Testing the Elements
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Barrie’s Bruce Meyer is author of more than sixty books of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, literary journalism, and literary criticism. He has had two national bestsellers, The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey Through the Great Books (2000) and Portraits of Canadian Authors (2016).
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