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ISBN13: 9781771834544

ISBN10: 1771834544

English

A property harbouring a gruesome secret goes up for sale. Two men--perhaps, the wrong men--are shot in plain daylight. Nothing is what it seems. And matters do not turn out as anticipated. De Angelis, an inscrutable northerner, is travelling to a small town perched somewhere in Sicily's hinterland to negotiate a...

Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)

ePub

ISBN13: 9781771835510

ISBN10: 1771835516

English

Side Effects: A footloose journey to the apocalypse is a novel about the post-World War II baby boom generation and the factors that have led to climate catastrophe. The novel provides a portrait of the boomers by following the lives of a zany, idealistic couple and their growing family through...

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ISBN13: 9781771834414

ISBN10: 1771834412

English

A Map of Rain Days invites us into the liminal between the nights and the "too-bright days." The author navigates a life felt full on, inhabiting all its beauty and shadows -- the "slap-tumble" of sex, "the mean streets of the suburbs," "the swill and gore" of youth. Interwoven into...

Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)

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ISBN13: 9781771835503

ISBN10: 1771835508

English

Side Effects: A footloose journey to the apocalypse is a novel about the post-World War II baby boom generation and the factors that have led to climate catastrophe. The novel provides a portrait of the boomers by following the lives of a zany, idealistic couple and their growing family through...

Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771835503

ISBN10: 1771835508

English

Side Effects: A footloose journey to the apocalypse is a novel about the post-World War II baby boom generation and the factors that have led to climate catastrophe. The novel provides a portrait of the boomers by following the lives of a zany, idealistic couple and their growing family through...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771834544

ISBN10: 1771834544

English

A property harbouring a gruesome secret goes up for sale. Two men--perhaps, the wrong men--are shot in plain daylight. Nothing is what it seems. And matters do not turn out as anticipated. De Angelis, an inscrutable northerner, is travelling to a small town perched somewhere in Sicily's hinterland to negotiate a...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771834544

ISBN10: 1771834544

English

A property harbouring a gruesome secret goes up for sale. Two men--perhaps, the wrong men--are shot in plain daylight. Nothing is what it seems. And matters do not turn out as anticipated. De Angelis, an inscrutable northerner, is travelling to a small town perched somewhere in Sicily's hinterland to negotiate a...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771835664

ISBN10: 1771835664

English

Two unrelated, aspiring writers, born on the same day in the same year to parents with the same first names, grow up together and eventually gain national prominence as authors. But their complex sexual identities undermine their intense private relationship as the years pass, inflicting damage that cannot be undone...

Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)

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ISBN13: 9781771835572

ISBN10: 1771835575

In our era of #MeToo and fresh attempts to break the gender biased holds on our culture, a portrait of gender bias in the art world offers a microcosm of the pervasive challenges to achieving equality. Living Dolls and Other Women provides a fictionalized account of that world set against...

Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)

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ISBN13: 9781771836395

ISBN10: 1771836393

English, French

In 1653, Marguerite Bourgeoys arrived in New France, determined to bring faith to the developing Ville-Marie community and education to the young women of the colony (now Montreal). Carolyne Van Der Meer delves into the heart and mind of Marguerite Bourgeoys and, through poetry, explores the hopes and challenges she...

Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771836395

ISBN10: 1771836393

English, French

In 1653, Marguerite Bourgeoys arrived in New France, determined to bring faith to the developing Ville-Marie community and education to the young women of the colony (now Montreal). Carolyne Van Der Meer delves into the heart and mind of Marguerite Bourgeoys and, through poetry, explores the hopes and challenges she...

Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771833066

ISBN10: 1771833068

English

Fans of Anne Tyler's quirky characters and her attention to family life, or Pete Hamill's depiction of diverse, ethnic, urban neighborhoods will connect to Most Precious Blood, set in the eleventh-hour of a declining Italian-American neighborhood where complex and often destructive loyalties have dire consequences. Hard Luck Lenny is the...

Guernica Editions (MiroLand)

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ISBN13: 9781771833691

ISBN10: 1771833696

English

Philipovna: The Daughter of Sorrow is a creative non-fiction based on the author's mother's surviving the holodomor [the Ukrainian starvation] in the early 1930's. It is the story of an orphan who goes to live with her aunt in a rural village in the Ukrainian countryside. The aunt swears on...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771835176

ISBN10: 1771835176

English

What if the lady -- Jane Austen's contemporary --who conceived the world's most intriguing modern monster (Doc Frankenstein's creature) -- was also a proto-suffragette, precursor-feminist, and, simultaneously, much to her chagrin, wedded to a narcissist poet, whose liberalism urged on his libertinism? How would such a woman think? What would...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771833578

ISBN10: 1771833572

English

Zoe Du Plessis's story unfolds against the backdrop of 1996 South Africa, caught in the turmoil of the transition from the Apartheid regime to the first democratically elected black government. A paleoanthropologist at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, her world collapses when her lover and colleague, Dario Oldani, is killed during...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771834544

ISBN10: 1771834544

English

A property harbouring a gruesome secret goes up for sale. Two men--perhaps, the wrong men--are shot in plain daylight. Nothing is what it seems. And matters do not turn out as anticipated. De Angelis, an inscrutable northerner, is travelling to a small town perched somewhere in Sicily's hinterland to negotiate a...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771833998

ISBN10: 1771833998

English

Bewilderness explores urban and suburban wildernesses-- threshold places--in a darkly comedic, surreal set of prose poems. In Bewilderness, urban and suburban landscapes come to life as shape-shifting places, enchanted places, mundane places of magical thinking, as the reader explores the heterotopias of playgrounds and backyards, lakefront parks, splintery subdivisions, and semi-industrial...

Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771834483

ISBN10: 177183448X

English

Dori's narrative is a heart-touching and zany blend of actual events in the life of a young Boxer. With edgy charm, she takes us on a romp through her world in such a way we can't help but reconsider our lives. Through her we get a dog's-eye view on human...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771834278

ISBN10: 1771834277

English

The title poem of this collection takes us on an epic journey across past and present historical events and through spaces defined by the natural sciences, as it explores the challenges of being human in these troubled times. It is accompanied by a gathering of shorter poems that confront the...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771834148

ISBN10: 1771834145

English

The first of a two-part novel, Itzel I tells the story of three disparate characters swept up in the drama of the Mexican student movement of 1968 whose ending in the Massacre in Tlatelolco on October 2nd, a date now always commemorated in Mexico, changed their lives forever. Broad in...

Guernica Editions

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ISBN13: 9781771833769

ISBN10: 1771833769

English

They were shot, transported, deported. They were hanged, or they hanged themselves. They starved, or their hearts suddenly failed, or drugs or cancer consumed them. Others lived into their nineties, one even to 103. Nicola Vulpe's Insult to the Brain transports us from the gas-seeped muck of the Somme, to...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771833721

ISBN10: 1771833726

English, French, Italian, Spanish

At the core of the dry and purposeful language of Library Science and the Rules of Archival Practice is an Orwellian impulse that serves as a lens through which to consider what Hannah Arendt famously called “the banality of evil.” The Perfect Archive is a story in verse about an...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771835077

ISBN10: 1771835079

English

The poems in Swoon speak to the steady wending of a life's thematic drama: the falling / rising permutations across biographical phases. Indications are filtered through relationship, encounter, art, the natural world, and dream. Associations coalesce in a rhythmic clocking of feeling / thought. Randomness and accident may have a...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771836296

ISBN10: 1771836296

English

The Shade Tree is a searing exploration of racial injustice set against the backdrop of some of America's most turbulent historical events. The lives of two white sisters and a black midwife are inextricably linked through a series of haunting tragedies, and the characters must make life-changing decisions about where...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771834544

ISBN10: 1771834544

English

A property harbouring a gruesome secret goes up for sale. Two men--perhaps, the wrong men--are shot in plain daylight. Nothing is what it seems. And matters do not turn out as anticipated. De Angelis, an inscrutable northerner, is travelling to a small town perched somewhere in Sicily's hinterland to negotiate a...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771834148

ISBN10: 1771834145

English

The first of a two-part novel, Itzel I tells the story of three disparate characters swept up in the drama of the Mexican student movement of 1968 whose ending in the Massacre in Tlatelolco on October 2nd, a date now always commemorated in Mexico, changed their lives forever. Broad in...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771835091

ISBN10: 1771835095

English

In her debut collection of poetry, Conyer Clayton hovers in the ether, grasping wildly for a fleeting sense of certitude. Through experiences with addiction and co-dependence, sex and art, nature and death, she grapples for transcendence while exploring what it means to disengage. What is revealed when you allow yourself...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771831963

ISBN10: 1771831960

English

In 1941, twelve-year-old Rivke Rosenfeld lives in the Warsaw Ghetto, where she witnesses German soldiers slashing her grandfather's beard from his face. Her anger compels her to secretly write her stories and her memories in the margins of a book of fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen. When Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum,...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771832878

ISBN10: 1771832878

English

The essays in If You're Not Free At Work, Where Are You Free?: Literature and Social Change focus on the interconnection of community/workplace/individual and how literature (and thinking about literature) has a role in social struggles aimed at making that nexus more liberatory. The essays' topics include various social issues...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771832878

ISBN10: 1771832878

English

The essays in If You're Not Free At Work, Where Are You Free?: Literature and Social Change focus on the interconnection of community/workplace/individual and how literature (and thinking about literature) has a role in social struggles aimed at making that nexus more liberatory. The essays' topics include various social issues...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771832779

ISBN10: 1771832770

English

Jennifer Zilm's second poetry collection, The Missing Field, concerns themes of translation, preservation and the engagement with the transitory documents of everyday life--whether a snapshot of a Vancouver bus, postcards from the Middle East, lecture notes on Euripides, a van Gogh museum catalogue or marginalia in a water-damaged collection of...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771832571

ISBN10: 1771832576

English

Myth, folklore, and magic permeate the stories in Marianne Micros' collection Eye. Set in ancient and modern Greece, and in contemporary Europe and North America, these tales tell of evil-eye curses, women healers, ghosts, a changeling, and people struggling to retain or gain power in a world of changing beliefs....

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771832571

ISBN10: 1771832576

English

Myth, folklore, and magic permeate the stories in Marianne Micros' collection Eye. Set in ancient and modern Greece, and in contemporary Europe and North America, these tales tell of evil-eye curses, women healers, ghosts, a changeling, and people struggling to retain or gain power in a world of changing beliefs....

Guernica Editions

Mass Market

ISBN13: 9781771832939

ISBN10: 1771832932

English

small things is a book of mini-anti-essays, part of Sky Gilbert's project to dismantle and challenge the rigid classifications of genre. The purpose of this kind of genre bending is to challenge 21st century notions of truth. Inspired by Oscar Wilde, Foucault, and the post-structuralist project, the small writings in...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771835664

ISBN10: 1771835664

English

Two unrelated, aspiring writers, born on the same day in the same year to parents with the same first names, grow up together and eventually gain national prominence as authors. But their complex sexual identities undermine their intense private relationship as the years pass, inflicting damage that cannot be undone...

Guernica Editions

ePub

ISBN13: 9781771835671

ISBN10: 1771835672

English

Two unrelated, aspiring writers, born on the same day in the same year to parents with the same first names, grow up together and eventually gain national prominence as authors. But their complex sexual identities undermine their intense private relationship as the years pass, inflicting damage that cannot be undone...

Guernica Editions

Kindle

ISBN13: 9781771835688

ISBN10: 1771835680

English

Two unrelated, aspiring writers, born on the same day in the same year to parents with the same first names, grow up together and eventually gain national prominence as authors. But their complex sexual identities undermine their intense private relationship as the years pass, inflicting damage that cannot be undone...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771832007

ISBN10: 1771832002

English, Italian

Portraits of Absence is poetry of witness, of unflinching eyewitness accounts of atrocities--the devil's definition of humanity. Fabiano Alborghetti's words, unfolding with machine-gun hiccoughs and staccato rhythms, spaces where the dead drop and the living fall, weeping, are tactile, palpable, sonnets of wreckage and ruin. Consider him a 21st-century Wilfred...

Guernica Editions

ePub

ISBN13: 9781771831970

ISBN10: 1771831979

English

In 1941, twelve-year-old Rivke Rosenfeld lives in the Warsaw Ghetto, where she witnesses German soldiers slashing her grandfather's beard from his face. Her anger compels her to secretly write her stories and her memories in the margins of a book of fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen. When Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum,...

Guernica Editions

ePub

ISBN13: 9781771831970

ISBN10: 1771831979

English

In 1941, twelve-year-old Rivke Rosenfeld lives in the Warsaw Ghetto, where she witnesses German soldiers slashing her grandfather's beard from his face. Her anger compels her to secretly write her stories and her memories in the margins of a book of fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen. When Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum,...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771831956

ISBN10: 1771831952

English

In math for couples, we re-visit the past to discover our place in the contemporary world. A long-dead father watches his daughter work on her Mac, a woman converses with a photo of her young self. Adele Graf leads us on a journey that is rich and hopeful, evoking powerful...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771832045

ISBN10: 1771832045

English

In What If Zen Gardens …, Henry Beissel, often considered the master of the long poem, turns to the time-honoured tradition of the haiku to help bring to light what he calls “the world's hidden affairs.” Included in the collection are 19 black-and-white illustrations by Arlette Francière, themselves polished gems...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771831963

ISBN10: 1771831960

English

In 1941, twelve-year-old Rivke Rosenfeld lives in the Warsaw Ghetto, where she witnesses German soldiers slashing her grandfather's beard from his face. Her anger compels her to secretly write her stories and her memories in the margins of a book of fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen. When Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum,...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771831963

ISBN10: 1771831960

English

In 1941, twelve-year-old Rivke Rosenfeld lives in the Warsaw Ghetto, where she witnesses German soldiers slashing her grandfather's beard from his face. Her anger compels her to secretly write her stories and her memories in the margins of a book of fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen. When Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum,...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771831963

ISBN10: 1771831960

English

In 1941, twelve-year-old Rivke Rosenfeld lives in the Warsaw Ghetto, where she witnesses German soldiers slashing her grandfather's beard from his face. Her anger compels her to secretly write her stories and her memories in the margins of a book of fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen. When Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum,...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771831963

ISBN10: 1771831960

English

In 1941, twelve-year-old Rivke Rosenfeld lives in the Warsaw Ghetto, where she witnesses German soldiers slashing her grandfather's beard from his face. Her anger compels her to secretly write her stories and her memories in the margins of a book of fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen. When Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum,...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771834513

ISBN10: 177183451X

English

A young, mixed-race composer, raised without meaningful connections to his Chinese heritage and struggling with identity issues, travels to China in search of his long-missing uncle, an uncle who vanished in the aftermath of Tiananmen Square. An Idea About My Dead Uncle--winner of the inaugural Guernica Prize for the best...

Guernica Editions

ePub

ISBN13: 9781771834520

ISBN10: 1771834528

English

A young, mixed-race composer, raised without meaningful connections to his Chinese heritage and struggling with identity issues, travels to China in search of his long-missing uncle, an uncle who vanished in the aftermath of Tiananmen Square. An Idea About My Dead Uncle--winner of the inaugural Guernica Prize for the best...

Guernica Editions

Kindle

ISBN13: 9781771834537

ISBN10: 1771834536

English

A young, mixed-race composer, raised without meaningful connections to his Chinese heritage and struggling with identity issues, travels to China in search of his long-missing uncle, an uncle who vanished in the aftermath of Tiananmen Square. An Idea About My Dead Uncle--winner of the inaugural Guernica Prize for the best...

Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771833066

ISBN10: 1771833068

English

Fans of Anne Tyler's quirky characters and her attention to family life, or Pete Hamill's depiction of diverse, ethnic, urban neighborhoods will connect to Most Precious Blood, set in the eleventh-hour of a declining Italian-American neighborhood where complex and often destructive loyalties have dire consequences. Hard Luck Lenny is the...

Guernica Editions

Mass Market

ISBN13: 9781771830539

ISBN10: 1771830530

English

A flash fiction novel, The Sea-Wave details the aftermath of the kidnapping by an elderly and emotionally damaged man of a severely disabled, wheelchair-bound, unusually bright, depressive 12-year-old girl incapable of speech. The novel consists of the girl's entries in her diary-like memorandum book, entries which relate her own, surprising...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771830690

ISBN10: 1771830697

English

We all know adults who are stranded in the amber of adolescence. Growing older but not necessarily growing up is the central theme of Middle-Aged Boys & Girls, featuring characters who, to varying degrees, are stuck in adolescent roles of rebel, outcast, enfant terrible and cool kid. All are linked...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771830478

ISBN10: 1771830476

English

Charles Mingus, the renowned musician, composer and civil rights activist, claimed to be three people, was married to one of his wives by Ginsberg, and collaborated with such luminaries as Langston Hughes and Joni Mitchell. Twelve of the poems in A Mingus Lullaby explore moments in his life, compositions, performances,...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550719871

ISBN10: 1550719874

English

Stone Woman is a saga of Blossom's unconventional family of five women, whose lives are bound by a Vietnam-War draft dodger David, immersed in the Yorkville subculture of the hippie daze of Toronto. The novel draws the reader into a web of liaisons -- into David's love affair with Blossom's...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771832137

ISBN10: 1771832134

English

Rooms is lyrical and meditative, painterly, erotic and philosophical. The book is thematically and structurally a unity, but a unity of many parts, one and multiple. Rooms, many-chambered, purposeful and highly stylized yet light, light and airy as a beehive. Rooms plays like a late 20th century blues-inflected jazz. There...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771834544

ISBN10: 1771834544

English

A property harbouring a gruesome secret goes up for sale. Two men--perhaps, the wrong men--are shot in plain daylight. Nothing is what it seems. And matters do not turn out as anticipated. De Angelis, an inscrutable northerner, is travelling to a small town perched somewhere in Sicily's hinterland to negotiate a...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550718430

ISBN10: 1550718436

English

Grouped into four sections, the poems in this collection relate to the writer's experience of diving “into the destructive element” (in Joseph Conrad's words), naked, vulnerable, stripping off clothes, masks, and preconceptions in a process of connecting with the “creative spirit” in a way that is playful, loving, emotionally rich...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550718164

ISBN10: 1550718169

English

A story of mean drunks and happy ones, and of the women who often outlive them, My Grandmother's Pill is a rollercoaster ride through three generations of abuse and addiction. On the heels of divorce, Maude's relationship with Seamus sets the scene for her struggle to break free.

Guernica Editions

ISBN13: 9781550718614

ISBN10: 1550718614

English

The idea for this collection was to offer a tip of the hat to people whose lives and/or works have influenced the author. Each piece is forwarded by a short background story as well as an epigram which provides some descriptive entry and flavour. The key was to construct these...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550717327

ISBN10: 1550717324

English

These poems take the reader on a mind-blowing journey across the known micro- and macrocosms to the extreme outer edges of space and time. The counter-intuitive insights of modern science here become reality as we are led to question the representations of our senses. Quantum physics and cosmic relativity, captured...

Eyewear Publishing

Hardcover

ISBN13: 9781908998071

ISBN10: 1908998075

English

David Shook's debut collection employs the city as a lens through which to explore the multiplicity of voices that inhabit it, cannibalizing a wide range of his predecessors -- from the Classical Nahuatl singers of the Aztec empire to the contemporary poets of Mexico City -- to scrape away the...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550716306

ISBN10: 1550716301

English

Louise Aubert leaves Mathieu Lord when he joins the Stalinist party. Fifteen years later, she writes a letter in which she dares express her vision of their common history, marked by authoritarianism, mental cruelty and the absence of sharing in the name of love. In the story that follows this...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550716931

ISBN10: 155071693X

English

Three Canadian soldiers awaiting deployment to Afghanistan beat a homeless man to death on the steps of their armoury after a night of heavy drinking. The poet, whose downtown Toronto home overlooks the armoury and surrounding park, describes the crime, its perpetrators, the victim, and a cast of homeless witnesses...

Guernica Editions

Kindle

ISBN13: 9781550716955

ISBN10: 1550716956

English

Three Canadian soldiers awaiting deployment to Afghanistan beat a homeless man to death on the steps of their armoury after a night of heavy drinking. The poet, whose downtown Toronto home overlooks the armoury and surrounding park, describes the crime, its perpetrators, the victim, and a cast of homeless witnesses...

Guernica Editions

ePub

ISBN13: 9781550716313

ISBN10: 155071631X

English

Louise Aubert leaves Mathieu Lord when he joins the Stalinist party. Fifteen years later, she writes a letter in which she dares express her vision of their common history, marked by authoritarianism, mental cruelty and the absence of sharing in the name of love. In the story that follows this...

Guernica Editions

Kindle

ISBN13: 9781550716320

ISBN10: 1550716328

English

Louise Aubert leaves Mathieu Lord when he joins the Stalinist party. Fifteen years later, she writes a letter in which she dares express her vision of their common history, marked by authoritarianism, mental cruelty and the absence of sharing in the name of love. In the story that follows this...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550716542

ISBN10: 1550716549

English

From celebrated Toronto poet, Domenico Capilongo, comes a collection of powerful and humorous stories inspired by love: the love of family and tradition, the passion shared between two people when love is found, and the impact felt when it is misunderstood and lost. These stories travel the globe from Toronto...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550713657

ISBN10: 1550713655

English

A classic short fiction writer, Wade Bell lets his characters do the talking for him, electing to stay in the background. His style is simple but he's not afraid to pry open the heart of a character and expose it for all the world to see. Bell's latest collection features...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550716092

ISBN10: 1550716093

English

Born into Somali royalty and Saudi Arabian wealth, Fatma is given away in infancy and, at age 12, forced into an arranged marriage with a young Peace Corps worker. Prejudice and cultural demands lead to a number of painful promises that will dictate the course of her life on two...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550713282

ISBN10: 1550713280

English

Michael Mirolla's poetic world is one where a mirror - or any simple reflective item - is tilted ever so slightly, providing an opening to places we would never have imagined existed. (One of them is his own birth, from the inside, looking reluctantly out.) The poet is a metaphysical...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550713428

ISBN10: 1550713426

English

Italians as indentured labourers in Southern cotton plantations at the turn of the twentieth century? Entire families scrabbling to survive, dying of malaria, building relationships with their neighbours, many the first generation of freed slaves? Sweet Hope unleashes the little known story of Italians who came looking for a better...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550713428

ISBN10: 1550713426

English

Italians as indentured labourers in Southern cotton plantations at the turn of the twentieth century? Entire families scrabbling to survive, dying of malaria, building relationships with their neighbours, many the first generation of freed slaves? Sweet Hope unleashes the little known story of Italians who came looking for a better...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550713411

ISBN10: 1550713418

English

In this, her second book, Catherine Black weaves together the wonder, heartache, and "unlovely beauty"of a youth that is by turns charmed and disquieting. Straddling genres of memoir, prose, and poetry, A Hard Gold Thread delights in the layering of keenly observed moments, in the subtle play of remembering and...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550713145

ISBN10: 1550713140

English

Images overrun the world. Toons filled with rage and hate hunger for life. A war between simulations and humans. People besieged in a castle of dreams. A mysterious knight shifts between worlds, holding the secret that could save all. Orphaned children lead him to the whirlwind, the terrible faceless source....

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550713350

ISBN10: 1550713353

English

The Cure Is a Forest probes the various processes of growth and transformation among all living things in deep ecology. An element of animism permeates throughout the poems which are set in and against the backdrop of Canada's ecotones, greenwoods, and lakes. The Cure Is a Forest is an odyssey...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550713480

ISBN10: 1550713485

English

Part distilled observation, part imaginative act, part spiritual expedition, the lyrically-idiosyncratic poems in Startled Night plumb the struggle of integrating the shadow, of coming into personhood and love--through the life processes of encounter and crisis, also through the chiaroscuro of art, image, and word. The decisive moment is perpetual, which...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550713428

ISBN10: 1550713426

English

Italians as indentured labourers in Southern cotton plantations at the turn of the twentieth century? Entire families scrabbling to survive, dying of malaria, building relationships with their neighbours, many the first generation of freed slaves? Sweet Hope unleashes the little known story of Italians who came looking for a better...

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550713367

ISBN10: 1550713361

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In her first collection of poems, Suzanne Robertson meditates on the nature of intimacy; the connective tissue that binds stranger to stranger, human to animal, soul to landscape, heart to mind. Inspired by the Buddhist paramitas -- actions that spark a spiritual sojourn, the poems attempt to both transcend and...

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ISBN13: 9781550713367

ISBN10: 1550713361

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In her first collection of poems, Suzanne Robertson meditates on the nature of intimacy; the connective tissue that binds stranger to stranger, human to animal, soul to landscape, heart to mind. Inspired by the Buddhist paramitas -- actions that spark a spiritual sojourn, the poems attempt to both transcend and...

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ISBN13: 9781550713046

ISBN10: 1550713043

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In What We Pass On: Collected Poems: 1980-2009, Maria Mazziotti Gillan weaves a tapestry of one woman's life -- wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, grand-daughter, Italian American. Reading these poems in one volume makes us acutely aware of how memory is layered, each new poem adding another detail, another color,...

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ISBN13: 9781550713213

ISBN10: 1550713213

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Bodies float in rapture, and in death, transported by waves of pleasure, or lapped by failure, fallen, having flown too close to the sun. The poems in this collection are at once macabre and ecstatic, probing the body by means of metaphysics and transcendence through pure sensuality. They...

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ISBN13: 9781550713169

ISBN10: 1550713167

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The poetry in Marimba Forever is concerned with love and longing, which the author displays in all their multifarious guises. Many of the poems can be regarded as small films: nourish, action, farce or slapstick; others call music to mind: a tenor saxophone improvising on a standard melody in the...

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ISBN13: 9781550713282

ISBN10: 1550713280

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Michael Mirolla's poetic world is one where a mirror - or any simple reflective item - is tilted ever so slightly, providing an opening to places we would never have imagined existed. (One of them is his own birth, from the inside, looking reluctantly out.) The poet is a metaphysical...

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ISBN13: 9781550712773

ISBN10: 1550712772

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In this postmodern novel about shifting views of history, a young journalist covering the visit of a French prime minister to Quebec becomes fascinated by a newspaper photograph of historic Trestler House. Curious about how such a landmark sheds light on the difference between personal and national identity, she decides...

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ISBN13: 9781550712971

ISBN10: 1550712977

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Set in New York, Tehran, Port au Prince and Tegucigalpa, Octopus Intelligence tells the story of two desperate men. One, a former intelligence contractor suffering from a mysterious ailment, has returned home to find an oblique message spelled out on his bedroom floor. Another, a self-medicating paleontologist, has just discovered...

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ISBN13: 9781550713077

ISBN10: 1550713078

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In Exploding into Night, Sandy Pool delves into the heart of a grisly murder that took place in the Parkdale area of Toronto. With its dazzling turns and deafening silence, this narrative poem is a stark reappraisal of urban existence and its heartache. Pool's metaphysical landscape speaks in multiple voices...

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ISBN13: 9781550713015

ISBN10: 1550713019

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Orioles in the Oranges is an exquisitely told story of a destructive modern love, woven together with a famous Métis legend of Pelee Island - involving a young woman who plunged to her death in Lake Erie after being abandoned by her English husband. Janisse's own Metis heritage, as well...

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ISBN13: 9781550713084

ISBN10: 1550713086

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In Slender Human Weight, Sue Chenette explores a world both familiar and mysterious. She finds, in her mother's attic, in the French countryside, and in her own home, the richness of physical objects as they embody what is felt, dreamed, longed for, and remembered.

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ISBN13: 9781550713077

ISBN10: 1550713078

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In Exploding into Night, Sandy Pool delves into the heart of a grisly murder that took place in the Parkdale area of Toronto. With its dazzling turns and deafening silence, this narrative poem is a stark reappraisal of urban existence and its heartache. Pool's metaphysical landscape speaks in multiple voices...

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ISBN13: 9781550712209

ISBN10: 1550712209

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Set in Santa Cruz, California; San Remo, Italy; Paris, France; and a fictional town called Pottersville, North Carolina from the 1950s through the 1980s, Claiming Kin tells the story of two intertwined families and their battles and conflicts over kinship.

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ISBN13: 9781550712629

ISBN10: 1550712624

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Revealing the instability of location and the illusory nature of identity, this poetry collection traces the edges where the multidimensional blends, blurs, and merges, envisioning a place where form is formless and perception boundless. Taking its title from Emily Carr's Klee Wyck, which describes a strip of land that belongs...

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ISBN13: 9781550712209

ISBN10: 1550712209

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Set in Santa Cruz, California; San Remo, Italy; Paris, France; and a fictional town called Pottersville, North Carolina from the 1950s through the 1980s, Claiming Kin tells the story of two intertwined families and their battles and conflicts over kinship.

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ISBN13: 9781550712599

ISBN10: 1550712594

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With humor and poignancy, Marisa Labozzetta's stories expose the social and sexual turmoil of men and women in the time as she puts it "the old age of youth." In "The Knife Lady," a seemingly happily married suburbanite receives a jolt of sexual panic with the visit of a woman...

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ISBN13: 9781550712926

ISBN10: 1550712926

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Siamese twins, circus performers, burn victims, and scientists all clash in this vibrant and vivid collection. Throughout the poems, the experimental voice fills the page with broken lines, jump cuts, and a sense of nervous music. Merging poetry with theoretical science, this work occupies the gap between gravity and escape,...

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ISBN13: 9781550713534

ISBN10: 1550713531

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The woman speaking in these poems is speaking of the body. Though she has a body with a head, she has a head that fails to understand her body. She is a woman whose head understands a language, but one not shared by the man she loves or wants to...

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ISBN13: 9781550712612

ISBN10: 1550712616

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Constructed in the form of a memoir, these poems take on an emotional tone as the author details the story of her life. The collection is populated by her memories of childhood, courtships and marriage, family illness, children, and grandchildren. At its core is a woman struggling to deal with...

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ISBN13: 9781550712612

ISBN10: 1550712616

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Constructed in the form of a memoir, these poems take on an emotional tone as the author details the story of her life. The collection is populated by her memories of childhood, courtships and marriage, family illness, children, and grandchildren. At its core is a woman struggling to deal with...

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ISBN13: 9781550712476

ISBN10: 1550712470

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In these poems, told from the writer's home on the outskirts of the city, dreams recur, lore emerges, memory merges with imagination, artifice with nature, and the physical with other possibilities. In choosing Elana Wolff as the 2004 Lichen Serial Poet, poet and critic David Solway writes of the winning...

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ISBN13: 9781550712476

ISBN10: 1550712470

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In these poems, told from the writer's home on the outskirts of the city, dreams recur, lore emerges, memory merges with imagination, artifice with nature, and the physical with other possibilities. In choosing Elana Wolff as the 2004 Lichen Serial Poet, poet and critic David Solway writes of the winning...

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ISBN13: 9781550712483

ISBN10: 1550712489

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Merle Nudelman plumbs the nuances and vagaries which define our relationships and the shifting moments of lover, abuser, victim, and healer. The imagery in We, the Women is at once startling and evocative. Poems of layered scenes of domesticity and of the natural world border on the elegiac. In this...

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ISBN13: 9781550711707

ISBN10: 1550711709

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This rich narrative follows a young man through Italy as he searches for his ancestral roots as well as his own identity. His pilgrimage, one that becomes sacred to the aspiring author as he searches for an authentic voice, takes him through Venice, Florence, Rome, and the Italian countryside where...

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ISBN13: 9781550711806

ISBN10: 1550711806

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Weaving together complex layers of personal and political history, this collection of poems traces a Jewish family's path from 1930s Europe to 21st-century Canada. Recalling the delicate, enduring family bonds that have held fast through war and peacetime, these poems find lyric expression for the past century's traumas, large and small.

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ISBN13: 9781550711806

ISBN10: 1550711806

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Weaving together complex layers of personal and political history, this collection of poems traces a Jewish family's path from 1930s Europe to 21st-century Canada. Recalling the delicate, enduring family bonds that have held fast through war and peacetime, these poems find lyric expression for the past century's traumas, large and small.

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ISBN13: 9781550711318

ISBN10: 1550711318

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In her new collection, Travis Lane speaks of the 'impermanent elation' that 'a word,/ like a live fish in water, sometimes shows.' The language of Keeping Afloat flashes with wit, sensuousness, and a combination of faith (elation) and skepticism (impermanence). In a time when too many poets favour fragments or...

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ISBN13: 9781550711486

ISBN10: 1550711482

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A self-reflective exploration in healing, the speaker of these poems confronts memories of her violent father. Throughout her collection, the poet contemplates the type of father she wanted while remembering the positive influences that molded her childhood. Recalling the women who nurtured and comforted her, the author achieves a sense...

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ISBN13: 9781550711103

ISBN10: 1550711105

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A selection of poems by Fulvio Caccia who won the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1994 for this poetry collection entitled Aknos, published by Guernica and later translated into English.

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ISBN13: 9781550711226

ISBN10: 1550711229

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In this memoir Penny Petrone tells what it was like growing up in Northern Ontario as the daughter of parents who moved to Canada from the class-bound feudal society of Southern Italy during the first quarter of the century when America was the dream of millions of Europeans.

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ISBN13: 9781550711172

ISBN10: 1550711172

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This novel consists of two stories that become one. The first recounts the delusions of a poor Italian peasant, and the second tells us of the way power is exercised Mafia-style by a prominent member of the Italian community.

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ISBN13: 9781550710823

ISBN10: 1550710826

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Fabrizio's Passion is the author's English-language version of his French-language novel, Avril ou l'anti-passion. This baroque novel, divided into twenty-five chapters, explores the different facets of an Italian family living in North America. It is through the technique of a multi-voiced narrative that the readers are permitted to see what...

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ISBN13: 9781550710892

ISBN10: 1550710893

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Round-the-clock news on the war in the Gulf, and a modern Penelope sees what is happening in the trenches of that distant place of Troy from the TV perch of America's safe Olympian domain. A fine first book of poems.

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ISBN13: 9781550710922

ISBN10: 1550710923

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Karen Shenfeld explores the meaning of family, memory and return. She draws her inspiration from a variety of sources, including Jewish mystical tradition and personal travels in Africa and Asia.

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ISBN13: 9781550710229

ISBN10: 1550710222

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These are stories of women searching for identity and place and purpose in an international world of professors and bricklayers, mafiosi and hockey stars. The stories of these women are contained in those moments when different cultures and different values intersect, when dislocation and fragmentation lead to awareness. Edwards takes...

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ISBN13: 9781550710489

ISBN10: 1550710486

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This selection is the first-time translation of Caccia's poetry which appeared in the original French-language Aknos, winner of the Governor General's Award of Canada in 1994.

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ISBN13: 9781550711004

ISBN10: 1550711008

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An experiment in what the author terms "speculative history," this novel tracks the movements of a man haunted by the spirit of his deceased mother and dogged by the notion that Astoria - the Italian neighborhood in Queens where his mother grew up in the 1920s - is the true...

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ISBN13: 9781550710014

ISBN10: 155071001X

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This book is the first part of Gianna Patriarca's trilogy on Italian women. Winner of the Milton Acorn award, the collection remains popular today almost 20 years after it was first published.

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ISBN13: 9780920717882

ISBN10: 0920717888

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Incorporating America's obsessive fascination with the 'mafia', sex and violence, Benedetta in Guysterland tells the story of America's relationship with Italy and debunks the traditional stereotype of the Italian/American gangster. The story told here is about change and the breaking away from roots that happens to all cultural border crossers.

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ISBN13: 9780920717875

ISBN10: 092071787X

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Filip's fourth collection of poetry deals with cultural identity in a pluralistic society, gender issues, and our place in the celestial neighbourhood. Fresh, defiant, unconventional, this book is a virtuoso performance.

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ISBN13: 9781550710489

ISBN10: 1550710486

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This selection is the first-time translation of Caccia's poetry which appeared in the original French-language Aknos, winner of the Governor General's Award of Canada in 1994.

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ISBN13: 9782891350334

ISBN10: 2891350332

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Le lecteur trouvera ici rassemblée pour la première fois en un seul volume toute l'oeuvre poétique, éditée et inéditée, de Fulvio Caccia: Irpinia, Scirocco, Annapurna, et Aknos.

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ISBN13: 9780920717462

ISBN10: 0920717462

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This is a translation of a selection of Marie Uguay's poems from the three books she wrote before her death: Signe et rumeur (1976), L'outre-vie (1979), and a posthumous volume, Autoportraits (1982). The three collections, including previously unpublished texts, were republished in 1986 under the title Poems.

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ISBN13: 9780920717363

ISBN10: 0920717365

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This bilingual edition features the third collection of poetry from Romano Perticarini, who emigrated to Canada at the age of 33. It also earned the author a Bressani Award.

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ISBN13: 9782891350341

ISBN10: 2891350340

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In this book, myth and autobiography coexist, intermingle. The emotions and imagination of the poet draw directly from Mediterranean mythology to find a new myth that could relieve her self-uprooted exile. The myth of Hecate, in Entre les fleuves, fuels Nadine Ltaif's creative impulse and poetic imagery.

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ISBN13: 9782891350198

ISBN10: 2891350197

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Les Âges de l'amour c'est le givre et le feu, l'eau et les flammes, la dentelle et le fer. C'est le vent et l'ouragan, parfois le grondement du volcan, mais c'est aussi la rive rieuse sur lacquelle l'amante vient se coucher, aimer et se fair bercer. -- Madeleine Gagnon

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ISBN13: 9780919349902

ISBN10: 0919349900

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In queste pagine che si decide un esempio di vita, / di prospettive, di rinunce./ Mi hai capito,/ legato/ guidato dove volevi;/ eccomi qui a finire questo giorno nel cortile,/ sotto la pioggia,/ a scrivere pensieri di gesso/ ad aspettare che tu venga a parlarmi,/ a dimri di non andarmene./...

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ISBN13: 9780919349926

ISBN10: 0919349927

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A translation of a collection of poems, many of which are set in New York City as the poet travels through an imaginary landscape.

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ISBN13: 9780919349629

ISBN10: 0919349625

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L'ens dessous l'admirable describes Jacques Brault's inward, spiritual journey, with its risk of despair and desolation. It is essentially a grim voyage. Alone, in no man's land, drawn by the inevitability of death, tempted by the thought of release, the poet descends a dark road. There he encounters the mysterious,...

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ISBN13: 9780920717356

ISBN10: 0920717357

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This historic collection, the first of its kind, is devoted to the discussion of Italian-Canadian writers publishing in English, in French or in Italian. These critical essays include analyses of some important writing: F.G. Paci's Black Madonna, the poetry of Mary di Michele and Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, the plays...

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ISBN13: 9782891350105

ISBN10: 2891350103

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ISBN13: 9780919349155

ISBN10: 0919349153

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Remembering History records events of the past and present, of here and everywhere. What has or might have happened come together to form the imaginary world Rhea Tregebov does not fear to criticize. She puts herself inside the history of women and remembers the details of actions which have subtly...

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ISBN13: 9780919349193

ISBN10: 0919349196

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Although his work has appeared in most of Canada's prestigious magazines, Fables for Isloated Men is Barry Dempster's first collection of poems. What in this book seems at first an innocent consideration of the workings of convention and habit turns out to be a superlatively crafted study of what really...

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