Chronicling the struggle to put into words the horrors, insights, and tribulations that ultimately shaped a nation's character, this new/expanded edition (based on the original edition of 2001) presents both the major and "unknown" Canadian voices of World War I. Also contains a Preface, Foreword, Introduction, Afterword, Biographies, "Tommy's Dictionary of the Trenches" (A Lexicography), A Glossary, Selected Bibliography, and Questions for Discussion and Essays.
Chronicling the struggle to put into words the horrors, insights, and tribulations that ultimately shaped a nation's character, this new/expanded edit...
Barry Callaghan and Joe Rosenblatt, poets of perspicacity, pizzazz, and probity, have been combative, ecstatic compadres for over 40 years, with Callaghan donning an array of chapeaus, the man of belles lettres and hog flaneur-on-the-hoof from Smooth City, while Rosenblatt decades ago declared his unconditional allegiance to the buzzzers, chirpers, and purrers of the natural world, to remain at peace by his pond, aloof from the human horde. This most unlikely pair are conjoined by their shared dedication to the Word, to those rare moments of ascendent insight that are contained in bedrock...
Barry Callaghan and Joe Rosenblatt, poets of perspicacity, pizzazz, and probity, have been combative, ecstatic compadres for over 40 years, with Calla...