Product Description This is a collection of poetry. About the Author Miriam Waddington (nee Dworkin) was born December 23, 1917 in Winnipeg. She studied English at University of Toronto (B.A. 1939) and social work at University of Pennsylvania (M.A.). Waddington lived in Montreal, doing social work, writing poetry, and raising her family during the 1940's and 50's. She returned to Toronto to work with North York Family Services and to teach English at York University 1964-1983. She was the Canada Council Exchange Poet to Wales in 1980, poetry editor of Poetry Toronto, writer-in-residence at the Windsor Public Library and at the University of Ottawa. She received the J.J. Segal award in 1972. In addition to her poetry, Waddington also published a short story collection Summer at Lonely Beach and the critical study A.M. Klein.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louis Simpson’s newest volume of poetry, "Searching for the Ox," heralds a literary event of the highest order. The poems here all have a strong narrative structure, and at the same time they are beautifully lyrical, evocative of times, places and moods as strikingly different as the 1930s in tropical Kingston harbor and windy, wintry afternoons on postwar Riverside Drive. Like the masters of Zen, Simpson celebrates the everyday things that give the world color, shape, form and reason; he conveys the essence of an experience through his observation of small details. "Searching for the Ox" is divided into four parts. As Simpson observes in the Preface, "The first two parts describe the life of a young man coming from a background similar to my own. Poems in the third part are more meditative; they are about a way of life. And the concluding section is made up of poems rising out of my interests as a writer."

This volume draws on Jon Silkin's nine collections of verse, beginning with "The Peaceable Kingdom" (1954).

"With The Covenant Irving Layton takes up once more the controversial theme of his previous volume, For My Brother Jesus. Returning to the fray, he lays waste to his critics with the kind of impassioned eloquence and well-honed reason that have kept succeeding generations of readers in awe if his prodigious mind and craft. The Covenant extends Layton's earlier argument about the relationship between the Holocaust and Christianity; it is an attempt to humanize and to de-mystify Jesus Christ, and to show the difference between his true disciples and those whom Layton calls "Xians", the ones who have perverted the teachings of Christ. With prophetic fire, Layton roars forth his testimony in stanzas that ring with honesty, conviction, and truth. His genius flashes with similar intensity but contrasting mood in the many beautiful love lyrics and meditative poems that are interspersed throughout. The Covenant is a worthy successor to the long list of books that mark the progress and popularity of this major poet." -- From back cover.

Book by Roditi, Edouard

1976, Paperback, 139 pages

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