Edward Dickinson Blodgett (26 February 1935 – ?) won the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1996 for his collection Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano. Born in Philadelphia and educated at Rutgers University, E. D. Blodgett emigrated to Canada in 1966 to work as a literature professor at the University of Alberta. In 1999, Jacques Brault won the Governor-General's Award for Translation for 'Transfiguration (1998) , a translation of Blodgett's poetry. On July 1, 2007 E.D. Blodgett was appointed the post of Poet Laureate for the City of Edmonton, Alberta.
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Where we are, aspects of God are everywhere. They are not seen,
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"That True North." -- Tennyson
O Canada! Our Home and Native Land!
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