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"A good biography — better, in fact, than what we have about Earle Birney and Gwendolyn MacEwen . . . Patrick Toner treats this rich material judiciously, sympathetically engaged but keeping his distance from the cultlike devotion Nowlan often inspired." * Globe and Mail *
"Patrick Toner's contribution to our appreciation of this rare and appealyingly hybrid creature is well worth the read." * National Post *
"A pleasure and a revelation. The melancholy but triumphant life of Alden Nowlan has found a perfect chronicler in Patrick Toner. This wonderfully readable biography assembles and clarifies all the elements of love, hate, resentment, and ambition that made up the personality and art of a fine Canadian poet." -- Robert Fulford

If I Could Turn and Meet Myself The Life of Alden

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      Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
      Publication Date: 01/05/2000
      ISBN13: 9780864922656, 978-0864922656
      ISBN10: 864922655
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      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "A good biography — better, in fact, than what we have about Earle Birney and Gwendolyn MacEwen . . . Patrick Toner treats this rich material judiciously, sympathetically engaged but keeping his distance from the cultlike devotion Nowlan often inspired." * Globe and Mail *
      "Patrick Toner's contribution to our appreciation of this rare and appealyingly hybrid creature is well worth the read." * National Post *
      "A pleasure and a revelation. The melancholy but triumphant life of Alden Nowlan has found a perfect chronicler in Patrick Toner. This wonderfully readable biography assembles and clarifies all the elements of love, hate, resentment, and ambition that made up the personality and art of a fine Canadian poet." -- Robert Fulford

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