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Having read more background on later mid-20th-century Canadian poets, I wonder if my previous assessment of this introduction is not critical enough of how much it isn't. The editor scorns McLuhan's detractors in a leet sort of way, but like many Canadian critics, seems less political than the author's, or audience's, original context.

Currently able to sign out a copy on inter-library loan, so reading content now.

"Prairie Voices" is an important practical poem for poets new to the region. It takes note of local gaps in the freedom Canada is known for, and makes curious observations about its effect on racialization (seemingly worse now than on publication). I laughed at the relatability of faux lefties associating pale ginger Maritime tone with Blackness? Although at least his hypocrites were more normal workers than Academia

"claustration" is such a stronger sounding word than "cloistering"

I didn't like the title of, "Dolphins Are People." Too jerky. But a warning to visitors to the Angloshpere, we are not so innocent. Cantor V is particularly dark and adult.

"Design for a Chessman" is equally critical and ends on a sad note.

Read, "Manitoba Elders," a collection of mini interview autobiographies by Indigenous elders published by the Manitoba Indigenous* Cultural Education Centre in 1981. Considering requesting addition to Goodreads but it has no ISBN or ASIN. A social and economic history eye-opener for sub/urbanized Canadians. Some useful practical knowledge.

(*Called by the now outdated term, "Indian," at the time of publication)

As I could not be bothered to find out how I would have read, "Cartaphilus," wrongly, I had to delay reading it for a couple of days to ensure I was in the right frame of mind. While reading, I had to look up a lot of names.

Returning after a long break during which time I realize Canadian literary critics depoliticize their subjects too much, I find the poem I left off at comments on exactly that problem.

It's refreshing to see someone regard the treatment of women in the Middle East and Central Asia as a warning of how Western countries could devolve treat women, rather than as a way of othering the cultures (many of whom were much healthier before outside interference) over there.

Every time someone portrays a principle Margaret Thatcher preached as something she was actually working towards, a brain cell dies. I keep seeing British people doing this. Disappointing. You seem unable to understand that she was *using* the rhetoric of freedom to promote her agenda, not that she *actually* promotes freedom. You make it sound like freedom is bad because Thatcher said it was good.

Barbara Castle

A mention of William Osler's contribution to scientography in Canada and the Anglosphere provides context to Hiester Reid's pain and women's medical experiences up to the present, such as a poet, which our biographer is, is uniquely apt to make. I dislike most Group of Seven work, by the way.

Apparently, "Schindler's List," and, "Bethune in Spain," are filed in the same place in my mind. I haven't read either one, yet. I wonder if there is as much ground for it as it looks like from the outside.

The movie, "Schindler's List," barely touches on the business corruption mafia shit in that part of history, so reading the book seems necessary, as I imagine it explains more.

The movie is nearly over by this point, so I'm looking forward to the extra development the original book seems to have.