Earle Alfred Birney was a distinguished Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honor, for his poetry.
I will always love Earle Birney. Always, and forever, and forever.
But this is the first collection I had read of his. It has not lost it's facination since, and I re-read it over on a regular basis. I would recommend Birney to anyone, and particularily in this form.