I Am Here and Not Not-there: An Autobiography"For some years before 2007, with editor Stan Dragland and Joan Eichner, her long time friend and editorial assistant, Margaret Avison had been working on her autobiography. After Margaret's death in July of that year, it was left to the two colleagues, drawing on their experience of collaboration with Margaret, to prepare her work for publication. So as to flesh out the sense of Margaret Avison, the person and the poet, they have shaped an appendix of essays, letters and interviews. The result is an augmented self-portrait by one of Canada's best and most revered writers, a woman of 'almost unparalleled humanity and humility' who lived for poetry both before and after the watershed experience of her life: her conversion experience of 1963." --Book Jacket. |
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Avison's descriptive prose makes her biography as riveting as a novel. A find!
Contents
Foreword | 7 |
Autobiography | 11 |
Beginning? | 13 |
Early Childhood | 15 |
Calgary | 28 |
Toronto | 45 |
Student Years | 68 |
Shortterm Jobs | 89 |
Letter to Miriam Waddington | 263 |
Letter to Cid Corman | 264 |
Letter to Cid Corman | 265 |
Letter to Miriam Waddington | 266 |
Letter to Eleanor Graham | 267 |
Letter to Eleanor Graham | 269 |
Letter to Miriam Waddington | 271 |
Poetry and the Doukhobors | 274 |
Jobs on Campus | 102 |
Escaping a Career | 122 |
Academia | 150 |
Evangel Hall | 164 |
London Ontario | 185 |
CBC Archives | 192 |
Mustard Seed Mission | 196 |
My Mothers Death and After | 207 |
Poets Learn From Poets Documents | 225 |
Cars 233 Space 233 Vanity | 233 |
Coming to Terms With Tolstoy | 234 |
Miriam Waddington | 255 |
Letter to Miriam Waddington | 256 |
Letter to Miriam Waddington | 259 |
Letter to F R Scott | 261 |
DependentDependant | 292 |
There are several writersinresidence | 293 |
Governor Generals Awards 1990 | 294 |
Interview with Cristina Cassanmagnago | 298 |
Ray Souster and the Contact Days | 303 |
Putting Computers in Perspective | 308 |
Clothes 310 Interview with Sally | 310 |
Letter to Burton Hatlen | 325 |
Interview with D S Martin | 327 |
On Xmas | 339 |
Slow Breathing | 342 |
Significant Dates | 345 |
Acknowledgments | 351 |
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