> In a recent edition of Prairie Fire, David Arnason is celebrated
>(I guess that's what you'd call it) I've not heard of Arnason, my loss
>entirely I feel, could Doug and others tell the list more? Clayton
>Hansen (Lurker)
Clayton
definitely 'celebrated' & for many reasons. He's a writer in Winnipeg
Manitoba, a teacher, & publisher, & a man of much bonhomie. His plays,
short stories, & novels are funny, witty, often politially (in_correct in
the best possible way. As a poet, he's a mix, but has done some fine
things, not least a sequence from the point of view of a dog.
I'd think the issue gives a pretty good sense of his impact on many other
writers in Canada, especially the prairies.
a lovely person.
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
I chose poetry because every line set out
so hopefully from a new margin, and
because my heart was hot and unbowed.
Michele Leggott
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