Sproxton unearths the underground with diaries, puns, poetry and plays in this romping exporation of the world of mining. All the folklore of new poetic territory surfaces in the telling.
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Sproxton unearths the underground with diaries, puns, poetry and plays in this romping exporation of the world of mining. All the folklore of new poetic territory surfaces in the telling.
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Add this copy of Headframe to cart. $13.93, very good condition, Sold by Reading Rat, ships from Winnipeg, MB, CANADA, published 1985 by Turnstone Press.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Apparent first edition (not stated); 133 p.; VG/no DJ as published; small dent in front cover, slight edgewear, clean, square, unmarked copy. "BEING A Flin Flon book with crowbars, a novel, a navel, a raven, hammers and shovels, two fish stories (in divers forms), three jokes, a puck, rink rats, four players playing, and Featuring a carnival with guest appearances." Birk Ernest Sproxton was born and raised in Flin Flon and worked as a diamond driller and track-gang labourer; at the time of publication he was a professor of Canadian literature and Creative Writing at Red Deer College. Look for his Flin Flon-based novel, "The Red-Headed Woman with a Black Black Heart"-a good pairing with this earlier book of poetry and short pieces. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
