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Author: Irving Layton
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Apr 1988
 | Fortunate Exile
by Irving Layton,
McClelland & Stewart/Tundra Books
pages MM
ISBN: 0771049471
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In The Smithy Of His Soul
by Joe Rosenblatt
THE HEAVY METAL of Canadian poetry, Irving Layton`s oeuvre is weightier than that of any other ironworker serving the muse. Since 1945, with the publication of his first book, Here and Now, he has produced over 40 volumes, and in his 76th year,
those spirited bellows are still feeding the fires that heat up the metals for the gods. A prolific output, while providing the fuel rods for inspirational energy, also dilutes the sublime by scattering its bonding valences and thus weakening the alloys. Read more...
| Nov 1990
Dead Letters
by David Donnell
THIS IS QUITE a handsomely produced book, as it should he for $32.95. It`s meticulously edited, there`s an introduction of some length, a substantial notes section possibly prepared by a willing graduate student -- and an exhaustive index. Read more...
| Mar 2003
From Layton with Love
by Chris Jennings
It happens often enough that there must be some thrill in pronouncing the death of abstract things, of gods, or "the author", or irony. These pronouncements render moving targets static, making it easier to define them when delivering a eulogy; they revel in morbid eloquence rather than identifying signs of necrosis. Read more...
| Oct 2004
A Review of: A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems
by Zach Wells
Irving Layton is Canada's greatest poet and was, at one time, easily
the most famous-or infamous-and popular of our writers. He has been a
Yeatsian "public man" in a way that no other Canadian poet has. His
work, which evinces an ambition for, and faith in, the transformative
potential of art sorely absent in most of our contemporary verse, has
been translated into a dozen languages and he was twice nominated for
the Nobel Prize (by South Korea and Italy). He has written at least a
couple of dozen poems that merit favourable comparison with any best
of twentieth century poet's efforts.
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