Dance With Desire Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Porcupine's Quill
- Initial publish date
- Mar 1992
- Category
- Canadian
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780889841383
- Publish Date
- Mar 1992
- List Price
- $50.00
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Out of print
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Description
About the author
Irving Layton (Israel Lazarovitch) was born March 12, 1912 in Tirgu Neamt, Romania. Layton came to Montreal with his family before he was one. He attained a BSc in agriculture at Macdonald College in 1939. Following a stint in the Canadian Army, he did graduate work in political science at McGill. A poet, short-story writer, and essayist, Layton is perhaps the most well-known of the Montreal poets, a group of young poets who engaged in a battle against romanticism in poetry in the 1940's. Layton has published many poetry collections, including A Red Carpet for the Sun (1959) which won the Governor General's Award. Layton was poet-in-residence at various Canadian universities and a professor of English at York University 1969-78. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1981.
Irving Layton died in 2006.