VOLUME 2, NO. 4 . OCTOBER, 1973
K.C.. IRVING: The Art of the Industrialist RUSSELL HUNTand RORERT CAMPBELL McClelland and Stewmt doth sags; 297pqger
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HUNT AND CAidPBBLL telI us that KC. Irving - at least as his ehaneter ; &monstrates itself through what he’s said and how his stupendous business empire has performed - has guts, tenacity, vindictiverles, a love of .._
::+ ( ..1 .- secrecy. a lust completely to own and telling us that a government must in- vealed enough so that Hunt and Camp- dominate every comer of bis corporate sist on the’ meeting of a deadline bell would not have felt impelled to structures, a passion for litigation, a “come helI or hi water”; or that tell us, 200 pages after their Preface, bighIy developed sense of local patri- somebody wanted to own something that Irving was still “this ipparently otism (which also happens to be highly “lock, stock and barrel”. Even some of uncomplicated New Bmnswicker who useful to himself), a profound capacity those- journalists who are reluctant so thoroughly defies comprehension.” for loud mom1 outrage, and far greater ever to call their work Art avoid tired (In any event, they did rely for in- interest tb& most businessmen have in expressions You get a little tired, too, formation. to some extent anyway, on objects such as gas pumps as opposed of wondering just how many ways Ralph Allen’s three-part series in to abstractions such as mathematical Hunt ana Campbell can milk their IKzcL%~‘J magazine back in the spring analyses. “Irving,” they write, “has “dinosaur” as a symbol of the Irving of ‘64, and ke certainly interviewed always felt more strongly about the power. people. About 200 of them, including specitic than the general, has always The authors’ preface betnys them K.C. Irving.) had the dirtiest hands around the coo- in other ways as well. It’s an intdguiog Still, I’m nitpicking a bit. Neither ference table.” and literate case for a certain kind of the pretensions of the Preface, nor the It’s great, at long last, to see bright journalism. It uses quotes from A 1cff& repetition of occasional ideas, nor the people combine a sense of irony and sununer Nigl&‘J Dream, and references failure to rework phrases, nor the sarcasm with social concern and relent- to Falstaff and Macbeth to defend the shortcomings of copy-editing come less research to give us not only a real- book’s method of presenting .‘a nom- anywhere near cancelling out the ly detailed account of the strange ber of characteristic incidents or as- general achievement of the book. It’s growth of the Irving phenomenon but pects of the development of that (II- good, and I’d lie to see a French also soma perspective on what it has ving) empire.. . We offer each just as edition for New Brunswick Acadians. all meant to New Bmnswlck. The ao artist offers an incident: as lnterest- authors are cynical about Irving’s self- ink in itself and also as part of a promoted image as a defender of New general portrait of a character.. . ” Brunswickers’ interests against greedy My quarrel here is not with the outsiders; his regional patriotism, they method, but with the quality of the suggest, has always served his own em- artistry. pire far more than it has helped im- As it happens, however, I have a prove tha disinal lot of a buga propor- quarrel with the method, too. Or per- tion of the people. haps it’s just a cavil. The Preface tells They are unfriendly then, but not us the authors gathered their informa- preachy about their unfriendliness. tion almost entirrlv- from .oublic re- THE FILMS OF They prefer lo prove rather than cords, because one of a journalist’s KIRK DOUGLAS moralize, and the book’s strength lies most important functions TONY THOMAS in the weight of its research into as- George J. McLeod Lki. sorted significant histories of Irving’s . . .is to stand as an example of tbc cloi, $11.50; iIlllstmte& 255 p@s fact that our univerrc isn’t incom- industrial triumphs. They also bring to prchcnsiblc, that it is possible by ap- the book a sort of horrified respect for plication t0 wmc to an under THE FILMS OF the qualities of character that enabled, standing of tbc most apparently earn- MARLON BRANDO plcx and confusing phcnomenr If Irving to create his unlikely corporate the jourqalist nrtrictr himself to TONY THOMAS “dinosaur”. s~urcc~ equally avrilrblc to cvcrycmc, Geo~@ J. McLeod L td hc sxws thal function betmr than if cloth $3.50: illustmtcd; 243 pages They tell us about these characteris- heacquircs privib?gcd information, in- tics quite a few times for so short a terviews important pcopk, cites book, however, and they do not re- anonymous sounx~_ and so iorth. AT AN OPENING-NIGHT party in When undclstanding arts% out of Iieve the repetition by finding new materials availabk to cwyonc, the Hollywood I was looking over another words to express what they themselves undcabmding is mom lihly to bc actor’s shoulder as he was trying to speedily turn into old pronouncc- seen, not as an illwnc pmccss which ingratiate himself with Kirk’ Douglas, is the special skill of a few, but II sn merits. Moreover, and particularly in ability which Ihc nzadcr hisclf who was one of our hosts. Remember- light of the Preface, the elieMs are ir- pcssCrW.% ing Mr. Douglas only from such films ritating. as 20,000 Lengues Under the Sea. The Preface says there’s “a .funda- It’s an interesting idea but it’s the Ulysses, The Vikings, and Spartacus~ I mental simil&Ity between art and the first time I’ve heard artist-journalists did not myself try to meet hi?, as I sort of journalism represented by this raising as a virtue the principle of re- felt I bad nothing to say to him. Yet book.. . The method of this book is fusing to talk to people to get infonna- from my vantage point, I noticed based on the assumption that the tion. It’s possible that, in Irving’s case, several rather surprising things about ,joumalist has far more in common no amount of interviewing would have the man, even taking into considera- with the poet than the sociologist.” g@en the authors much insight into tion that he was no doubt being as People who set themselves up as art@ts the man; it’s possible, too, however, charming as his importunate inter- should be particularly careful to avoid that interviews might just have re- 2 _-
WHEN VAL CLERY r&lied as editor proves that only 25% of our reviews VOL 2 No. 4 Oct. 1973 of Books in Chada after seeing the could be described as genemlly on- lest issue to press, the Canadian book- favourable. The implication that a editor publishing industry as a whole lost the responsible editor would deliberately continuing voice and counsel of a Dot&as Marshall order a. professional titer. to fffl his better friend than it often seemed to pen with add, and that a responsible associfz~c editor real&. val was a principal founder of .titer would comply, is of course a Jon Ruddy this magazine and the main creative double libel. Should that implication art director force behind its subsequent develop ever appear again in print, Books in Mary Lu Toms ment. Under his direction, we have Cam& will immediately take action - edimial a&tanf grown in 2% years frop an Intro. even though the defendants turn out Susan Traer ductory issue of 10,000 copies to a to be such an august body. as Ontario’s adverthg and business more-or-less regular publication with Royal Commission on Book- maw an’ average print run of 40,000. The Publish@. Robert Farrelly ,bulk of those copies are distributed Boohs in Chada will carry on, eonnrltant - free through some 450 bookstores despite the malice and despite the loss Jack Jensen across the country. Since we began, we of Vsl Clery’s courage, wisdom and have reviewed more than 730 books, unflagging energy. We may for a time Cmudian books every one, at least become a lesser’ magazine than he three thdes BS many as any other would have hoped. Incressed pro- public&ion in Canada during the same duction costs and sporadic adve.rGng period. revenue have forced changes - slim- I CONTENTS, In the come of our development mer but more frequent issues - that under W’s editorship, two mslicious will undoubtedly narrow.our editorial FEATURES and highly damaging canards about scope. We remain deeply grateful for Books in Canada were cirahed with the fmancisl assistadce of the Canada SuiherlandonBiie.yandFUrdy ...... 4 nlhaSpoken\vord ...... ll such frequency that in some quarters Council and the Ontario Gnmcil for series on Series ...... I6 they were gradually accepted as estab- the Arts. We are also cheered by the Roundup M Canadian Labour ...... 2 4 Femalepoetry...... 7 lished truth. The first suggestion ls approval expressed by a majority of REVIEWS that we are an inbred magazine de our readers, by the growing support K.C.IlVblg ...... l- pending on ‘a limited and repetitive fmm private and institutional subscrl. Filmsof Douglas and Brando ...... 2 cast of contributors. That is ignorant bcrs, and by the goodwill we detect in TheGirls...... ltfwmln ...... nonsense. One of our fundamental all but a few dark corn& of the lJ,@azed China ...... S purposea was - and is - to seek out publishing industry. Even so, our Mo,,odm,,,or ...... 9 DwidStio ...... 13 and encourage new book critics in future is by no means certain. Gameyncntey...... 14 Canada. As any experienced editor What is certaln.‘however, ls that OncCosmicInstant ...... 18 Anulrof the Firebaather ...... -21 knows, serving 1s a vehicle for appren- Books in Gmada would not have sur- Home Couhtty ...... 22 tice&p can be a risky business. In- vlved at all without the hupimtlon of ThheBookofEve ...... 2 3 ClyAyer ...... 31 deed, our quest for regional and intel- Val Clery’s tough-tided editorial lectual variety among our reviewers policy. The core of that policy, ham- has sometimes been at the expense of mered home like Cato’s “Delenda cst those standards of competence in re- ‘Carthage”, ‘is that Canadians at large viewing to which we naturally aspire. must be better served by this country’s But we are not ashamed of our record; book industry. More tbsn 120 different reviewers, “Books in Canada is a biased drawn from every province in the land, magazine:’ Val .wmte in one of his have written for us. At least a score of first editorials. He said we were biased those were appearing in a national in favour of Canadii books, Canadian magazine for the first time and per- readers and, most particularly, Cana- haps a dozen have since gone on to dian writen: “Books may be produced become regular contributors to other by publishers. but only the creativity Books in Canado is published 12 times per periodicals. of writers can make them more than annum by Canadian Review of Books The second canard, that our criti- by-pmducts of the forest indtitry.” Limited, 6 Charles St. East. Toronto M4Y lT2, Ontario. Szcond Class Mail - ReSistn- cism is too severe and that our re- For those who may be wondering, tion No. 2393. viewers tend to indulge in assassination we are still a biased magszine. 0 contents 0 1973 Canadian ReviewdBooksLfd. of authors for its own sake, is &ply RintedbyHuitaSeResCLtd. untrue. The most elementary research DOUGLAS MARSHALL. .__.. --.-_ .-. much si&ity and artistic craft - jailbird, miner, bulldozer-driver. they will somebow have to be said dif- policeman, professor - a perpetual BI RNEY’S ferently. Iie,is no different from most imposter. His past has been both poets in this regard; about the only picamsque and tragic; he’d lost his JOURNEYS successful political poems I’ve mad in wife to cancer. recent years have been Walter Bauer’s It turns out, as one might, have What’s So Big in The Rice of Mwning. guessed, that the poet’s pmfessor- About GREEN? If Bimey Is a solemn political com- friend is himself Pat. A trite storyline mentator he is also the mockingbird perhaps, but well carried out: the fire EARLEBIXhEY mimickii his own comic vicissitudes, leihnottw is superbly sustained. At the McClellan & Stenwt as io “cucamchas in fiji”. The poet? end Pat’s eyes are “flint and sparked cloth $I 95: mom is’ overrun by gigantic cock- witb fire.” One suspects ‘- though roaches with omnivorous appetites, perhaps it would-take an Australian to for micwed by Fraser Suthkrland the fodder in turn for the hotel- say sure - that Bfmey has photo- keeper’s reflections on BIatta orlen- graphlcally tlxed the Aossle psyche, t&s Half-French, “the logical halP’, done in his own art what the great THE CRITlCS of Earle Bimey who thts hotelier furnishes some ineffectual Russell Drydale did with paint and have decried his excudons into con: aerosol spray; noting: Camrag cute poetry wiU be comforted by his Ab it is o bwgumfy jc croir un Cha- latest coUectioa. :‘Although he uses tese - Grand Crux modish conventions like lower-case spelling and spatial punctuation, only - whht is their vin ordinairc yw ark one poem, “‘daybreak on Iake opal: PURDY’S ‘: high mckies”. even remotely resembles Or another hotel room, this one in the pictogmphs hb’s been drawing in Australia. A sick and shivering Bimey WORDY .: recent years. As far as that goes, his foolishly inquires about the possibility interest in concrete - which some bf obtaining a portable electric heater. have attributed to trendiness, or The clerk replies in vintage Strioe: SEX AND DEATH senility - hardly needs to be defend- II woa AL.PURDY ed. It is just another outlet for the qualities we find in this collection: MeClettand and Stewart clo~b S6.95, plrper $2.95: linguistic brilliance, a fertile talent for mimicry and satire, and ao unfaltering In Australia, too, is set “the gray curiosity. Like his fellow poet Al woods exploding”, a long narrative r&waiby Fraser Sutherland Purdy, he seems to have been every- poem that Biiney may intend to sue where - Australia, Fiji, Scotland - teed his much-anthologized “David”. THE PERIPATETIC poet is on the aud written about it_ He even has a footnote: “\Vaming to move again, swooping down on all the Bimey’s .poetic range is wide as all litemlati this poem’s story is an torrid places of the earth - South well, and this book offers great invention.” (After’ “David”, which Africa, Greece, Japan and Mexiw. In variety; he can write fme lyrtcs, every dealt with a mercy-killing, some liteml- Rome (“Temporizing in the Eternal word slotted into place, like “adagio”, minded readers assumed Bimey had City”) someone tries to sell hi a lot or the exquisite %iUaneUe”. French pushed his best friend off a cliff.) in Florida, using a good dinner as a &e-forms are notoriously difficult to “the gray woods exploding” has a bribe. “It saddened me to disappoint execute; the interwoven rhyme nearly looser wnstmction than “David” and the super-hucksters/but I .was dis. always produces a tortuous effect. But lacks its linguistic precision, but may appointed at the Hilton.” (One might hem is the first stanza and I’envoi of be a better work. It tells of the poet% ask why the poet was stayIog at the Birney’s poem: meeting the head of a university Hilton - to sponge dinners out of real . Engliil department in Australia who estate hustlers? But perhaps such What rho/t I do with alt my SC= your sun and n~oon hsvc set altgbt takes him to the local sight: Yemporizing” is the point of the till you will swim along with me? poem, a neat enough irony when, at ...... the same time, he stretches out his I divide alone and grope to see hand to an eternal Beatrice carved in wbnt salt and tidal things we might It was here, the poet’s guide says, that stone.) but EIUI”DI reach wfth all our sea “Pat”, a fellow professor, decided to Purdy’s poetry is lie a tossed salad. till YOU hove willed to swim witb me. leap from the cliff but turned back: In serving it to us his situation is some- I find Bimey least satisfying in his “Said it queered his pitch/not seeing what like Irving Layton’s. Layton asks political poems. If the same old safe ahead where he’d land.” The professor the reader to accept all his poetry liberal denunciations of American tells more about this Pat, and as he when what he really means is like it Intervention in Viet Nam, the atom tells, his London accent strips away to all. Purdy implicitly says the same bomb, and indusirisl pollution have to reveal the bedrock Strine beneath. thiog, only it is often said within a ’ be made - and he m’skes them with Pat’s been a bootlegger’s runner, a single poem. The poem is flat&t, 4 mawkish, maudlin and sublime by many. joys in this collection with the only a wt.+0 lost in the Canadian turns, and where the ironic tone is forbidding title. What we have come to budr . ti;h bm had nothing wrttten about fully in evidence it all seems to work know as the Purdy persona is tc be together: we accept. found everywhere: as Hokusai. (“Old except u#~en m4tunm Lwes dnfting Sometimes, though, the irony fails, Man Mad About Painting”); as the on the fonm We Elinrron letren which most often happens in the bumbling Stone-Age hunter of the bn- political poems. Some poets, Purdy pressiye “In the Foothills”; and, most Sermons in Ames. letters written on among them, feel obliged to compose frequently, as the poet-as-hiiwn- the water. El elegies and odes on what passes in our character. Each of these is fumbling. age as great state occasions - self- groping through windy rhetoric and appointed poet laureates. “Lament for taut imagery toward some realization. - GROUPOF Robert Kennedy” is Purdy at his Sometimes the realization is comic - worst: emptily rhetorical, full of stato- and Purdy can be very funny - some- tory compassion. “The Peaceable times m&cl, sometimes unashamedly , TWQ Kingdom”, written after the War lyrical, as in the lovely “Observing Per- Measures AL was invo,ked against the sons”. The tone here is quiet, medita- THE GIRLS FLQ, is better but it still wanders tive; those who observe lovers, he says REBECCA SISLER around trying to fmd what it has to Y Clarke Irwin , nay: that Canada’s innocence died. clothS7.95; 12Opa@r Political commentators said the same - thii; Purdy’s version is only a slight reyiEwd by Stephanie J. Nynich impmvement. That is not to say Purdy and do not understand It cannot write good political poetry; there a few moments of great power in Returning to Rome, and to that THB GIRLS were tw6 women sculp the Hiroshima and South African poem of rhetoric and the sudden per- tom, Frances Loring and Florence poems, though sometimes rather Feet image. The poet of “Tempo- Wyle. They were American-born but deeply buried. rizing” fmds biilf baffled by so lived and worked in TorMto from Having begun sourly. I don’t want much having been written about the 1914 to 1968, one dying three weeks to continue in this vein; there are Eternal Cily. 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6 , Frances Lorine stated. because they were attracted by the “youth” if Canada. In 1920 they bought a dere MERCY ONTH’i PEOPLE, lict &uch on Glenrosa Avenue and turned-it into a studio where they lived and worked until 1968. When you consider that their commissions RIVERRUN were few and far between, that the PETER SUCH Toronto winters were long and cold in Clark Inwit dotb $195; pages a large derelict church requiring much fuel to heat it adequately, that the cost of food and materials was high, reviewed by AI Purdy you have a setting against which to see WHEN EUROPEANS tint visited’ time the treatment by whites of two women dedicated to their art far Newfoundland, there were two native Baothuks can only be described as beyond the usual hardships imposed peoples living on the. island. The genocide, deliberate slaughter of an by lack of remgnition. entire race. To Frances Loring we owe thanks Dorsets, Eskimos of near-giant stature, occupied the northwest coastline, Peter Such’s novel aesribes the last for such massive statuary as the lion at Labrador and the Arctic regions. When 25 years of the Beothuks’ existence on the Toronto entrance’ to the Queen Norse landings occurred in the, 10th earth. Reduced to near-starvation, Elizabeth Way and the figure of Sir century, the Dorsets fought these pale- they, wandered between the interior Robert Borden on Parliament Hill. Be- skinned invaders of their island. Five forest lands and sea coast seeking sides sculpting, she participated in the hundred years later the Dorsets had food, their balanca of survival destmy- “politics” of the art world, serving on disappeared entirely,, to be succe6de.d committees, giving lecture tours and ed and probably all hope as well by the Thule people, and later by Lkmasduit (whom the whites c&d writing articles. After 54 years of modem Eskbnos. Them are several Mary March), Shawvnaditbit (who was sculpting in Canada, Florence Wyle’s also Nancy), Nonoaabasut her huk first major exhibition was given by theories to account for their disappear- ance, in&ding clbnatic change and band, and others of the last score or so JackPollock in 1968. another wave of Eskimo emigration of “The People” distractedly search When she submitted “Sea and from the West All that really remains for a way to go on living. Shore”, one of her last sculpt&. to of the DorJets are delicate ivory carv; A novel with such a theme, ihe the Art Gallery of Toronto for exhibit ings and some ancient weapons and death of an entire people, inevitably in 1965, the jurors turned it down. tools. They am gone, and no one takes on some of the dignity and inter- Rebecca Sisier speculates: “Perhaps knows precisely why. est of the theme itself. Part of the the self-assertion of the new, more The Beothuks, an Indian people of na.+ive is w&ten in a contiiual pm- vigorous art expression allowed no lge’stature, were also native to New- Sent tense, has a lyric quality, to some place for the old.” It would be in- foundland. 19. Hawley presents extent a timelessness. Nonosabasut in teresting now to view this sculpture; it nearly. all the known information his starvation fantasies turns himself embodies in the form of a woman, about them in his book. 7Fre Bee- into snow and birch trees. The salmon- Florence Wyle’s search to portray the mn up the Exploits River is archetypai feeling that “the tide corns in snd the thuk$ published in 1915. l&y too are extinct, but this time the reason is among hunting peoples, and is vivid tide goes out but the sea and the shore known. Shawnadithit, last of her race, here in recreation. And since legend remain.” To date I have been unable died in 1829, captive of the white has it that women were treated very to locate its whereabouts. The vigour and strength of these men. gently in the Beothuk culture, when two women, who overcame both the From the time of earliest white one of these woman bares her breasts settlement, fishermen and trappers hardships of being women and of before whites to show that she is a being artists, takes on the proportions hunted down ‘the Beothuks, killed woman and thus avoid being murder- of the heroic. My only criticism of the tham by ones and twos and dozens, ed, the bicident has a peculiar poig- book is that it is far too short. able later murdered tham by hundreds at a nancy. Of course she was slaughtered only to touch on the profound human- place called Bloody Point, a name anyway. found on no modem maps. Early in ity and compassion of two magnificant, I lii the novel’s ending particularly: brave women who will’ no doubt the 19th century, white authorities Shawnadithit, who war left behind occupy eventually the place in the grew alarmed at the indiscriminate slaughter; several times they sent with nonc to sing for her at the hour history of sculpture that they deserve. of ha own death. W&I wnt un- To quote Jack Pollockz “Florence emissaries seeking friendship with the remembered. thehstofThhe People in Indians. But these “peaceful” expedi- the whole bit land of ihe long takes Wyle and Frances Loring were to and the rpeakily riven that mn to sculpture in Canada what tba Group of tions ganemlly resulted in more kill- the sea forever, bearing no lowr the Seven were to painting. 0 ings, one of them in the capture of a living People through the frogback young woman named Demasduit and rapids, bang only the dead IPAWS Stephanie J. Nynych. who last year the murder of her husband when he of the woods in auhnnn. Liston, published the autobiogmphiml. . . mother. Listen. This is whcm the and like i see it, lives in Toronto. attempted his wife’s &cue. By this riverrun ends 7 -- --_.-. _. _.__ ._ ._
\ such’s novel seems to me a.gemline their arrogant hearts they fear for their achievement, going some distance be- breed in the face of the yellow man’s yond the power of its theme, a co”- inexorable fecundity. veyancing of the lives of the dead to Even today, though we have been the minds of the living. At times the slightly cabned by the +ixo”ian oresent-tense device. short sentences. rapprochement with China, the old re- flexes die hard. and any story is to be troublesome to the ear. But that is a welconxd that presents a sane, bal- CORNELIUS KRIEGHOFF minor cavil. The fading picture of a anced view of china to the average Hughes De Jo”“a”m”rt people disturbs the mind with its tran- In the history of mt there is no artist .white Caucasian. who contributed more m establishing sience and approaches splendour. One of the growing band of travel- painting In Canada .than Cornelius And living in Vancouver in 1973 is Krieghoff. lets who have returned from China The pages of tbb beautiful book a young woman I know whose blood is with the material for a book is Pm- trace the artkt’r career stepavble~, one tenth Beothtik. So perhaps in the thread of his perronallt~, his u”. fesaor J. Two Wily~. the disthguii- conventional, sincare and engaging some tenuous way the tragic race ed Canadian geophysicist, who was a personality with a carefully re- searched and written text all en- remains alive, the small ghost in the guest of the Chinese government in hanced with 49 hand-tipped full body of another person carried for- 1958 and again in 1971. The diary of adour mprodunions and 121 black and white photographic repmdue ward in time. And perhaps there are his latest journey has bee” published tions of his work. others. 0 under the odd title Ungkzzed C%imz With the longawaited publication of this outstanding volume - the first Professor Wilson’s book poses as a Al Purdyr latest collection of poems. complete biography of Cornelius cool and placid account of his threb Krieghoff - Canada’s premier artist Sex and Death, is reviewed on page 4. of the nineteenth .c.enW’y. achiever week visit, hot also it cleverly con* thehey&a.cn which he wtlv de- trives to cast many fascinating side- liits on realities behind the Bamboo Curtain. jMUQ%BN SOOTHING Dr. Wdson has the true reporter’s BOOK COMPANY gift of noting the signifwt detail, A olvlalon Of WILLOW and thereby building a strong bnpres. 90 LegmIll Road. Don Mills. Onteh sion of reality. However, in its overall design and purpose the book seenu to !PAnERNS falter. In parts we are &en a cliarmi”g travelogue and mouth-watering gastm- UNGLAZED CHINA “tic tour; concealed withi” this is a textbook that could be en- J. TUZO WILSON titled “A” Elementary Introduction to Satu&y Review Press the Geology of China” (I now know, cloth $9.9* 336 page, for the first tie in my life, what a “Graben” is); and interspersed nwewcd by Richard Lubbock throughout is a grab-bag of intelligence misce8anea of little interest to anyone THE wEsTEBNER’s retlex response except a CIA evaluator. For example, QUEBEC what is the ieader to make of the fact BIRDS OF ATLANTIC PROVINCES to China is epitomized by the chilling SlRCS OF ALBERTA. SASKAT- arithmetic of Ripley’s famous Believe that “We also saw sn absolute incline- CHEWAN B MANITOSA meter made by Askanii. Bambergwerk David Hancock and Jim Woodford It OrNot item, headlined “The March- Almos, 200 photographs and nearly & Chinese”. The text states that “if No. 572144, and ~II
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. There is the same prosy, wiIf@ily anti- poetic tone (with the odd lyrical flight thrown in to prove he could if he SELVES wanted to); the same self-conscious tongue-in-cheek’ detachment, or the I CONDEMNEC tough shell and tired sigh, the modern romantic’s bodyguards. DAVID STERNE The poems sound bloodless when he reads them - not that all poets MARIE-CLAIREBLAIS must be great actors, or even fully (tmnslated by DA PID LOmELL) understand what they’ve written. But McClelland and Stewrt you’d think that if the experience that cloth S& 95; % wgcr led to the poem had been honestly lived, and faithfully recorded, that the nviewd by Beverley Smith reading wmUd project a small part of British Columbia: the passion. The readingsounds sincere IN THIS BOOK, published in the cuigi- A Pictorial Record 1778-1891 (no, he’s not putting us on), bttt not nal French in 1967, Marie-Claire Blais by Charles de Volpl totally faithful to “the original”. (Can Fontinues her use of the poetichovel A handsome volume superbly he really be that coy about his“genius”? form initiated with La Belle B&e in illustrated with reprc+ Is he re@~ being ironic? Dols he really 19.59. The form, an amalgam of her ductions from contemporary feel so ho-hum about money, so passive accomplished poetry and the pure woodcuts. engrawngs and and plaintive - or doesn’t he some- prose of such a work as Une Salson lithographs. Facing each is times want to scream?) dans In vie d’Emnumuel (1965), con- a descriptmn taken verbatim This is, of course, a record about. sists of loosely-organized sections .of from a pubhcatmn of the day. Ontario, about the places and people prose alternating with free-form verse.‘. 290 pages 184 illustrations the poet has seen, where he’s been and Livid Steme, however, leaves the 528 75 what he’s done for a large part of his reader with the distinct impression life. But listen to the tone - there is that this marriage of prose and verSe is no feeling of place. Robbin Lake and an uneasy one, and that Mile Blais her- LONGMAN CANADA LIMITED Amelianburg, in the end, are little self is uncertain in which genre to con- 55s&rGrSW?M,+ons~onurio more than occasions for poems. If any tinue. life went into the writing df the living Even the characters and themes of of these names, the reading is .a riddle Lbid Steme seem mildly annoying BESTSELLER LIST of silence. and repetitious to a reader acquainted 1. SURFACtNG The performance, when not mlf- with Mile Blais’ earlier works. Margaret Atwood conscious, mds to be snlipsistic: that The rebel anti-hem who indulges in quiet mumble of a man talking to him- the first-person monologue of the self. There is none of the electridty of novel’s early sections takes on, this an involved, dynamic performance;. time, the character of a thief. An out- not a spark of genuine communica- law from society and from the proper tion. ‘upbrbtging he has received at the We realize as we listen the agony of hands of middleclass parents and the artist today: the loss of the sense well-meaning seminarians, David has, of audience. (Are you out there? as comrade in vice and crime, .a friend Where? Who are you?) There is no named. Michael Rameau who even- easy way out, some will struggle and tually ends his life by jumping from 7. A CHOICE OF ENEMIES fall, gone crazy on their echoes. A few the seminary’s bell-tower, in a public Mordecal Richlar may “have it made” - and know who act of self-destruction. 8. 1 THE MOON’S A BALLOON their people are. Most will have to take Another “spiritual” companion, a ! David Niven the bull by the tail before getting a student activist by the name of 9. HOCKEY SHOWDOWN half-decent reach for the horns: their Fran9ois Reine, sets himself fatally on Harrv Sinden 10. AN ANSWER FROM LIMBO own self-consciousness. More time and fire, disillusioned with life and the ElIan Moon, effort spent on reading and per- state of the world around him. Bach of formance skills (that is, concern for the three is, in his own way, a martyr- their longed-for ideal audtence) would feure who masochistically revels in be a strong beginning. 0 self-torture and tlie final, definitive Kelly IVRde, who came to Canada act; each refuses to accept the com- /mm his native Buffalo five yVarr ago. promise of living in a decaying world GENERIL PUBLlSHlNG co. L,M,rED Ir at present worktw on both (I novel that fdls him with disgust and horror. 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills. and the journal of a long winterk exile Unforhmately, such an obsession in Grand Bend. with sickness, disease and self- 13 ~______. -~ .-..--_ -.. destruction seems characteri5tic, not Her command of the French lan- only of MU6 Blais’ writing, but of that guage is most apparent in the sections of many of her Quebec contempo- of poetry. ln the passages that sing the A FAN’S- nri65 66 well. exploits of her hero, she attains a pitch Moreover, the seminary setting of of lyricism that is reminiscent of the NOTES David S&me with its stilling routine, biblical psalms. At other moments, the its perverted “spiritual advisors”, and “cage” images and the powerful, GARNEY HENLEY: A its vice-ridden inhabitants - interest- mood-creating irocabulary set the lng as it may be - has already been background of “entrapment” against Gentleman and a Tiger dealt with by Mile Blais, at some which her anarchic hero lashes out. ROBERTF. MELSEh length, in Une .Won dam k vie The brittle effect of certain sentences Potlatch Publimtions d’Etnmenaef Its inelusion, tl?, in seems to echo the cold violence of pwer $3.95: iUmnued: 188 9agz.s Devid Sleme seems somewhat soper- David’s self-derision. as in: “The - fluous, if not overdone. threads of my life snap beneath the reviewed by Jack Hurchinson Dialogue fragments, in broken rusty blade of my laugh.” verse, of the voices of the ‘“Just” call- Combining the best and worst as- SO MANY football books in the last ing David to order, are interspersed pects of Ma&-Claire Blais’ philosophy ! few years have threatened or promised with his monologue, as the priests, the and style, David Srerne is s work that to expose the evils of the game: drugs, various members of David’s family, the can, I think, be considered very re- crazy sex, racism, authoritarianism, judge who tr@s him for theft and rape, prese‘ntative of her writing - with all and financial skullduggery. But Robert and his women friends all try 6 reason its contradictions and complexities. 0 F. Nielsen is no LaVerne Barnes, Dave with him and lead hlm back to tbe Meggyesy, Bernie Parrish, or even Mel path of righteousness. Profit. In Gamey Henley: A Gentle- Despite the many weaknesses Dmrid man and (I Tiger, he has written ao S&me reveals, it also confirms those old-fashioned fan’s book. positive qualities of Mile Blais’ writing Now in sayiog that, I have no wish . to sneer at Mr. Nielsen or his book,
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ting either Gamey Henley or his (sometimes incredible) accomplish- ments on bihalf of the Hamilton TigerCats. I suspect Mr. Nielsen is a fan himself. But I am wondering who would . ,want tb read the book besides the football freak, the dyed-in-the-wool TiCat booster, the people we suspect of wearing black-and-gold underwear year round and of only half-living between football seas&s. Who else would have the slightest interest in the details of long-forgotten high-school basketball games between the Hayti Redbirds and such other powers as the Waobay Dragons and the White River Tigers - even ln an event as pm* tiglous as the South Dakota State Class “B” Hii School Championship Tournament? ’ I-ismilton, of course, appears to be a city of football junkies, and it is even possible that enough of them can mad to care about all those obscure games worth remembering - if they are to be remembered at all - dnly because AVhAaSLE AT: i Gamey Henley once played In them. Anyway. Nielsen tells the complete Henley athletic story - in sometimes tedious detail - for those who are in- terested. It is all here, and more: in- cluding summaries of all Henley’s seasons with the Ti-Csts since 1960; ivhat appears to be a transcript of a taped conversation between Henley and his wife; and, to my mind the most interesting section of the book, a chapter entitled “Wlmt It’s Really Like Out There”, which seems to have been written or dictated by Henley himself. Them are tributes from team-mates, rivals, coaches, and sportswriters; and fin letters from children. girls, adults and George McGovern. In short. what we have. here is Garney Henley’s athletic scrapbook, reworked i@ a nice little book that will undoubtedly appeal (as I’ve said) to the fan. There are more than two dozen psgees of pictures, most of them exwl- lent. The typography and layout are attractive. Need I add that it’s already a best-seller in Hamilton and district.
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In the common mrth md air, ‘Then as now, voices are .heard with In riI.2 pen, and in the sad& individual accent (Lampman, Layton, In the hyw3p ml Lhe w%l& Carman. Klein - not one of them sitr . SERIES 0 In the wmdmbzgAmb~r!ent, In the b&woods rettlernent; on the ventriloquist’s knee).” Have w buut the hearing ear. Carman is “a lyrical impressionist It Is alwys tiiqvba.g near, whose Image4 pmjyct ecstatic feeIt&. lime we but dxe heart m/ccl tt, NEW CANADIP. AU the world will reveal IL Try as I may, I just can’t stomach’ -Alexander !dcLachlan, l7z.z Em&rant (1861) Such awoo@g stuff as Carman pro- duces in Sot& ~?om Viabond& The IF IN THE world of letters, book Gmen Book of the Bat&, Songs of the reviewing is only one cut above v&ii Sm Children and Sappho. From “The ad copy, at least the compensations Duncan .CambeU Scott, an Ottawa Joys of the Open Road”: provided by each of these two lowly native, remained in the city he thought trades am wh+Iy dlfferent. Copy- A~stwofwhewlthoneye/br. “too bright for guile, too young for msld.. writing pays welL Book reviewing Never too boId, and never &id, tears”, to become an administrator fmagles you into perusing material you Never hcrwt-tide, never heart&k, with the Department of Indian Affairs. would otherwIse never have read, (l%;twre the rirbags I wmship PI Of hi poems reproduced in his MI- -: guides you to what Is aoeient or re- “me, it is those set in the forests and in condite or unfashionable, and boll& Portunately, the work of Carman’s the tipi villages that are most succe= you into acknowled@ng its often con- cohorts is ma& of tougher stuff. fd. “On the Way to the Mission”, siderable worth. Result: paycheques Roberts, born in 1860 in New for the heart and wits. BmnswIck, has a painter’s eye and the Take the NCL’s “Poets of Canada” pure reltgtous feeling of an acolyte. In series. SpecifIcally, the volumes titled “The Sower”, he describes the mea- Poets of the Confe&mtion and Ni& sured stride and heavy face of a stolid teent/&rllu#y Nmhiw Poems un- farm labqurer, but coneludes: “This invitingly packaged in the familiar plodding churl grows great in his em- NCL manner, overpriced when com- ploy - /Godlike. he makes provision pared with similar U.S. anthologies, for mankind.” Even some of Roberts’ pmmismg page after page of Bliss titles make miniature poem*. “In the Carman and Isabella Vabmcy Crawford Wide Awe and Wisdom of the Night” (who?), they appear no more appeal- and “When Mary the Mother Kissed ing than athlete’s foot. crack them the child” are somehow medieval in open, though, and your indifference is rhythm and diction and function in undone. You are disarmed by the the same way as Malcolm Lowry’s poems themselves. “Hear Us 0 Lord from Heaven Thy &SC** Dwelling Place”. Archibald Lampman, born a year Poets of the Confederation, later than Roberts; graduated from Edited by Malcolm Ross; Trinity College, University of Toronto, 130 page& $1.50. became a clerk in the Post Office Around the time Sir John was building Department, and died in his 39th year. his railroad, other men were ham- He crafts his poems with an excellence mering wordspikes, @ing tracks of at once more truly inspired and mom their own across this unknown coon- disciplined than any of his three con- try. Tlfe best of them were the four temporaries. Here is the concluding whose wodc is represented In this stanza of Lsmpman’s*‘The Frogs”: volume: Charlee G.D. Roberts, Blii Carmao, Archibald Lampman and Duncan CampbeU Scott. AU four are thought to owe too much to the methods and habits of mind of better poets in ot+ places. LabeUed “The Maple Leaf School” of llmt change and paIn are dmdowr Canadian poetry, thejr are disparaged falnl and&et, and ignored. Yet, as Malcolm R-s sug- And dmnnr an? ?eaI, and IIfe ic only gests in his introduction to .tis vol- rwt. ome, they borrowed no more fmm Though his poetic techniques are those their exemplars than our newest poets of another century. Lampman’s self- do from Eliot, Auden and Robert questing persona stiU intrigu us, his Graves. Nor are they any less unique: ideas and images sttll attract. I6 __ -_-_iA._ .L_..
each human ill”, and the teacher, “some poor wanderer of the human N SERIES race.,/ Unequal to the task.. . Whose greatest source of knowledge or of sklll/Consish ln reading, and in writing \N LIBRARY -PART3 171”. Howe’s Acadia limna the. New World in rhyming couplets, while c Bickerstaff Sang&r, as every epic writer shouid, devotes two stanzas to wooing his . IllUSe. ‘nlee Forsaken”, “Night Burial ln the It’s interesting to fmd Kirby’s ap Forest”, and “At Cull Lake: August, praisal of Toron@ so similar to one’s All t+ga c+idered, three good poets own: 1810” are sombre songs of tomahawk out of four is more than you can death and ritual tragedy. This segment reasonably expect from most antholo- There, L&l&m holds her high de- . from “At Gull Lake” is reminiscent of gies. The collective, achievement of bate; some of Michael Ondaatje’a latter-day And Ftrcdom stan& the guardIm~ of Roberts, Lampman and Scott, those the state; grotesqueries: lyric gandy-dancers, is quite as im- pressive still as the railway, now so heavily subsidized, Sir John bult. l ****.
Toronro’sgl~.ous deslbly k errr,; Nineteenth Centary As for McLacblan, his pioneer history Narrative Poems is peopled with a gallery. of stalwarts Edited by David Sinclair; and rogues: “There was doubting 190 page, $2.50 John, the teacher,/Spouting Tom, Herein, six long narratives: Oliver nicknamed the preacher&eneral Goldsmith’s TheRising Vlllege (1834), John, the mechaolcianJLe.an lank Joseph Howe’s Aced& (1874). Charles Tom, the politiclan,/I_azy Bill, the bad Sangster’s The St. .Lewence and the news brlnger,/Little Mac, the jocund Sawway (1856). Wliliam Kirby’s The singer. There was Aleck, the divine,/ 11.6: A Tale of UpperGnmde (1859), Bristly as the porcupine.” _ Alexander McLachlan’s The Emigrant Before I read it, I’d always imag- (1861). and Isabella Valancy Craw- ined Malcolm’s Katie to be @e auto- ford’sMalco~m’J Katie (1884). biography of a mule. But no, it’s a love “The poets here,” David Sinclair story, a variation on the eternal triao- tells us, “all felt the pentecosti urge gle theme, involving Katie and her two described .bj. Bishop Mountain; the suitors, Max and Alfred. And it’s ex- reaction to the new land, its challenge, citing stuff: its beauty, its inhabitants and their institutions must be voiced above the roar of cataracts, the whoop of sav- ages, the wild beasts’ cries, even the busy hum of the rising cities.” Most of them strive to express the Canadian On~~,vhin rior of due waus piopeer experience in epic terms, to The fw of Alfed, cdm, &h dose+ stress the heroic in man’s daily activi- sed’d eyes, ty. In this unheroic age, when Beowulf designs computers and Sir Gawain sells real estate, these innocent narratives are a delight to read. Who is Malcolm, then? Why, he’s The best of them, to my mind, h Katie’s father who, by poem’s end, sits Malcolm’s Katie Yet each of the on Max and Katii’s trelliSed porch, others has sufficient charm to sustain “Upon hi.3 knee a little smiling cbllb’. the reader’s interest through several NineteenthCentury NomrtivePoemP pages of veme. Goldsmith, for in- is no moie expensive than your average stance, is occasionally satiric, as when first-run movie and I guarantee it’s he describes the “half-bred” village quite as entertaining. Besides, you can doctor who %res, by chance, or ends pass it along to a friend. 0 17 _. _. --.. . ~_
Can mankind find room on the fective until the whales, too, are gone. TOA planed It is known that overcrowding The signs all point to a cosmic among animals causes stress and severe instant when man may soddenly be mental disorders. However, man - made aware he has exceeded bis ability FULLSTOP . with his superior intelligence? - can to cope with forces io the universe he perhaps overcome tbis threat. has never understood. If that tie ONE COSMIC INSTANT But will there be food enough? Will comes, it may be Rangoarok for the life be worth living’on an overcrowded race of’homo sapiens. JOHN LIVINGSTON6 @be? Already smog, air nod water la John Livingston optimistic about &ci&mia?ldstewar~ pollution have reached frightening man’s chances? No one can call him cloti $7.95: 243 we8 levels io the great industrial cities. In mealy-mouthed. I quote him again: the southern United States the falling “Vasectomy - male sterilization - is water table is disquieting. suggested as the best contraceptive Only a scant year ago the vast her- device. It is not very encouraging, THB MOST fiightenklg fact io the ring fi*ery that was the mainstay OF however, on the basis of a little mental world today most sorely be the ex- Iceland’s economy ceased to be; the arithmetic. Generally, the operation plodii population of homao beings. herring were gone. Today Iceladd ap- takes about half an hour. An eight- John I%n#on quotes f-a: “From peals to the United Nations to keep hoor day, with an hour off for lunch, an absolute maximum of perhaps 10 other fishing nations outside 4 SO-mile represents 14 vasectomies per surgeon million during Pleistocene pre-history, - limit w that she may survive. Britain, per day. A team of three surgeons, the numbers of people jumped to at in turn, sends armed warships to con- working around the clock on eight- least 50 mi8ion by da&al times,. . voy her own trawlers into the cod- hour shifts, could perform 42 opera- by the time of Ciirlst. to between 200 fishing waters off Iceland’s coast, tions per day. Let us imagine further a and 300 miluon...By x.50... defying the threats and pleas of the clinic with 10 operating tables and 30 about 500 mi8ion . . . By 1890 we had Icelanders, since Britain’s own econo- surgeons. and our count comes to 420 reached our first b88oo.. . Today we my is hurting. sterilizations per day. Assuming no stand at approximately 3.1 bi8ion. By The world popliiation of whales holidays or days off for this’dedicated 1980 (world popoIaUon) could easily shrinks yearly under the onslaught of team, we come up with 153,300 be 6,000,000,000.” the whalers; policing may not be ef- operations per year. How maoy clinics
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Photographs - 220 pager - 57.95 humoumus, biting, inside look at the life 120 pager- $2.95 1paperl;$7.95 fclothl. of a “Goliath In a wrld of Oavids” -a munforvomkns. Forwphotwraphr- 2!%?~apn-$6.96 of 30 surgeons would be needed to, take care of even one tenth of the world’s estimated 1&50,000,000 males? Man has already exceeded the “carrying capacity” of planet Earth for his species, and in so doing he has crushed the life from species that, in JOHNSON’S the Pleistocene, were his brothers. BOOK SERVICE There has been a breakdown in homeostasis. Despite the brash con- fidence of those who promote agricul- 9 HILL PLACE TELEPHONE tural technology and the “Green Re- STONEV CREEK,,ONTARIO 662-6@2 volution:’ and despite the best in- tentions of those who call for the re- BOOKS FOR distribution of wealth and food, COLLECTORS MAIL-ORDERBOOKSBRVICE nothing is working: STUDENTS Direct To You At In his historic addnss to the United INBTITUTIONS Nations in 1965, Pope Paul said (in ON ARMOUR BARGAINPRI@S tmnslatioh): “Your task is to ensun WEAPONS “Post-Paid” lbat btwd is sufliiiently abundant on MILITARIA tbc table of humanity. and not lo ARTS & CRAFTS fwour arlifici”l wnlml of births, HOBBIES Pleaie Write For Our whiih would be irrational. in order to ANTiQUEB FREE C4TALOGU.S diminish tbe number of guests al lhc CANADIANA D banquet of life.” Life in under- AMERICANA privibzged eounlrtcs is no banquet. His H”Sncss notwilbstzading. Also, no banquet was ever crashed by a babe in arms: it is seared into my memory that the dying Cuatemalan infant did not ask to be them. Not light-hearted reading, this book of Livingston’s. . . but a- book full qf disquieting thoughts, of provocative insights into a more foreboding cosmos than we usually .aUow our- selves to think about. How else than with apprehension can one read a paragraph such as this: STEAM BOATS llu hope for su~ival of nonhumvl nahm is dim. There is a familiar xenario. AS mndillons worsea for ON THE human populations - as tbcy will,. i&ially. in underprivileged parts of SASKATCHEWAN SRilCRPREL lbe world - way mmcc and erg of The fit book wv know of rm a sub&t seldom mentkmed in western bislozy WI m”sl Mined technological skills books?There really were P number of unwieldy sbamboats plying the shalbxv and energies will be bmught into play Snskatcbcwan River in lbe last decades of ule 19lb century.. . canyhg plpplies 1” extract fr”m Earth and its non- and settlers, even lroOps for lb” R&l RebellIon. Author Bruce Peel has nseacbed human inhabilanls the basic in- his atbjecl with dedication and the payoff is a fvcinating hlstoty, ilkmtmted with gadienls for human survivc4. \Ve will caretWty+epmduced old maps and photos. 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“. 1n . this unusual autobiography, HOT OFF Home traces bis own progress out of the drunk tanks, the harsh reality of sleeping rough in skid-road doorways, THE TOP_ mooch&g and stealing to stay alive, to the relative success and stability of ANNALS OF THE headlining a night dub act, and wait- Nature ‘74 - FIREBREATHER ing for the diaper service to call. In Marcel Home there lives some- A Canadian Calendar IVARCEL HORh’E thing of Matthew Arnold’s Scholar Nature ‘74 is a month-by-month Peter Martin Associates Gypsy. You remember the poor Ox- portfolio celebrating the beauty of cla:h $895; 180m~s ford student who abandoned his fel- Canadian nature /individually lows, wallowing in the sick hurry and boxed for mailinglS3.95. reviewd b.v Howard Engel dlvlded aims of modem life, and went descdbes, and smell the camies as they Newman under a bright light and de- set up for another batch of Okansgan mand to know what the hell he is talk- fakers. What I mean is, Marcel Home ing about. If Bourassa is really that has written a remarkable book that has skinny, why is it incongruous that his ,. .-. come out of a remarkable life. Reba Adam’s apple sticks out? Why has reba undalay! Walk up! Walk up!, Newman -repeated the adverb? Are Mousey, mousey, mousey! It’s all real nuns more sensitive than anybody and all on the inside! 0 else? If so, v&at is the proof of it? Or is Newman flirting with sarcasm, How&d Engel, II reformed hitchhiker. suggesting that nuns are insensitive? CANAJAN El-l? ir the executive producer of two CBC Mark M. Orkin radio ~?omm~sabout the arts. What is this man trying to say? Tha outRanding and brilliant new One reads the book like a man book from Mark Orkin defining in hilarious tamu many of Canadds plunging through a swamp, eyes fixed most Iwed and mvered. most talked upon the farthcr shore.. Why arc our and laughed about irdtltutlons, people, national heroes and history. PETER AND 1 political wrlter~, with the exception Aswtding to Orkin it% quite simple of Bain, so humourlesa, so relent- to spot a Canadian anqwhers - even lessly pedestrian? Why can’t some in a crowd of Amadcar. (Man Cansl THE WORD - just linen! You will hear the Can* sprightlier pen take up the valid cause dian talkin a peculiar lanpuape. It’s called Canajan. The reader is aI= of Canadian nationalism before its treated to a hilarious sidelong view Of HOME COUNTRY: present champions drive us into the Canada’s hlnorical fiiures lika SHAM PLANE and SIR JOHN EH and PUI People, Places and arms of the Americans out of sheer tirhuns lika the SOAK REDS - and boredom? irreverently illustrated bv laa~ Power Politics Sickerstaff. “In ona fall book Mark In his foreword, Newman describes M. Orkin has presented us tha DIIP”Q PiT.ER C NEWWAN Home Counhy as “the chronicle of a of a national literature - a natifmal lsnguqs, - “al Clery - Books In McClelland & Stewi-t political education.” What he has Canada 51.95 doul$ z.95; ?d4 pn9.z learned is “not tp believe in magical leaders any more.. .” Good God! Nor was this “insight” easy for the editor of our national magazine’ to grasp. THE FIRST, and almost the last, time The Newman techoique has been to set I met Peter C. Newman, he, told me up “magical leaders”, then knock them that Arthur Hailey was the greatest down;his career is largely based on the Canadian writer. Having got through gradual displacement of unbounded en- Newman’s own collection of magazine thusiasm by weary diiillualonment. and newspaper articles, I can see that “What happened to the magic?” he Hailey has influenced him. Styli+. quotes ‘Canadians as asking of tically, Peter Newman might almost be Trudeau. “Or more important, what described as the Arthur Hsiley of happened to the man? Did he ever Canadian journalism. possess the qualities we endowed him There is the intricate but always with?” It is typical of Newman that he predictable narrative. There are the foists his own naivete on us all. trite figures of speech that make this Newman’s ~success is the result of LOVE LElTERS To 5ARUCH prose so much worse than plain - his assiduous cultivation of highly Margaret Lauvrenee Gresne Newman’s apartment towers must placed personal contacts, determined In an ago wfwa lws hsr bsan re ducad to a phYsialrpasm. a” ephem “stab the sky”. There is the irritant of reportorial sniffing and, most of all, sral emotion of the moment. few Will self-indulgent Time-isms, usually ever so anonymous “‘leaks”. His self. ba able to redst these Iwe letters w&ten in the forties by a Canadian allitemtive: “brilliant, bespectacled”, serving foreword quotes an unnamed woman to her bekwsd. With thera ox- “the gullible Gulliver of the North”. privy counclllor in the Pearson govern-. quidtely written dsclamtions of love from this brilliant Canadian writer a There is the muddmesp.of Fpmsslon ment describing the PM’s ‘%weigbing drama unfolds. . . the storm of a with its constant threat of total io- against” Newman at a Cabinet meet- .lewisb man and a Catholic nvnmn who refuse to accept the dictates of comprehensibility. ing. I for one domot believe that the society and mli9lon and come to an Consider a Newman sentence, on late MI. Pearson ever sMously understanding about the uniwrsality of low far ahead of their tima $7.95 Robert Boumssa: “He appears even “inveighed against” Peter C. Newman younger than 36, a man so gaunt his during his amiable administration. neck muscles are taut and his Adam’s Newman never grasped the man, was 3MUSSON apple juts out incongruously below a incapable of catching his self-depn- - BOOK COMPANY face whose eyes incongruously mirror catory style, his wry goodness. A DMslon Of the sensitivity of a nun.” 1 suppose I GENERAL P”BLlSHlND CR LIMITED A Newman strength ls eavesdmp- have read that sentence 10 times. The IO LeamIll Road. Don Mills, Omado ping, and to the extent that he does so effect of it is to ma& you want to put - and avoids fatuous inbxpretatlon - the coUectio” has the undeniable pension cheque has arrived “like a Look For These attraction of a” overheard tiff in the hint.” Best Sell&s bedroom. By’ far the best thing in Original sin? Hardly. Eva feels no it is a report of Mr. Diefenbaker’s guilt, feels nothing in fact - as if the in Bookstores ’ extraneous and pathetic conunentary primal mother had simply quit the Across Canada on the proceedings at the Conservative garden without so much as breaking convention where Stanfield secur.ed the lease. Atavism? Eva does take a the leadership. One can see New- copy of Withering Heiglts with her, ma” squattingbehind the old Chief, tap though - so far at least - there has ing his remarks on a Sony (or has this been no Heathcliff in her life. Sexual ambitious reporter mastered Pitmann desuetude, then? Her husband is shorthand?). Newman belongs there if stricken with arthritis. “Caged up he belongs anywhere, conceded in the inside his pain:’ he is ill-tempered, stands, recording the petty show of petulant, useless. But, as Eva explains Canadian polities. 0 in a” epistle to God: “It would have been different if my life before Burt Jon Ruddy, form&y of the Toronto got Arthritis had been full of colour Telegram end Ma&an’s currently a and interest and the richness of loving column& with TV Guide, joins Books and being loved.” Whatever the “rich- in Canada as associate editor with Thor issue. His first novel, The Running ness of loving and being loved” means, HliTORY OF GOLF Ma”, will be gublidaed by-McClelland Eva clearly feels she has had none of IN CANADA & stewart. it. In the same letter, she informs the written by L.V. “Paddy” Kavanagh mdeity of wmnan’s lot in life. Does He former secretary. reslii what submerged identities manager of the OUT OF women like Eva have? Of course not, Royal Canadian Golf Association He is a man. “Unless You really are The first and only cmlpleli record cd female after all, as the Women’s Lib Canadian golf written by veteran golf witer “Paddy” Kavanagh. who has girls insist. even You can’t know what zeen wlkcting golf CaMdiana for it’s like to be invisible for years on wean BI a hobby. The rerulling wawry of Canadian golf includes end.” Ihe complete records and tinners of THE BOOK OF EVE 111 the major Canadian champion The theological poiht is debatable. ihips and match= He recalls wlwr- CONSTANCE BERESFORLHOlVE More problematical is the question of iul players and golf anscdot?~ Richly IlfacmiUan of Canada illustrated with photographs from tiCtiona1 credence. Eva’s passive suffer- wovincial archives and private col- cloth $6.95: 170~~s ing throughout he? marriage is well lections. many never before pub lished. An important referencz book -- enough established. What is not estab- for golfers (wrd entertaining for the lished is the. reason - or indeed the werage reader. review-d by Kiwis &Ott character - behind this dismissal of octobw tilloec. 31/73E16W what she has previously regarded as thm?afh?rsIz50 AFTER 40 YEARS of marriage. the the unholy state of holy matrimony. THE ONION FIELD heroine of Consttince Bereford-Howe’s The fault is in the characterization. Joseph b%‘ambaugh fifth novel walks out on her husband. There is one Eva who is quirky, in- A superbly told true account Of the kidnapping of NV0 politxmen. the it? Inevitably, she asks herself why, and dependent and tough - hardly the credible murder of one and its answers: “Truly, I’m not sure yet, kind of woman to endure 40 years of equally incredible aftermath. “A fa+ cinadng account of a dwble tragedy. although my name is Eva.” Truly, this connubial ennui. This Eva takes a base- one physical. the other psyche reviewer is not sure yet, though he has ment mom in a seedy quarter of logical:’ - Tmman Bpote, author of asked hbnself what a writer like Montreal, spurns the blandishments of I” Cold Blwd Samuel Beckett would have madelof her bnplacably bourgeois son, and re- the situation. sists all offers of money and a holiday A FAIRY TALE Heroines in the first paragraph are in Florida. She even finds her Heath- OF NEW YORK seldom sure of their motives, but Eva cliff, John Horvath, a Hungarian- J.P. Donleavy Czech, who arrives one night, drunken- An ,hilarious version of DonleWJV’s spends a” entire novel trying to answer well-known play. The advent”~~ Of - that question, w/zy Is it sentence, ly and biliously, at the foot of Eva’s one Cornelius Christian, who k forced to take a job with a fur+ perhaps? “This century and 1 are stairs. Johnny, it transpires, is a di.mtor to pav for the burial of his about the sanw. age:’ says Eva, “so it deracinated intellectual who quotes ~Jl~oho~rke on a rearm vcvage m would be easy, if not really true, to Horace, cooks, and is a great lover. say I’m a typical twentieth*entury There is also another Eva, nostalgic Published by product of desiccated monk codes.” and dreamy. It is this Eva, describing FitrhsnrV R WhItesida No, that is not the voice of decrepi- an old affair with a khoolteacher 160 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Ontario tude, even though Eva’s first old-age colleague, who is capable of lines like: -.-.._ --.__-.--- --. _--._- “More than thee weeks went by be fore I saw Pat egatn. Bvely hour of it ltte a year.” f LOVES i one good Or: ‘As for me, I didn’t know what I wanted, I only felt my blood sing LABOUR i book after in&” or: “I . . . lay awake a long time, tingling everywhere, in a whirl of con- LOST ! I another fused, crazy hopes and other delos ions. And that was, oh God, only the beeinning -” ORGANIZED LABOR & ONE DAMN THING AFTER PRESSURE POLITICS: ANOTHER No doubt this sb@g and tinglllg, by Hugh Garner oh God, ls meant to sound girlish, it Canadian Labour Canada’s most pmliflc and -reads exactly like a writer striving for Congress 1956-66 ~um~aclous writer recounts his that effect. There m other moments, DA VID KWA ViICK ilf; story, no holds barred. too, when the narrative tone is off-key SS.65 McGil~Queenk Universi~ Fms and the observation qti&ionable. A cloth $12; chance encounter with her gmnd- THE PICTORIAL HISTORY ‘OF daughter leads Eva to this judgment: CAhADIAN LABOUR THE ROYAL CANADIAN “I was thankful. for once, that ltke all IN POLITICS MOUNTED POLICE her. generation she was inept with by Stanley Horrall. RCMP GAD HORQWITZ, words, BS if they were an alien form of Univmi~ of Tomnto Ress Historian expnssion. But I’d forgotten the roth- The only ~officfd centenary pflpu $3.50; volume! AvaIlable in French lela honesty behind thla fractured and English editlons and beau- syntax and vocabulary.” Plsh! NATIONALISM,, tifully Illustrated. Sl.2.9.5 kr for John Horvath, the gigolo COMMUNISM-AND Gem Pest, he has an inexplicable CANADIAN LABOUR tendency to omit verbs from his IR VING MRTIN ABELLA WE, THE WILDEFiNESS: speech. ‘Toor Johnny,” one is expect- A Novel Umiwsi~ of Toronto Press by Thomas York lng hhn to say; ‘Me no good Bohunk.” doth $15. pqer $4.5& The insights into missionary He doesn’t, of course-not quite. zeal. Indian settlements. and All this is a great pity, for Con- the white community are as staoce Beresford-Howe has an excel- reviewed by watter Klepac * much enlightening as terrify- ing in this remarkable novel. lent sense of atmosphere. The nuances S9.95 of place end weather, the changing SINCE THE TIME of Marx, the left moo* 0P the city and its people, these has viewed the labour union move- are superbly realized. ment as the natural medium for instil- ALEKANDER MACKENZIE.. ling class consctousnesr and collective S The Book of Eve ends optlmi+ EKPLORER: The Hero Who tically. Jeanne Leblanc, a tenant in action among workers. To one extent : Failed by James K. Smith Bva’s buil+g, gives b$th to a or another, the unions were regarded 2 A pmvocatlvs approach to the daughter. I suppose thts is meant to be as a necessary tool in socialism’s ulti- a ambitious career of one of “‘life-affiing’, the moral being that mate victory over capita&m. In the Canada’s most legendmy ad- case of Westem industrialized coun- ! venturers. S795 it ir never too late to start life over again. tries, however, this alleged “radical I For a novel that is so obviously an potential” inherent in the organ&d essay into literary realism, 7rtre Book Working class csn hardly be said to of five failed to suspend my disbelief. have been nslized; rather than bring- Or, to borrow a phrase from the mth- ing about revolutionary transforma- legsly honest users off ctured syntax. tions in the’ economic, political and Constance Bensford-Lwe does not social ordei, the labour movement ~tellitl&ttls.O seems to have been absorbed into the existing industrial system. Three recent books on the labour-union moyement in Canada this century go a long way in correcting this mlscon- ception. Ply based on the asmmp- tion that organized labour has become McGmw-Hill Ryerson an institution of vested interest and 330 Pmgmss Avenue Scarborough, Ontario most exercise what political and 1W12, economic iofluenee it can within the framework of democratic capitalism, 24 i__-_l. _ .-.- __-.. --__..- --~ fmni then0 tall now For eighty-live years, Satur&y Nigbt has vig- orously chronicled the life of Canadians: their manners and. morals, their ideals and actions. Now. in a unique new book,’ you can examine that life through the eyes I& WALKER & .SONS of Sat.vr&y Nigbt writ-. . . ers and artists. New Press has published ,A S~~turdav Nigbt Scrupbook, ediied by Morris Wolfe, a nostalgic and i,rreverent collection of words and pictures from the first eighty-five years of Satur&~y Nigbt’s history. It’s a book to give, a book to browse in, a book’to cherish. A Saturday Night Scrapbook follows Canadian history as it was’made- through two world wars and a depression, from the Gay Nineties through the Roaring ‘Twenties up to rhe Nationalistic Seventies. It shows you the ads and the fads, the men and the events. It makes the history of Canada as fascinating as it is surprising. It contains the work of distinguished S.&day Nigbt editors like Edmund E. Sheppard and B.K. Sandwell, and the work of first-rate Canadian artists like Fred Varley and Arthur Lismer. A S&uday Nigbt Scrapbook is about Mackenzie’ King, the Hupmobile, the Kaiser, Maao de la Roche, the Bolshevik menace, Victory Bonds, the Lord’s Day Alliance, and a wonderful uew invention called the bicycle (see above). The book has an introduction by Robert Fulford which tells the magazine’s history. You can obtain A S&mday Nigbt Scrapbook for just $12.50, postpaid; by filling out the coupon below, or you can buy it at your bookstore. .TO: Saturday Night 52 St. Clair Ave. E. Toronto M4T 2Nl Please send me A Samrduy Night Scrapbook. I enclose my cheque for S12.50. NAME ADDRESS CITY PROV CODE - __.- .._. -- . - . --- . --., -_ -_._ .-_ .._... -‘--Y--.-- ” these books &I offer liltle comfort to strategies and elaborate bureaucratic significantly weaken it* position as doctrinaire leftists, new or otherwise. structures adopted by the CLC in wr- spokesman for labour when confront- Professor David K\vavnick’s book- rying out its role as the recognized ing the federal government on fimda- length study, Otgmized Labour and spokesman for organized labour in mental issues and in times bf &ii Pressure Polidcs, systematically ex- Canada. Kwavnick’s numerous examples of amines the relationship between the The overwhelming conclusion one such confrontations strongly suggests Canadian Labour Congress and the draws from the evidence marshalled in that the lordly demeanor and dema- federal government from 1956 to this study is that the position.of the gogic tendencies of American labour 1968 on the b&is of the following CLC is fundamentally a defensive one leaders such as George Meany and the premise: “The most important.. . both in its dealings with the govern- young James Hoffa would hardly be in organizational goals of the Congress ment and in its claim to ,mpresent or- character for the members of the CLC are the preservation and continuirig ganized labour. The Congress’ initia- executive. The Congress’ pressure on growth of the organization itself and tive is limited to two areas, according the federal government for specific the continuation of the leaders in their to Kwavnick. It serves its aftXater, the legislation is effective only when it position of leadership.” Kwmnick’s majority of the large crafts and in- happens to coincide with public comprehensive and dtily academic dustrial unions in Canada, by acting opinion. approach provides an overall perspec- both as a public-relations organization Gad Horowitz’s Canadian LaLmu in tive that dramatically undercuts the for the labour movement as a whole Polirics (I 968) has recently been reio rhetoric of conflict and antagonism and as a lobby group whcwe member- sued in paperback by the Ufiiversity of that has traditionally characterized dis- ship on .importrnt advisory boards and Toronto Press. The book deserves,a cussions of labour relations with busi- commitlees and whose daily contact wider readership, even though it only ness and government. It is fortunate with government officials ensoras that . partially~~ succeeds in realizing its that, in breaking new ground, Kwav- labour’s interest will at least be heard. author’s intentions. Horowitz sets out nick is able to state his case in an Furthermore, it is Kwavnick’s con- to explain why socialism succeeded in authoritative and convincing manner. tention that tbe CLC’s lack of power becoming a natural part of the politi- Kwavnick devotes the major part of over its affiliates and the fact that its cil landscape in Canada while failing the book to elaborating two concepts larger affiliates are international even to survive in the U.S. His highly - legitimacy and mandate - ihat he unions who naturally look to the intriguing theoretical &count is based believes underlie the motivation, AFLCIO as their trade-onian wntre, on ideas developed by Louis Hartz in Fiction .and Biogra‘phy from- I Robert RussdU The Island The Story of a Family Who Turned a Dream into Reality Is there anyone who has not dreamed of slipping quietly out the side door of society to seek peace and happin& on some remote island? The Island is the exciting, humorous, and sometimes eloquent story of q family-The Robert Russells, on their island in the St. Lawrence River-that pursued such a dream. $8.95 and - Joyce CaroR Oates Do With Me What You Will Do With Me What You Will is a novel with contemporary setting reflecting today’s social upheavals and shifting morality. It is. in the author’s words, “a love story that concentrates upon the tension between two American ‘pathways’: the way of tradition. or Law: and the way of spontaneous emotion-in this case, love.” COPP CLARK PUBLISHING his The Liberal %ditlon in America and Tire Foundbtg of New Societies The rest of the book is a well- This is what the Toronto Star said about it: “Evary trwsller in Canada should documented history of the evolution carry a copy.. . All other guidas are of the New Democratic Party out of BLUE IS Tl-lE COLOUR wspoct as merely diw&ed ahnnisins.” the first labouroriented political OF DEATH Fpo: Ths Eumpsan Ysars party, the Cooperative Commonwealth DOROTHY FARMILOE !JY Dou#f= 0. *NW In thii remarkable book Professor Swt- Federation (CCF). This section is paper: 31 pages dgue reals tlw true identiN of the valuable in itself; as a concrete exam- Canadian nowlist Frederick Philip KINDLING Orma Thismuld be the most impofla* ple of Horowitz’s initial thesis, how- Kte;tey biography ever pubbrhtd WI ever, it is altogether misleading. LfiONA GOM Ironically, professor Horowitz’s in- paper: 40 pages 73: New Canadian Podas cisive history of the CCF-NDP clearly &ted by DavM H&II& B Jpan Hamur~ NO LIN,GERING PEACE Thir Is thB third in Obemn’s annual demonstrates the step-by-step watering reties of storybooks. This sris has been down of socialist ideology in the par- MAR VYNE JBNOFF deslgnsd bpth for the studsnt and for ties’ plaiform and general philosophy . paper: 52 pogc# the general reader. in order to attract larger public sup Tl-lE IMMACULATE Schoolboy Rffnn by N&al FoxelI port. The final chapters show that it is WHITE FENCE Nip! Foxall’s second n~v81 e~plpml th8 the NDP’s relative success in winning driver and inhibitions that shape II b&S MARILYN CROWSHOE prow&up: his developing sensa of hlm- elections to really matters to as-yet Fiddlehead self as a psmn, his dismww of vmmsn. skeptical or uncommitted voters and paper so.50: 20 page* his gmwing need to destroy the world ol not that party’s socialist doctrine. The his fathers Coppnmino fate of the Waffle faction of the NDP I AM WATCHING IJ,I Dan Gutterfdge is ample indication of what happens SHIRLEY GIBSON An epic poem based on Samuel Henme’s when party members take their jpumaf of his expsditlon to the C0PPlllc Anansi mine in 1772. social&m too seriously. paper $.?.95. cloth $6.00:‘58 paw Letter d the Master of HOISB In his NatioMliun, Communism, by Gay Gcddes and Canadian Labour, I.M. Abella pro- This evtraordinaly p~sm 0111 the StOW OTHERS of the hpne latitudes, so named becaU¶ vides a detailed account of the expul- a shipload of ho- bound for the sion of the Communist party,members CAROL SHIELDS Spanish Maln wa driven Overboard tbsn from the Canadian labour movement The Borealis Press and left to drown. paper. unpriced: 60 pwes Flies/Flight of tbs P~mdaetyl and eventual domination of that move- by Lloyd Abbey & Gail Fox ment by the large American-based in- Ths sixth ~olpme in the New Cpnadiar ternational unions. Though Abella has Posts Serier. Lloyd Abbw uurltus claa reviewed by .%iSa?I i%t??Zef?ttan and dewstating ppsms about in%=3 no favourite theories to expound, he - fish, birds and animals. Gail POX BLIUIII~ does come to two significant and, by the voice of an extinct bird of prey in ar MARGARET AGOOD told an axtended monploou0 depicting tbt now, well-known conclusions. The audience at the University of Toronto seventh circle of hell. mmt famous is that despite the heroic that she had found Canadian poetry an efforts of Canadian organizers, (of open field for women. Certainly there A collage novel about Swensy Tqdd whom many of the most competent have been many successfu! female tha barber who cut his customers were members of the Communist throats and gava the bodl- to his wife tc poets in this country, and their nupl- make pis with. A wllecto~s itom OI party) to unionized unskilled indub her is increasing. Heie are six new treat beauty. trial worked throughout the country, books by Canadian women. Fords Eat cllws the masses ‘of Canadian labourcrs Two of them will be familiar to by John Sandman themselves felt that only tbe CIO had readers of Dorothy Livesay’s 40 sufficient power and prestige to deal Women Poe& of Canada: Dorothy effectively with tbe large corporations Farmiloe and Leona Gom. Two years and militantly anti&bout govemments .ago, in her preface to Contra Verse, such as Mitch Hepburn’s in Ontario. Farmiloe listed some of the charac- Abella’s other finding is that it’was the teristics of the Windsor poets: “The clo3e ties of local Communists’ to rhythm of the speaking voice, use of Moscow-formulated policy that furally current idioms, directness of presenta- proved the former’s undoing. tion, an awareness ofwhat is going on Of the three books, Abella’s by far in the world beyond our own suffering offers the greatest insights into t& souls.” Now, in Blue is the Colour of mentalities and personalities behind Death, she proves how powerful such the labour-unioh movement in Canada. poetry can be. The book takes its title IVdter Klepac is LI Toronto journalist from a suite of 24 poems in which the specializing in economics. politics, and writer trae$s the .gradual conquest of Oberon contemporary art. nature by the forces of death. Blue is 27 _. .._. _ _ _ _l_~ _...- -.. . ..-_~ . .._ first associated with the bluebird, but man’s deathdealing nature and sue “the symbol/ is obsolete mnv”, then ceeds. with the lost purity of .tbe Detroit , The rest of’tha book relates the River and the now-extinct passe@ first suite to the poet’s own’life. In pigeons: “Letter to Marty”, she tries to explain Looking for metaphor, she fmds “why your poams/ speak of life and instead the actual lives of her parents. mine of death”. The masons are scat- In “Spiine”, she keeps slipping into tered throughout the section. In “The German. This .recreates for the reader Quarrel”, for example, she links the thi sense of separation (“ alien among But it is also associated with the ice constant figbting of her parents with my books”); yet the lovely image of fields waiting “blue-brilliant” in tha her present condition: “I have the the kindling gathering like snowflakes North, the inevitable death by freezing genes of both’of them/ quarrellimg in around the mother’s fe& balances the which is wsential for our purification. my blood”. separation with fascination and tender- Like Birkin in ‘Women in ‘Low, ‘the l&ma Corn’s strength does not lie ness. In an earlier version (in 40 poet envisions a fresh evolution after in her social criticism. Such poems as Women Poets), the speaker would the extermination of man, and prays “0 Canada” and “Lhude Sing 0 catch herself and translate some of the that next time we can “evolve without Canada” (an echo of Pound) are less German words; here her touch is sun;. a trigger finger”. She contrasts the im- succegpful than si@lar work by others. she movas clqser to the foreign Ian- potence of her poems with the power But about half the poems in Kitding guage as she does to her mother, cul- of glaciers to change the landscape, deserve attention. Besl are those deal- minating in the image of the sdow- and ends with a vision of death as the btg with her parents, life on the farm, flakes: “mangled body of/ a dog” on the and herself as a child: “The Lantern”, road, its tail curled like “a dark blue “The Separator”, “Spiine”, “Hitchbtg question mark”. The suite is broad in Home”, “Moved”, “Rain-Maker” and its reference: it alludes to explorers “Busing Back”. In the fl!st poem, a O.&r interesting pieces are. “The and settlers, fairy tales and myths, sister has made the old barn lantern Kindest Month”, “Graves”, and Eliot and Wordsworth, geology a@ into a flowerpot; the poet says: “Persephone”. I won’t abuse the ones evolution, Hiroshima and A&zhwitz. Ilook for a metaphm in tiir. I didn’t lii: one in two is a gaod Farmiloe sets out to make you sick of ronrc c~nune”f on art and life, average. F HARD-TO-FIND In the U.S.A. In the U.K. CANADIAN BOOKS 220 University Avenue, Bemwarohe, 99 Bathum 9mzt, Perranpmh, Torow, Onmio California 94301 Cornwall. M5V 2P7 ~.. _:.____; _. _._ .._._ Mawyne Jed-f and Marilyn Crow- shoe seem to have the same problem, a lack of correlation between situation and emotion. If Crowshoe expresses anger without giviog us enough in- formation about its source, _Jenoff describes the source of her grief with- out expressing enough of the grief it- self. Crowshoe’s “Time Out”, “‘Night Winds”, and “Last Time” are pure sen- sation; we accept its veracity, but we w-ant more. Perhaps we want to see the 1 sensation projected onto a landscape? THE DEVIL’S LIGHTER or explained through historica! allu- John Ballem MALCOLM LOWRY - A thrilling action nwel %t in sions, or simply given a narrative MAN, MYTH AND MAGIC Canada - bv thB ~811 known Tony Kilgallin authority in the Canadian oil in- framework. Jenoff knows how to be dustry .k,hn Salle”, In a world concrete. Surely she is right when she A brilliant neon rrudv of Mslctdm where oil supplies am rapidlv Lowry. over flva years in prePBm dwindling. when countries am says, “Now that my father is dying/ I tion. basnd on new sources of in- greedy for ‘more and mw oil - have something more immediate to formation about the man behind this bitch gadders draws men write about/ than old loves”. Yet we ’ tha legend. Alro containing a very from all cxamma of the world in madable guide threwh Loww2 frantic pursuit. never really see “the subiect mat- onw two authorized nwet% “John Ballem ha shop hew tar- hit/home”; the poet retreata ULTRAMARINE and UNDER rifving the Canadian North ~allv ter... THE VdLCANO.$a95 is. Ballem knows what the oil from the fact of death to deal only businar is all about, and he sue cessfullv drlws home his point with ifs effect on herself. She says, that oilmen earn ew’v cent they “my father and I are dying/ at dif- make and that thav Iii more bi ferent speeds”. Yes, but the difference dreams than bv gusher.” - Re9 _ Vicksn. Calgary Herald. $7.95 in speed is eJsentia1. However, some of BOOK COMPANY Jenoff’s poems on other subjects show * Ol”M0” 0, J@J GENERAL a refreshing exuberance and wit. GeNERAI. Pum,eH,Ne co. Le.wm ML-so.- Shirley Gibson, long active in 90 Lesmlll Road, Don Milla. Onlarl~ 30 Leamlll Road, Don Mllls. Ontarh publishing, makes her debut as.a poet with I etn watching. According to the blurb, each of the fsures addressed as a BlcYowlaL #IS.TORY “you” in the three sections of the OF THE DOUMHOBORS book is “distinctly individual!‘, but I KOOZMA 1. TARASOFF don’t thiik this eOmes across in the Mare than 700 me photos, 13 d%vings, poetry poetry. The others involved hardly and an 8 page color section, trace tic history of come alive at all; they never speak the Doukhobor people Gem the early days in directly; most of their activity takes’ Russia through to modem times. It is a CritIcal place in the dark. The first “you” is histmy, an in-depth study, of Q pcoplc whore txuc French-Canadian. but the cultural dif- acbicvements have too often been obucured by the scnrrllonalism of P few. An important addition 10 ference is not exploited; nowhere are the home or clnssmom library. and certainly the reasons for the disaster given. At interesting twding for every Canadian. one point, the poet says: 280 pp., hardcover there we timer when wonis filrs+mx cl0se bnpr bridge dlstames but not today MEN AGAINST This h the tmuQle. The words are THE DESERT somehow failing to bridge tha gap between poet and reader. For exam- JAMES H. GUY ple, her descriptions of the train-trips The gmat dmu@ of the 30s left behind acms of dusty land.. . and it war only thmugh the maeal are flat; she must state, “We move cffmts of farmers, ~rcientists and other dedicated through a dead land” instead of recrea- paople that the~mdrie land ~1s relnmcd to pm ting it for us. The men in these poems ductivity. This is their story, one of triumph over ue violent: “your hands grip my the odvenitles of Nalun. bones” “you take me like/ a con- zS6 pp., illwtrated. hvdcwer $9.95 quistad&“, and: I mefir II token pmt& Available from: Western Producer, Box 250, Saskatoon, S7K 20% You respond pcrfmtty. Eastern Distributor: SAANNES, Box 6209, Toronto, M5W lP6 with MC hand pin bat11 wimabove my he&. 29 _._ -. _ _ _ . .._..._._ ..__ -. . _-. __ .~-,.-_. --- .~ ~. ---- Petfectlj~ for whom? This seems to be actor. The book reminds me that he what the woman wants: she calls her- also did Paths of Glqv and Lonely me m! Tundra Books - 1973 s&lf a “complacent victim” in one the Brave, two very fm fti indeed, poem; in others, she puts up B token end in which we see the finer. deeper resistance.,Sex h a battle in which the and more sensitive side of Douglas the male conquers the female, leaving her aotor. In his .+l too brief biography, For m%al years now Tundrahas been Producing some of the most baautiful bruis+ and cut. Thomas shows us the intelligent side children’s booka in Canada. Thlr fall The book is strongly influenced by., of the man that is nrely seen io the look for two mom - plus three sup~llor such poets as Atwood and Ondaatje, glilz and glare of those fti in which works of adult fiafon. but this need not condemn it. Some of h,e ls Douglas the image of Douglas. ; ) .--- - . . . - _.. __. the poems using this idiom are moving Comparing my own impression of and effective, for example “1 prom- Douglas from that party to the revela- ised/ to make your leavlog”. Still, I’d tion bf Douglas in Thomas’ book, I rather see Gibson break away and fmd can only wish that someday I might a more distinctive voice. see Kirk Douglas do some real acting - The main diffxulty in readiig Carol on stage. Shields’ poetry is deciding the tone, _ In his Films of Marlon Emndo, the writer’s attitude to her subject. Thomas presentx a man with a Thls is especially true in Others be- troubled intellect. I am tempted to cause t+ titles seem to pull against the speculate that it is this intellectual 1. William Kumlek decribzs his prairis poems. Most of the titles stress the childhood In 20 fullsolor paintings m drive that has not found satisfactory beautiful you will wnt two copier of this “other-ness” of the people described, expression in Brando’s prevaricating book.oneforYour librawand ona for ic co&at to a united “we”. The career as superstar. cutting and framing. At once B childmn’s effect is one of distance, irony. Yet A friend of mine, who knows book and B nostalgia book for weryone the best of the poems are not about Brando and subsequently appeared who grew up on the pmiria 6.95 “Others,“, but about our&es. wltb him in The cocifather. told me “Helen’s Morning” stands out pm& about their early days together at New ly. because the poet makes us under- York’s Dramatic Workshop of the New stand and identify with Helen. Several School of Social Research There, of the poems have an old-fashioned under the tutelage of Erwin Placater, air, especially the ones that rhyme; the students recleved generous doses and somhtbnes the imagery is quek of liberal xxi&m. .Jke effects of ihis tlonable (“our limbs/ trailed silent/ are obvious in some of Brando’s public like lumber”). But there are some actions. ,Stmogely thou& as Thomas 2. Ann Blades. winn81 of the 1972 ‘gook good poems here, for example “A points out, Brando’s major fh dls- oftheYear”forMARY OFMILE 18, Fiftyish Aunt”, ‘Uo One’s‘ Simple” telb about B young boy living today on an asters were those in which he was com- Indian reserve in northern B.C. 4 hand- and “A Friend of Ours Who Knits”. 0 mitted to what they were saying. mme new full-color book for children Thls same friend told me another ases5’to,10:: : . 5.95 Suxcn Zimmermann. who liver in West . . . : HIil, Ont.. is a @zduate student in stow that illustrates Brando’s general And fooi the adults: En&h wilh (I special inter& in the dissatisfaction sod discontent par- . , poehy ofwo?nen. ticularly, as llwmas points out, with Tfw L&e Riots - by Eric Koch his career as an actor. Brando appeared CBnUda’s funni,qt infell*ual has created STARGAZING . knocking at my friend’s hotel room in aUkvilishly.cl~ howl.~bout~ashington coo:inued/mm page 2 the middle of the nigh+ My &lend let politicsahdmodem mannersand morals. For the wry sophistioaed reader. 7.50 locator could wish. What I noticed was hbn in, congratolating hbn on a recent this: success. He was quickly silenced by Riverlisp - by Frederick Ward l.KirkDouglasisnotasuglyashe one of Brando’s characteristic grunts A work of black flalon thet ~v~kes looks. of disparagement. To which my friend, Halifax’s Afrlcvilleand all the other black envious of success, concluded, not communitler thaf or-z edged American 2. Kirk Douglas’ jaw is not as bii as citler, by an exciting new writer. 7.90 it looks. without exasperation: ‘?darlon never 3.KirkDouglaslsnotastallashe knows what he wants.” And tbls is A Few Virtuous Men (Li Cornuti) looks. precisely the impression you get from by Ben Morreale- A Iltumryy thrill= 4. Kirk Douglas does not talk as Thomas’ brief but fascinating pmfde about loyalty and rewngs in Sicily that oftheman. maker tha( starkly beautiful end funny as he talks. frightening country even more so. 7.50 In short, I was tempted to revise Both these books are compendia of my impression of hbn as a man, and, each artist’s work, and there ls little after paging through Tony Thomas’ attempt at critical evaluation. How- Tundra Books are distributed by excellent history of his works. it also ever, that is not their purpose: they McClel!?nd & Stewart, Toronto becomes necessary to revise my are histories, and, as such show pab~+ bnpressioo of Kirk Douglas as an ttig.research. They are well put 30 _. __.__..:...... _-. ~___.._ togelhcr: the illustrations are clear and Dr. Jack Birnbaum’s new book, Gy solid. In fact, the effect, in each cast, Anger, brightly burbles about ‘Married woman would like to of such a variety within 1~0 covers of melancholia. depression and run-of- type manuscripts for authors the same bpok is somewhat over- the-mill anxiety - reassuring stuff, but in her home. Electric type- whelming in the versatility, range of no panacea. To idstill confidence in his Jvriter. fast and accurate expression and force of each actor. readers, he begins with a me= culpa: typist.” They are good books for people who ‘t sm an a& psychiatrist. I reject want a permanent record of each some of the old ways of psycho- therapy. Why? Sbnply becaure I man’s achievement. 0 know that it isno longs neee%a~~ ta spend ycvr with a patiint in rlow, tedious analysis OC his past. I’m fed Please call or write: up with psychiatrists who are passive and evasive. for tbcy belittte thetr Mrs. Douglas McEwing, patients I want to scream at tbe LwlC Queen Hill Farm, shittiy and mind lucking thal passes m plychothcrapy. Damn the mont& R.R. No. 5. md years of treatment with.ths old PAISLEY, Ontario.. NOG 2NO thenpier! Tel. (519) 832-5237 Then, in lieu of meaningful place- TWO FISTED bos, he offers a rude concoction of specious hearsay and meaningless sophistry. 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