xxi, 261 pp. A bump to the top fore edge, else fine. Articles, art photos by Alexandre Amprimoz, Margaret Atwood, Roloff Beny, Robert Bringhurst, Barry Callaghan, Morley Callaghan, Leonard Cohen, Charles Comfort, Mazo de la Roche, James de Mille, Jack Diamond, Stillman Drake, Sarah Jeannette Duncan, Sorel Etrog, George Faludy, Fastwurms, Timothy Findley, Northop Frye, G., Mavis Gallant, Greg Gattenby, Ralph Gustafson, Matthew Halton, Peter Harcourt, Geoffrey James, Anna Jameson, Alice Jones, D. G. Jones, Edward Jones, Diane Keating, Shelagh Keeley, Irving Layton, Douglas Le Pan, Gwendolyn MacEwen, David McFadden, Jay MacPherson, Antonino Mazza, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Farley Mowat, b. p. nichol, F. G. Paci, Aldo and Francesco Piccaluga, Al Purdy, Stephanie, Rayner, Charles G. D. Roberts, William Ronald, Joe Rosenblatt, Gary Ross, Moshie Safdie, Francesco Scolozzi, Duncan Campbell Scott, Michael Snow, Harry Somers, Francis Sparshott, Donald Sutherland, Harold Town, John Unrau, Jane Urquhart, Peter Van Toorn, Sean Virgo, Phyllis Webb, Claire Weissman Wilks, W. H. Withrow, Eb Zeidler, and Ludwig Zeller. ''Beatrice, if I forget you / at the Borghese Palace let my heart / forget its transplant from Canada but remember the stone dress / you wore and the sandal / that may have been unfastened / for hundreds of years''--Al Purdy, from Temporizing in the Eternal City (1970).