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The White Canoe and Other Verse

The White Canoe and Other Verse

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Number of Chapters: 15

Length: 32 minutes

Language: English

This early collection of Alan Sullivan's work is from the pen of a young Canadian author who portrays Canada's short Summer season as the voyage through a Summer of life in an allegorical "white canoe". During that voyage Sullivan shares with the reader his expressions of joy, loss, doubt, uncertainty and hope for a blissful conclusion. Sullivan's later career would embrace classic and unique depictions of the early development of his country, winning a Governor General's Award for his 1941 novel "Three Came to Ville Marie" (Sullivan's 1891 poem "Fifty Years Hence" included in "The White Canoe and Other Verse" seems curiously prescient in this regard). This selection of a nascent Alan Sullivan's poems makes an important contribution to the work of Canadian poets of this era. - Summary by Bruce Kachuk

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The White Canoe (Bruce Kachuk)
A Vision (Bruce Kachuk)
A Question (Bruce Kachuk)
Confession, Creed, and Prayer (Bruce Kachuk)
To My Pipe (Bruce Kachuk)
Supposing (Bruce Kachuk)
The Widower's Lullaby (Bruce Kachuk)
The Bird in the Night (Bruce Kachuk)
Nescio at Felix (Bruce Kachuk)
To My Indian Pipe (Bruce Kachuk)
Advenit Amor (Bruce Kachuk)
A Song of Life (Bruce Kachuk)
Voices (Bruce Kachuk)
Fifty Years Hence (Bruce Kachuk)
Farewell to the White Canoe (Bruce Kachuk)
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