Warren Glenn Clever, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., professor, writer, publisher, (1918-2003), Adjunct Professor University of Ottawa 1986-2003; Canadian Army 1936-1966 (from private to major), active service UK, Italy, NW Europe 1939-45; Lecturer, University of Ottawa 1967-70; Assistant Professor 1970-72; Associate Professor 1972-82, Professor 1982-83; Chair, Department of English 1972-75; President Tecumseh Press Ltd., 1972-2003; Vice-President Borealis Press Ltd. 1971-2003; Director Canadian Writers Foundation 1973; Vice President 1976-98; recipient Ontario and Canadian Council grants; evaluator for SSHRCC; Rep. British University Summer Schools 1977-83; Founder, Scholarships in Canadian Literature, English, University of Ottawa; Past Member, American Society of 18th-Century Studies; Association of Canadian University Teachers of English; Associations of Canadian and Quebec Literature; Member Amercian Association of Canadian Studies; General Editor University of Ottawa Short Stories Series; 1971-83; Co-ordinator Symposium Series 1972-83; Co-editor Journal of Canadian Poetry 1976-85.

Alberta Days is a poetic vision of the birth and development of a southern Alberta prairie town from pioneer to modern times told by various individuals who participated in the story.

Walking on Water

Square the circle.
How?
Tranquilize hate,
Stabilize pride,
Hallow love ...
In the fourth dimension.

How?
By gavel, baton,
Bayonet, dollar;
Square the circle,
Calibrate love,
Analyse violet,
Equate faith.

How?
By grass and heroin, napalm and bomb,
By fury white and fury black,
By the myriad butterfly power of youth,
Square the circle.

Walk on water --
By Buchenwald or Tibet
Czechoslovakia or Rhodesia
Harness the zodiac to plough the Milky Way.

Copyright © by Borealis Press Ltd. and Glenn Clever, 1974 - 2001.

... its myths are an outstanding part of Canadian life, shaping and swaying each Canadian from conception to interment. O Can attempts to portray a typical Canadian buffeted in the context of a few of our more pleasant myths. Yet O Can is a mere introductory outline of the astonishing array of contemporary Canadian myths: those who are deeply concerned about the great truth of these myths, who know more about them and are capable of a more searching, portraiture, may paint them more truly as they really are, to the people they are about - their fellow Canadians. Excerpts from the preface to O Can.