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Intimate Depictions

by Walt McConville

194 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-1162; ISBN 1-4120-0794-1; US$19.50, C$21.95, EUR16.00, £11.00

A lifelong love of poetry enlivens this sumptuous banquet of "Rhymes and Reasons" dating from 1927 to 2001, with nostalgic references to memorable Canadian & world events along the way. A hip trip!

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About the Book A STRIKING NEW CONCEPT! Here's a peep-show compendium of personal poems with a pulsing, provocative pace. Each one is linked to events of its time, along with a look at what lured it to life. Author Walt McConville lets down his hair (the little he has left) and gives you a candid contemplation of a life lived to the limit. With seven books, three musicals, two plays, and over 500 poems, short stories, travel and technical items to his credit, Walt's way with words will warm you within!

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About the Author After completing his education in Vancouver and Calgary, Walt was employed by International Petroleum Company for 11 years in Ecuador and Peru. On returning to Canada, he was 37 years in the travel field "telling people where to go," managing various agencies, and escorting worldwide tours and cruises until his retirement. Past newsletter editor, archivist, and vice president of Victoria & Islands branch of the Canadian Authors Association, Walt currently tutors an authors' poetry group, while attempting to reconcile today's trendy "shock-type" literature with previous conventional styles. He has written seven books, a couple of plays, three musicals, and over 500 poems, technical articles and short stories published in Canada, Peru, the U.K., and U.S.A. A lifelong love of poetry enlivens this sumptuous banquet of "Rhymes and Reasons" dating from 1927 to 2001, with nostalgic references to memorable Canadian & world events along the way. A hip trip! Walt McConville has also written a collection of "Poems With Punch" in a book called "FIERY FACETS." It can be ordered from PRIMROSE PRESS at 317-1236 Verdier Avenue, Brentwood Bay, BC, V8M 1P3, Canada, for $15.95 Can/$10.95 U.S. per copy, plus $4.00 postage and handling for the first and $2.00 for each additional book, autographed by the author." Walt's novel ANXIOUS IN TALARA is also available through Trafford Publishing. Kindly visit its web site at www.trafford.com/robots/00-0231.html.

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STUPIDITY (1952)

Stupidity, with sullen stare,
you've crept upon me unaware.
You've blocked my kick, you've spoiled my goal,
you've made me lose my self-control;
when faced with you, I tear my hair!
Like most, I've had my lion's share
of pain, misfortune, dire despair;
but you alone have seared my soul,
Stupidity!
And yet, perhaps it's only fair
that we poor mortals ought to bear
the aggravating rigmarole
you offer us. Could folks extoll
our cleverness, if you weren't there,
Stupidity?

In 1952, Elizabeth II became Queen when her father George VI died after undergoing surgery on lung cancer. Egypt's King Farouk abdicated, and "Ike" Eisenhower was elected 34th U.S. president.

My parents visited us during the famous Calgary Stampede in July, when traditionally the weather was always warm and sunny. But not in 1952. That year the Stampede Board decided to charge admission for all Indians who had customarily entered gratis. The indignant redskins staged a rain dance. The elements cooperated, and the palefaces got soaked instead. Only good mudders won the chuckwagon races in 1952, and the officials (now redfaced with chagrin) had to reverse their unpopular decision forever after.

In assessing the situation my father had rightly observed that "all of us are stupid on separate subjects."

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