Quote of the day
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Al Purdy
Born: December 30, 1918
Died: April 21, 2000 (aged 81)
Bio: Alfred Wellington Purdy was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years.
Known for:
- Beyond remembering (2000)
- A splinter in the heart (1990)
- Poems for all the Annettes (1962)
- Reaching for the Beaufort Sea (1993)
- Rooms for rent in the outer planets (1996)