Poet, teacher, publisher, essayist, translator and editor Louis Dudek was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1918. He taught at McGill University from 1951 to 1984. His publishing career includes the founding of such significant 'little magazines' as First Statement, Delta, CIV/n, as well as Contact Press, Delta Canada and DC Books. He is the author fo over twenty-five books of poetry, essays, epigrams and notebooks; as well as the editor of several anthologies. According to Canadia Literature: "Dudek is now properly regarded as one of the central figures of twentieth-century Canadian poetry." Robin Blaser referred to Dudek as "Canada's most important -- that is to say consequential -- modern voice." -- from 1941 Diaries .

Louis Dudek, born in Montreal, was educated both at McGill and Columbia University. In New York, as a young poet, he corresponded extensively with Ezra Pound. Back in Montreal, he joined the McGill faculty, where his lectures on literature became legendary. In combination with other key figures in the first and second waves of Canadian poetic modernism, he commenced many of the most important small magazines and literary presses of the mid-century. As a writer, critic, and cultural observer, his career has been dedicated to ongoing intellectual and artistic discussion. Identified as Canada's premier man of letters, Dudek died in 2001. -- from About the author at Amazon.com.