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Author: Carmine Starnino
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Apr 2002
Adventures in Editing. Writers Series from Guernica
by Robert Moore
In 2001, with Sharon Pollock: Essays on Her Works (edited by Anne E. Nothof), Guernica launched the first title in its Writers Series. The number of titles has since grown to eight to include works on Caterina Edwards (Joseph Pivato), Louis Dudek (George Hildebrand), David Solway (Carmine Starnino), Aritha van Herk (Christl Verduyn) , P.K. Page (Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace), Adele Wiseman (Ruth Panofsky), and Alistair MacLeod (Irene Guilford). Read more...
| Aug 2001
 | The Cottage Builder's Letter
by George Murray
McClealland & Stewart
99 pages $16.99 paper
ISBN: 0771066724
|  | Credo
by Carmine Starnino
McGill-Queen's
52 pages $16.95 paper
ISBN: 0773519076
|  | Days into Flatspin
by Ken Babstock
Anansi
81 pages $16.95 paper
ISBN: 0887846580
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Out with Purdysim! Let the new poets sing!
by Derek Webster
AlPurdy was a mediocre poet, but his influence is seen in so many poets that his importance to our national literature is undeniable: whatever has happened so far, Purdy has been a part of it. I wish I had known Al Purdy, because he was, by every account, an incredible man. Still, part of me is not sad, for meeting him would certainly have made that much harder the task of distinguishing the man from his work. Read more...
| May 2005
 | A Lover's Quarrel
by Carmine Starnino
Porcupine's Quill $24.95 Paperback
ISBN: 0889842418
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A Review of: A LoverĘs Quarrel
by Asa Boxer
Opposition, we too often forget, is an important component of
democratic fair play. William Blake went so far as to proclaim that
"Opposition is true Friendship." The title of Montreal poet Carmine
Starnino's book of selected essays and reviews, A Lover's Quarrel,
bespeaks his desire to confront the establishment with serious dissent
(for its own good, of course). Starnino takes such a hard line because
he wants to provoke debate. In fact, he practically pleads for a
rejoinder in his Introduction, and does so not to pursue a "scheme for
victory", but in the hope that "a fair and open fight will produce, in
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