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ISBN13: 9781771832885
ISBN10: 1771832886
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
ISBN13: 9781771832892
ISBN10: 1771832894
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
ISBN13: 9781550719345
ISBN10: 1550719343
English
In a letter that she writes to a certain Théodore, the narrator in Images evokes a tumultuous period in her life: her adolescence. During this period, filled with anxiety and panic, she found help and comfort from Dorothée, a young woman barely older than her, who helped her escape her...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550719352
ISBN10: 1550719351
English
In a letter that she writes to a certain Théodore, the narrator in Images evokes a tumultuous period in her life: her adolescence. During this period, filled with anxiety and panic, she found help and comfort from Dorothée, a young woman barely older than her, who helped her escape her...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771832441
ISBN10: 1771832444
English
Immortal Water is an extraordinary tale of the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon and a retired history teacher, Ross Porter. In parallel, interlaced plots both men suffer life altering crises. As age steals away their powers they obsess in a quixotic search for the mythical Fountain of Youth. Each...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771832458
ISBN10: 1771832452
English
Immortal Water is an extraordinary tale of the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon and a retired history teacher, Ross Porter. In parallel, interlaced plots both men suffer life altering crises. As age steals away their powers they obsess in a quixotic search for the mythical Fountain of Youth. Each...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550715446
English
The thirty-three authors whose poems appear in this collection are: Jonathan Bennett, Rosemary Blake, Allan Briesmaster, Robin Blackburn, Clara Blackwood, James Clarke, Ron Charach, Margaret Christakos, Antonio D'Alfonso, Christopher Doda, Kate Marshall Flaherty, Keith Garebian, Ellen S. Jaffe, Steven Laird, John B. Lee, Malca Litovitz, Laura Lush, Joseph Maviglia,...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550715453
English
The thirty-three authors whose poems appear in this collection are: Jonathan Bennett, Rosemary Blake, Allan Briesmaster, Robin Blackburn, Clara Blackwood, James Clarke, Ron Charach, Margaret Christakos, Antonio D'Alfonso, Christopher Doda, Kate Marshall Flaherty, Keith Garebian, Ellen S. Jaffe, Steven Laird, John B. Lee, Malca Litovitz, Laura Lush, Joseph Maviglia,...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550717099
ISBN10: 155071709X
English
In this satirical take on the goings on in the halls of academia, Christian private-college style, Ricapito tells the story of Bert Russo, a naive professor who learns the hard way that making waves (especially political ones) can lead to dire consequences. In the end, having exposed the hypocrisy and...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550717105
ISBN10: 1550717103
English
In this satirical take on the goings on in the halls of academia, Christian private-college style, Ricapito tells the story of Bert Russo, a naive professor who learns the hard way that making waves (especially political ones) can lead to dire consequences. In the end, having exposed the hypocrisy and...
Guernica Editions (MiroLand)
ISBN13: 9781771832373
ISBN10: 1771832371
English
Attempting to make sense of her life, and change her sad disposition
to a happy one, the author of In the Backyard: Relearning the
Art of Aging, Dying and Making Love seeks out the help of her
in-house therapist/husband, Dr. George Nemeth. The accredited
psychologist's answers to the big questions provide a compassionate
and...
Guernica Editions (MiroLand)
ISBN13: 9781771832380
ISBN10: 177183238X
English
Attempting to make sense of her life, and change her sad disposition
to a happy one, the author of In the Backyard: Relearning the
Art of Aging, Dying and Making Love seeks out the help of her
in-house therapist/husband, Dr. George Nemeth. The accredited
psychologist's answers to the big questions provide a compassionate
and...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550717693
English
In the Silence Absence Makes is a poetic mystery, a nightmare, an elegy. A lost girl and the loss of innocence, both of the child and the society she is part of. Poems like the photos on the front pages of today's newspaper.
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550717921
English
In the Silence Absence Makes is a poetic mystery, a nightmare, an elegy. A lost girl and the loss of innocence, both of the child and the society she is part of. Poems like the photos on the front pages of today's newspaper.
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771830218
ISBN10: 1771830212
English
Two black men: the poet, an elder and veteran of last century's civil rights movement; and a nameless youth, swaggering and beltless, seduced by guns-and-gangs and expensive cars, and perpetually targeted by police. They are brothers by the colour of their skin, neighbours in the same “crib,” yet separated by...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771830225
ISBN10: 1771830220
English
Two black men: the poet, an elder and veteran of last century's civil rights movement; and a nameless youth, swaggering and beltless, seduced by guns-and-gangs and expensive cars, and perpetually targeted by police. They are brothers by the colour of their skin, neighbours in the same “crib,” yet separated by...
Vlado Kreslin, Urška Charney
2012
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550716375
ISBN10: 1550716379
English
Kreslin's poetry is a beautiful aesthetic experience, evocative and subtle, particularly rich in natural imagery. There are clear themes that run like veins throughout it: the Mura River (which winds through Prekmurje), the ubiquitous storks of Prekmurje and other avian images, an appreciation for gypsy culture (particularly their musical traditions),...
Vlado Kreslin, Urška Charney
2012
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550716382
ISBN10: 1550716387
English
Kreslin's poetry is a beautiful aesthetic experience, evocative and subtle, particularly rich in natural imagery. There are clear themes that run like veins throughout it: the Mura River (which winds through Prekmurje), the ubiquitous storks of Prekmurje and other avian images, an appreciation for gypsy culture (particularly their musical traditions),...
Loretta Gatto-White, Delia De Santis
2013
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550716764
ISBN10: 155071676X
English
The persistence of misconceptions about Italian-Canadian food culture raises many questions for us. Are we gluttonous, inebriate and too loud? Do we force-feed guests? Are we in fact food-obsessed? How many grains of truth can a stereotype hold? We had to know, so we asked articulate and thoughtful Italian-Canadian writers...
Loretta Gatto-White, Delia De Santis
2013
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550716771
ISBN10: 1550716778
English
The persistence of misconceptions about Italian-Canadian food culture raises many questions for us. Are we gluttonous, inebriate and too loud? Do we force-feed guests? Are we in fact food-obsessed? How many grains of truth can a stereotype hold? We had to know, so we asked articulate and thoughtful Italian-Canadian writers...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550714104
English
This book is the first part of Patriarca's trilogy on Italian women.
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550714111
English
This book is the first part of Patriarca's trilogy on Italian women.
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550717501
English
Written to read like a memoir, this collection of poetry details the life of a family across generations and provides a moving and haunting portrait of the Italian mother who is the center around which this family revolves. But this is much more than a story about ethnicity; it transcends...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550717730
English
Written to read like a memoir, this collection of poetry details the life of a family across generations and provides a moving and haunting portrait of the Italian mother who is the center around which this family revolves. But this is much more than a story about ethnicity; it transcends...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550719161
ISBN10: 1550719165
English
In this volume Alberto Di Giovanni presents us with a wide panorama of the recent history of Canada and its social development, while offering a compelling story of the long journey of the Italian community in Canada, and with Canada. Di Giovanni walks again on the long trail of the...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550719178
ISBN10: 1550719173
English
In this volume Alberto Di Giovanni presents us with a wide panorama of the recent history of Canada and its social development, while offering a compelling story of the long journey of the Italian community in Canada, and with Canada. Di Giovanni walks again on the long trail of the...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771831789
ISBN10: 1771831782
English
Compiled and edited by Sandra Singer, J. J. Steinfeld: Essays on His Works is a critical look at PEI writer J. J. Steinfeld's extensive and prolific writings in poetry, fiction and theatre, ranging from early work on post-Holocaust themes to later examinations of absurdity and existentialism. Among the contributors: Raina...
Sandra Singer, George Elliott Clarke, Ellen S. Jaffe
2017
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771831796
ISBN10: 1771831790
English
Compiled and edited by Sandra Singer, J. J. Steinfeld: Essays on His Works is a critical look at PEI writer J. J. Steinfeld's extensive and prolific writings in poetry, fiction and theatre, ranging from early work on post-Holocaust themes to later examinations of absurdity and existentialism. Among the contributors: Raina...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550717587
ISBN10: 1550717588
English
Whether it's Toronto, a French or Italian town, Pierre L'Abbe's stories are rich with a sense of place where the ambiance and characters fuse in a loaded sense of expectation. The characters, much like those in Henry James, challenge the norms of their overbearing societies. Nothing turns out as expected,...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550717815
ISBN10: 1550717812
English
Whether it's Toronto, a French or Italian town, Pierre L'Abbe's stories are rich with a sense of place where the ambiance and characters fuse in a loaded sense of expectation. The characters, much like those in Henry James, challenge the norms of their overbearing societies. Nothing turns out as expected,...