Literary Artists’ Statements

  • Douglas Barbour
    Lyric/Anti-Lyric: Essays on Contemporary Poetry. NeWest Press
  • George Bowering
    A Magpie Life: Growing a Writer. Key Porter Books
  • David Helwig
    Living Here. Oberon Press
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This review “Literary Artists’ Statements” originally appeared in Anne Carson. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 176 (Spring 2003): 111-114.

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