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The Best Canadian Essays 2009
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The Best Canadian Essays 2010
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INTRODUCTION When Ezra Pound recommended that “poetry should be at least as well-written as prose” he confirmed what every journalist, book reviewer, literary critic, and magazine writer already knew:...
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