num_pages: 152
description: A selection of poems by the man described by the Globe &amp; Mail as "the greatest of our poets." Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets includes three decades' worth of thought-provoking work, including poems from the Governor-General's Award-winning The Cariboo Horses to Naked with Summer in Your Mouth.Purdy personally made this selection, assisted by Sam Solecki, the editor of Starting from The Collected Prose of Al Purdy . In these poems, Purdy ponders the remains of a Native village; encounters Fidel Castro in Revolutionary Square; curses a noisy cellmate in the drunk tank; and marvels at the "combination of ballet and murder" known as hockey, all in the author's inimitable man-on-the-street style.Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets is destined to become the standard Purdy poetry volume for many years to come.
language: English
title: Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996
titlecomplete: Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996
genres: Poetry, Canada
ratings_count: 191
publisher: Harbour Publishing