Full name: Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996

Author: Al Purdy Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781550171488 1550171488

A selection of poems by the man described by the Globe Mail as "the greatest of our poets." Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets includes three decades' worth of thought-provoking work, including poems from the Governor-General's Award-winning The Cariboo Horses to Naked with Summer in Your Mouth. Purdy personally made this selection, assisted by Sam Solecki, the editor of Starting from Ameliasburgh: The Collected Prose of Al Purdy. In these poems, Purdy ponders the remains of a Native village; encounters Fidel Castro in Revolutionary Square; curses a noisy cellmate in the drunk tank; and marvels at the "combination of ballet and murder" known as hockey, all in the author's inimitable man-on-the-street style. Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets is destined to become the standard Purdy poetry volume for many years to come. Similar books: The Journals of Susanna Moodie by Margaret Atwood Songs for Relinquishing the Earth by Jan Zwicky A Wild Peculiar Joy by Irving Layton A Boy's Will by Robert Frost Desire by Frank Bidart The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen Debbie by Lisa Robertson Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery Crow by Ted Hughes The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje Garbage Delight by Dennis Lee Alligator Pie by Dennis Lee Selected Poems by W. H. Auden Collected Poems by W. H. Auden The Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Crush by Richard Siken Citizen by Claudia Rankine Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell