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Author: Peter van Toorn
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Oct 2004
A Review of: Mountain Tea
by Zach Wells
For readers and writers of my generation, mention of the name Peter
Van Toorn was apt, until recently, to elicit a shrug. He was in the
audience of a poetry reading I attended in Montreal three years ago
and I hadn't the faintest notion that I was in the presence of an
original genius. None of his work was in print and his poems were not
to be found in any of the standard anthologies. But with Signal
Editions' re-issue of Van Toorn's magnum opus, Mountain Tea, all that
should change.
Originally published by McClelland and Stewart in 1984, Mountain Tea
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