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    The Essential Douglas LePan
    The Essential Douglas LePan
    The Essential Douglas LePan
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    The Essential Douglas LePan

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    The Essential Douglas LePan presents a wide-ranging collection of poetry—from tense verses on the fog of war to homoerotic love poems to lyrics in praise of the natural world, all in celebration of the heart’s blood ‘that runs through and supports everything mankind has made’.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherporcupinequill
    Release dateMar 28, 2019
    ISBN9780889848634
    The Essential Douglas LePan
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    Douglas LePan

    Douglas LePan was a veteran of the Second World War, a distinguished diplomat, and the principal of University College, University of Toronto. He won Governor General’s Awards for poetry for his collection The Net and the Sword (1953) and for fiction for his only novel, The Deserter (1964). He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1998.

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