Fish Wrapped
True Confessions from Newsrooms Past
David Sherman
2020
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834988
ISBN10: 1771834986
English
Essays by Canadian newspaper reporters and editors on their lives in the news business before social media: "Here are their eulogies to lives dedicated to the fish-wrap business, many of whom, to stretch a metaphor, ended up as obsolete and tossed aside as the fish wrap they churned out."
Fish Wrapped
True Confessions from Newsrooms Past
David Sherman
2020
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834995
ISBN10: 1771834994
English
Essays by Canadian newspaper reporters and editors on their lives in the news business before social media: "Here are their eulogies to lives dedicated to the fish-wrap business, many of whom, to stretch a metaphor, ended up as obsolete and tossed aside as the fish wrap they churned out."
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550715408
English
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...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550715415
English
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...
Food Fight Inc.
Napkin Sketches to Retail Shelves: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey of Triumph and Lemons
Bruno Codispoti
2017
ePub
Guernica Editions (MiroLand)
ISBN13: 9781771832250
ISBN10: 1771832258
English
What do Jamie Oliver, Pope Saint John Paul II, Sammy Hagar, and *NSYNC have in common? They all play a role in Food Fight Inc., a colourful collection of Bruno Codispoti's sweet successes and sour lemons in his two-decade-long efforts to bring unique retail food products to the marketplace. Bruno's...
Food Fight Inc.
Napkin Sketches to Retail Shelves: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey of Triumphs and Lemons
Bruno Codispoti
2017
Kindle
Guernica Editions (MiroLand)
ISBN13: 9781771832267
ISBN10: 1771832266
English
What do Jamie Oliver, Pope Saint John Paul II, Sammy Hagar, and *NSYNC have in common? They all play a role in Food Fight Inc., a colourful collection of Bruno Codispoti's sweet successes and sour lemons in his two-decade-long efforts to bring unique retail food products to the marketplace. Bruno's...
Beverly Ellenbogen
2010
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550715460
English
In Footsteps on the Ceiling, Baila Ellenbogen explores the overlapping planes of existence her experience and intellectual curiosity have led her to inhabit, reliving childhood memories while questions of faith and domestic responsibilities collide. With a combination of personal, lyrical, and mystical images, the poet examines our ability to love...
Beverly Ellenbogen
2010
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550715477
English
In Footsteps on the Ceiling, Baila Ellenbogen explores the overlapping planes of existence her experience and intellectual curiosity have led her to inhabit, reliving childhood memories while questions of faith and domestic responsibilities collide. With a combination of personal, lyrical, and mystical images, the poet examines our ability to love...
Mia Lecomte, Johanna Bishop, Brenda Porster
2011
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550713725
ISBN10: 1550713728
English, Italian
Most contemporary poets wear their cultural and artistic influences on their sleeve. Picking up a book in an English language bookstore, it is easy to see where the poet is coming from, either geographically, or culturally (ironic and formal; confessional and free etc). This may seem reductive until you read...
Mia Lecomte, Johanna Bishop, Brenda Porster
2011
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550713855
ISBN10: 155071385X
English, Italian
Most contemporary poets wear their cultural and artistic influences on their sleeve. Picking up a book in an English language bookstore, it is easy to see where the poet is coming from, either geographically, or culturally (ironic and formal; confessional and free etc). This may seem reductive until you read...
Catherine Lalonde, Nora Alleyn
2011
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550713763
ISBN10: 1550713760
English
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...
Catherine Lalonde, Nora Alleyn
2011
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550713770
ISBN10: 1550713779
English
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...
Frank Lentricchia
Essays on His Works
Thomas DePietro
2011
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550715224
English
Frank Lentricchia changed his literary focus from criticism and theory to fiction back in the 1980s, and since then he has produced six novels of great aesthetic range and interest. This collection of essays and reviews concerns that fictional output from Johnny Critelli to The Book of Ruth. Lentricchia has...
Frank Lentricchia
Essays on His Works
Thomas DePietro
2011
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550715231
English
Frank Lentricchia changed his literary focus from criticism and theory to fiction back in the 1980s, and since then he has produced six novels of great aesthetic range and interest. This collection of essays and reviews concerns that fictional output from Johnny Critelli to The Book of Ruth. Lentricchia has...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550714005
ISBN10: 1550714007
English
The poems in this selection were written and published between 1954 and 1977, except for two poems which have never appeared in book form before. Fred Cogswell writes crystalline poems. A Cogswell poem is the result of concentration; this intentional focusing on a particular person or thing, or language itself...
Fred Cogswell
2011
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550714012
ISBN10: 1550714015
English
The poems in this selection were written and published between 1954 and 1977, except for two poems which have never appeared in book form before. Fred Cogswell writes crystalline poems. A Cogswell poem is the result of concentration; this intentional focusing on a particular person or thing, or language itself...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771830515
ISBN10: 1771830514
English
Freeze is an allegorical comedy play that dramatizes the Great Ice Storm of '98 as a metaphor presaging “cooler” more inclusive times in Quebec compared to the separatist firestorms of earlier decades. Five quirky Montrealers, trapped in a power-outed duplex, butt heads in candlelight over love, language and politics, provoking...
Stephen Orlov
2016
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771830522
ISBN10: 1771830522
English
Freeze is an allegorical comedy play that dramatizes the Great Ice Storm of '98 as a metaphor presaging “cooler” more inclusive times in Quebec compared to the separatist firestorms of earlier decades. Five quirky Montrealers, trapped in a power-outed duplex, butt heads in candlelight over love, language and politics, provoking...
Adriana A. Davies
2021
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771836555
ISBN10: 1771836555
English
From Sojourners to Citizens: Alberta's Italian History brings to life the untold story of Italian immigrants in Alberta from the 1880s to the present. It places them in the narrative of province building from work on railways, mines and other industries to breaking the land for agriculture. Oral history excerpts...
Adriana A. Davies
2021
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771836562
ISBN10: 1771836563
English
From Sojourners to Citizens: Alberta's Italian History brings to life the untold story of Italian immigrants in Alberta from the 1880s to the present. It places them in the narrative of province building from work on railways, mines and other industries to breaking the land for agriculture. Oral history excerpts...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550717334
ISBN10: 1550717332
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...
Henry Beissel
2013
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550717341
ISBN10: 1550717340
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...
Guernica Editions (MiroLand)
ISBN13: 9781771835930
ISBN10: 1771835931
English
Drawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the bi-racial female body and identity, especially as it butts up against the disparate expectations of each culture. Painfully and at times, reluctantly, Fuse probes and explores...
Hollay Ghadery
2021
Kindle
Guernica Editions (MiroLand)
ISBN13: 9781771835947
ISBN10: 177183594X
English
Drawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the bi-racial female body and identity, especially as it butts up against the disparate expectations of each culture. Painfully and at times, reluctantly, Fuse probes and explores...
Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)
ISBN13: 9781771834322
ISBN10: 1771834323
English
Daniella believes her lost mother is a World War II spy, but is terrorized by a dream of a war-torn jungle, raining fire. At forty, with her life and career stalled, Daniella is visited by four dead ancestors, who try to help her put her life back together. When this...
Laura Marello
2019
Kindle
Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)
ISBN13: 9781771834339
ISBN10: 1771834331
English
Daniella believes her lost mother is a World War II spy, but is terrorized by a dream of a war-torn jungle, raining fire. At forty, with her life and career stalled, Daniella is visited by four dead ancestors, who try to help her put her life back together. When this...
Get Onboard
Walk in the Shoes of a Transit Operator
Richard Lee
2015
ePub
Guernica Editions (MiroLand)
ISBN13: 9781771831307
ISBN10: 1771831308
English
Success and promotion within Toronto's public transportation system come at a price. The shifts bring both physical and mental stress. The effects of these seep from work life into the social and personal lives of the operators. Parallel to this is the author's own personal story, a moving portrayal of...
Get Onboard
Walk in the Shoes of a Transit Operator
Richard Lee
2015
Kindle
Guernica Editions (MiroLand)
ISBN13: 9781771831314
ISBN10: 1771831316
English
Success and promotion within Toronto's public transportation system come at a price. The shifts bring both physical and mental stress. The effects of these seep from work life into the social and personal lives of the operators. Parallel to this is the author's own personal story, a moving portrayal of...
Robert Flanagan
2013
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550716528
ISBN10: 1550716522
English, French, Italian, Spanish
In tight, compact words that resemble an unravelling DNA code of life, poet Robert Flanagan contemplates mortality in his latest collection, Giant Sky of The Shepherds. Flanagan's poetry is essential, incantatory, and almost shamanistic in its ability to cast spells that transport the reader to invaluable inner worlds.
Robert Flanagan
2013
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550716535
ISBN10: 1550716530
English, French, Italian, Spanish
In tight, compact words that resemble an unravelling DNA code of life, poet Robert Flanagan contemplates mortality in his latest collection, Giant Sky of The Shepherds. Flanagan's poetry is essential, incantatory, and almost shamanistic in its ability to cast spells that transport the reader to invaluable inner worlds.