mallarmé, Sir Philip Sidney, Ennis Rees, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Glassco, Karl Jay Shapiro, William Barnes, Jorge Luis Borges, Niyi Osundare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Leah Goldberg, Cyprian Norwid, Yvor Winters, Anne Brontë, Carol Ann Duffy, Seán Ó Ríordáin, Czesław Miłosz, Sister Mary Madeleva, Oxenham, John, Mongane Wally Serote, Michael Rosen, Paul Éluard, Harvey Shapiro, Johannes Bobrowski, Barnabe Googe, Sophocles, Rudyard Kipling, Walter De la Mare, Aldous Huxley, Charles Olson, William Butler Yeats, Walt Whitman, Frank O'Hara, Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs, Diana Der Hovanessian, D. H. Lawrence, John Keats, Lorna Goodison, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Percy Bysshe Shelley, César Vallejo, Paul Verlaine, Graham, W. S., Ovid, James Arlington Wright, John Ashbery, Анато́лий Александрович Биск, Tomas Tranströmer, John Updike, Gaspara Stampa, Emma Lazarus, W. H. Auden, Lord Byron, Robinson Jeffers, Fergusson, Robert, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Rita Dove, William Shakespeare, Laurie Lee, Carl Sandburg, John Frederick Nims, Langston Hughes, Yves Bonnefoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Conrad Aiken, John Greenleaf Whittier, Eugène Guillevic, Michael Longley, Günter Grass, F. R. Scott, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Muriel Rukeyser, Les A. Murray, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Pinsky, Odysseas Elytis, Pierre Reverdy, Hugo, Richard, Emily Brontë, Seamus Deane, Dannie Abse, Adrienne Rich, Laura Riding, Friedrich Hölderlin, Georg Trakl, John Davidson, Rabindranath Tagore, Pádraic H. Pearse, Clarke, Austin, Steve Griffiths, George Crabbe, Fred Wah, Robert Bly, Roy Fuller, Pierre de Ronsard, Gaius Valerius Catullus, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Derek Walcott, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Cecil Day-Lewis, Anne Stevenson, David Malouf, Thomas Gray, Emily Dickinson, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Herrick, Oscar Williams, Isaac Watts, Charlotte Brontë, Vernon Phillips Watkins, Rafael Alberti, Jean Garrigue, Zbigniew Herbert, Young, Andrew, A. M. Klein, James Tate, William Wordsworth, Charlotte Mary Mew, Theocritus, Charles Churchill, Oscar Wilde, Rainer Maria Rilke, Anna Akhmatova, George Fetherling, Robert Bringhurst, Gascoyne, David, Robert Henryson, Lewis, Saunders, Pratt, E. J., Rosalía de Castro, Thomas Merton, Edward Robeson Taylor, John Shaw Neilson, Christopher Smart, Ai Weiwei, John Skelton, Kevin Crossley-Holland, U. A. Fanthorpe, Margaret Avison, John Peale Bishop, Al Purdy, Boileau, Vladimir Nabokov, Thompson, Denys, Giacomo Leopardi, Kenneth Rexroth, Adam Czerniawski, Kenneth Koch, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robin Hyde, John Ciardi, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Andrew Marvell, David John Murray Wright, Thomas Chatterton, William Blake, T. S. Eliot, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Giovanni Pascoli, Guillaume Apollinaire, Stevie Smith, Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson, John Gay, Emile Nelligan, Henrik Nordbrandt, Ausiàs March, Aaron J. Clarke, Jules Laforgue, Ezra Pound, John Hollander, Christina Georgina Rosetti, George William Russell, Theodore Roethke, Jaime Torres Bodet, Jibanananda Das, Gyula Illyés, Robert Frost, John Milton, Attilio Bertolucci, Federico García Lorca, Sir Walter Scott, Lars Gustafsson, Anne Sexton, John Berryman, W. D. Snodgrass, Heinz Piontek, Kenneth Patchen, Bill Bissett, William Peskett, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Sophie Hannah, António Machado
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