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Earle Birney Biography

Poet

Earle Birney was a Canadian poet known for his unique style and profound insights into Canadian culture. His work covers a wide range of themes, including nature, history, and human nature.

Inspirational Motivational

Author:Earle Birney

“Billboards Build Freedom of Choice Yegtit? Look See. AMERICA BUILDS BILLBOARDS so billboards kin bill freedoma choice between-yeah between billbores no WAIT its yedoan hafta chose no more between say like trees and billbores lessa course wenna buncha trees is flattint out inta BILLB- yeah yegotit youkin pick between well hey! see! like dat! ALL VYNIL GET WELL DOLLS $6.98 or-watch wasdat comin up? PREPAID CAT? PREPAID CATASTOPHE COVERAGE yeah hell youkin have damnear anythin FREE 48 INCH TV IN EVERY ROOM see! or watchit! OUR PIES TASTE LIKE MOTHERS yeah but look bud no chickenin out because billbores build AM- yeah an AMERICA BUILDS MORE buildbores to build more- sure yougotta! yugotta have FREEDOM TO hey!...”

Billboards

Book:One Muddy Hand: Selected Poems

Source: One Muddy Hand: Selected Poems

“Since we had always sky about, when we had eagles they flew out leaving no shadow bigger then wrens' to trouble our most aeromantic hens. Too busy bridging loneliness to be alone we hacked in ties what Emily etched in bone. We French, we English, never lost our civil war, Endure it still, a bloodless civil bore; No wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted. It's only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted.”

Can Lit

Author:Earle Birney

“It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.”

Men Reality Easy Fellows Dancing Myth Dancer

Author:Earle Birney

“Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp personal "truths" still emerging into perception. To grasp and to shape them.”

Thinking Art Stills Certain Energy Cold Balance Shapes Perception Tension Mature Rationality Neurotic Emerging Auras Prostration Personal Truth

Book:The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry

Source: The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry

“Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.”

Time Cold Bears Devotion Hold Me Whiteness Old Time Evergreens

Book:The Essential Earle Birney

Source: The Essential Earle Birney

“The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.”

Humans Poetry Voice Essentials Rhythm Human Voice

Author:Earle Birney

“The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.”

Men Writing Shows Development Contemporary One Man 1960s Vancouver

Author:Earle Birney

About the Author

Born: May 13, 1904
Died: September 3, 1995
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 8

Books & Sources

One Muddy Hand: Selected PoemsRelated source material

The Essential Earle BirneyRelated source material

The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetryRelated source material

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