$12 · More Poems For People, First Edition

NC Press, Toronto, 1972. 112 pp. Soft Cover. Condition: Very Fine. Greg Curnoe (illustrator). 1st. Greg Curnoe's portrait of Acorn is on the cover. Trade paperback format, there was no hardcover. There are too many poems to list them all here, but some of the highlights are: Bethuniverse; Poem on Life Insurance and Combat; I'll be a Statue to Myself; At Dawson Creek Hotel; It's the Last Stormtime; The Dolphin Knight; In Ottawa Streets; When the Ship of Villainy Went Down; To the Canadian Ruling Class; Ode to the Timothy Eaton Memorial Church; The Sleeping Giant; My Love's Been Bitten; The Schooner Blue Goose; The Man All Sprocketed with Shadows; War Bonnet; Gentle Goddess; and many more. Milton Acorn, "The People's Poet" was a gargantuan voice and the works in this book are worthy of his title.