Least Important Man, The

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Least Important Man, The

“Poets don’t do themselves or poetry any favours when they write about trivial matters,” writes Boyd in “Comfort and Canadian Poetry” (2002). Boyd’s latest collection takes this caution to heart: sober, self-sacrificing, and handsome, The Least Important Man is a book for those who want poetry to reassert its dignity and authority in everyday life.

AUTHOR

Alex Boyd

Alex Boyd: Alex Boyd is the author of Making Bones Walk (Luna 2007), the editor of Northern Poetry Review, and the co-founder of the Best Canadian Essays series; Making Bones Walk won the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry. Boyd writes for the Globe & Mail and lives in Toronto.