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Born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Sproxton studied in Winnipeg before moving west to Alberta.
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Headframe
(Sproxton unearths the underground with diaries, puns, poe...)
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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Headframe, 2
(In Headframe: 2, Birk Sproxton amalgamates stories about ...)
In Headframe: 2, Birk Sproxton amalgamates stories about history, geography, and family into the mythology of Flin Flon, a mining town on the edge of the Precambrian Shield.The narrator goes underground. He revisits Beaver Lake and legendary prospectors Kate Rice, David Collins, and Tom Creighton. Cemeteries tell stories about the Frank Slide and about the poet's ancestors. Long poems commemorate his mother and father. Scars on the narrator's body constitute a physical biography.With wit and wordplay, Headframe: 2 goes beyond the underlying notion of the first volume, borrowed from W.C. Williams, that a man is a city. Birk Sproxton excavates an abundant vein and turns nickel into gold.
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Birk Sproxton
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He taught creative writing at Red Deer College for over three decades, while working on his own projects. He was also an editor, having completed The Winnipeg Connection: Writing Lives at Mid-Century in the year before his death.
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Headframe, 2
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Headframe
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Headframe, 2
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March 14, 2007 (aged 63) -
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