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It’s not surprising then that her first published book was a collection of poems, “The Circle Game,” which won her Canada’s 1966 Governor General’s award.

But the book includes an appendix of poems he cherishes by the likes of W.H.

And we end the interview on a philosophical note - as he recites "They are not long, the days of wine and roses" from an Ernest Dowson poem and muses on the fleeting nature of life.

“Done crossed every river, / Done reached this one; / Now I know my crossin’s done,” begins one poem beside a photograph of a woman dressed in silk, laid down in her coffin.

She meets Sam Shepard, who features her poem in a play he’s writing.