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ISBN13: 9781550717143
ISBN10: 1550717146
English
A sense of place has always dominated Louise McKinney's writing life. This poetry collection represents the best of her poetry written from the early 1980s to now. More than depicting mere geographical adventuring, this work expresses the poet's personal vision and emphasizes the importance of living out one's potential. This...
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ISBN13: 9781550713336
ISBN10: 1550713337
English
Contrary to the opinion expressed by some regarding the senselessness of contemporary poetry, I have always been tormented with this search for sense. Fuck it, do I or do I not make sense? And what the fuck is the sense of life around me and of me, myself ... These...
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ISBN13: 9781550719758
ISBN10: 1550719750
English
Hélène Monette wrote this book to honour her sister Thérèse, who passed away in 2005. True to her sister's vision, the poet explores the wonder inhabiting the present moment. With this collection, which was awarded the prestigious Governor General's Award in 2009, the poet offers a celebration of the bond...
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ISBN13: 9781550710212
ISBN10: 1550710214
English
These poems are a breath of fresh air -- luminous, feisty, heart-breaking, and fiercely honest. Maria Mazziotti Gillan's voice has the vigor and industrial grit of Grace Paley's, and there is genuine wisdom here too -- an intelligence born of direct experience of the mother-daughter mysteries.
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ISBN13: 9781550713732
ISBN10: 1550713736
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In French, Tombeau de Lou. At its origin, the death of the childhood friend, the chosen sister, swept away by a sudden cancer. She was fifty-three. Like the poet. The one who remains, the survivor, the inconsolable woman. That's the anecdote. Afterwards -- if an afterwards is possible, the urgency...
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ISBN13: 9781550717174
ISBN10: 1550717170
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COCKEYED: askew, crooked, intoxicated, absurd; marked by bends or angles; incongruous, not straight. In other words, Jim Christy, Canada's most iconoclastic and irreverent poet, views this cockeyed world the way it is; not only with 20/20 but x-ray vision and often through laughter and tears.
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ISBN13: 9780920717660
ISBN10: 0920717667
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...We started to read aloud, each in turn, from Judith Cowan's translation and my original. Then the miracle occurred: two citizens of this land breaking down word by word ...all the angry pride, the incomprehension, and the dull and stupid soliloquies that have been the distinguishing characteristic of our peoples'...
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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: 9781550713053
ISBN10: 1550713051
English
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ISBN13: 9781771830997
ISBN10: 1771830999
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Tidal Fury intermeshes styles in narratorial strands. A love story -- he was “a literary device, and then I discovered we knew each other intimately.” An aged narcissist who wields power and invokes a subtext on the social politics of power. A poet whose muse is Medusa. Tidal Fury is...
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ISBN13: 9781550719215
ISBN10: 1550719211
English
Tigers and the CEO describes the epic encounter between two characters representing, respectively, the realm of emotions and the logic of business. Through powerful language, the author portrays a series of instants in which the two worldviews -- the passionate and the passionless -- face one another. The result is...
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ISBN13: 9781550713022
ISBN10: 1550713027
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Drawn from the author's 60-year journey through the Middle East, Japan, and North America, this collection of poems offers a variety of engaging styles, ranging from sonnets to haiku to free-form experimentation, while considering the implications of technology, science, and nature in the context of the 21st century. Including previously...
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ISBN13: 9780919349131
ISBN10: 0919349137
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To Sleep, To Love brings together direct and contemplative poems which read like pages in a novel. Individually fashioned to the required precision, each poem projects its full brilliance, especially when placed in the context of the narration. Love can be venerated or cursed but it remains a singular force...
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ISBN13: 9781908998125
ISBN10: 1908998121
English
To The Boneyard is a first collection of poems where candour, humour and revelation meet in a hotel bar for cocktails. Here are encounters with the mythologies of love and loss, memories filtered through exile, a suite of epiphanies wrapped in brisk modernity.
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ISBN13: 9781550712315
ISBN10: 1550712314
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This unique collection of Canadian poetry demonstrates how poems can be complex yet communicate their essence simply and directly. This selection of spiritual, wittty, and subtly textured poems is both current and lively.
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ISBN13: 9781550713510
ISBN10: 1550713515
English, Italian
Alberto Nessi's … strength as a poet rests with his own distinctive and daring language -- a spirit level that enables him always to align himself with the subject of his verse. And, if his work is the product of a rational and realistic pessimism -- occasionally softened by irony,...
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ISBN13: 9781550718133
ISBN10: 1550718134
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Anticipation and awareness bud at the start of a new life and bloom with the wondrous changes that ensue. These lyrical narrative poems rejoice at the insights, emotions, and development of a newborn and her family over a brief period of years. Crafted with an artist's eye and poet's appreciation...
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ISBN13: 9781550712940
ISBN10: 1550712942
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Encompassing a range of emotions - tenderness, vengeance, desire, cruelty - this visionary poetry collection written in the first person traverses the phantom miracles and peers into the dark heart of the world.
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ISBN13: 9781550710038
ISBN10: 1550710036
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This collection of poetry represents ten years of collaborative work by two of Canada's leading feminist writers, Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland. Irresistible word play and erotic lyricism merge with cultural analysis here.
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ISBN13: 9781550713503
ISBN10: 1550713507
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Translated by award-winning author Antonio D'Alfonso, this collection presents four books by prolific Quebec writer Roger Des Roches. Considered by many scholars and critics to be one of the founders of modernity in Quebec, Des Roches' writings span more than four decades and have acted as a source of inspiration...
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ISBN13: 9781550718492
ISBN10: 1550718495
English
Under My Skin asks a lot of questions, questions that demand answers: Why are young black gay men invisible in Canada's queer and black communities? Do their lives really matter? How do young black men deal with the daily challenges of dealing with multiple oppressions in relation to our race...
Eyewear Publishing
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781908998101
ISBN10: 1908998105
English
“We fought America in ourselves,” Don Share writes, and Union suggests -- in exquisitely lyrical gestures -- the breadth and depth of our public and private, civil and uncivil wars. These quietly powerful poems range from the gritty intrigues of New York City to subsistence farms, where “the dogs are...
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ISBN13: 9781550717297
ISBN10: 1550717294
English
Mothers of the 1950s were wasp-waisted, dutiful, serene, and tied to the kitchen with apron strings. Or so we thought. This collection of searing and startling poetry and prose unties the stereotype and reveals women who were strong, wild, talented, wise, mad, creative, desperate, angry, courageous, bitter, tenacious, reckless and...
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ISBN13: 9781550710878
ISBN10: 1550710877
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In this text, the poet's discourse centres on "variations" of a few fundamental themes, among which predominates, from the very first poem, the theme of death. This poetry tends to resolve itself into an oscillatory movement of lights and shadows, a movement which on the one hand reflects the changeability...
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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: 9781550719635
ISBN10: 1550719637
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Verge begins with a small fox waiting at the river's edge, symbolizing a woman at a turning point in her life. The fox lopes through the poems, at first looking back on the “cold yesterday” of childhood, then travelling with the poet as she moves through various changes and losses...
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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: 9781550710793
ISBN10: 1550710796
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Rimanelli and Serrao meet for the first time in this collection of sonnets written under the aegis of the gaze, of certain thematic and stylistic preferences that include the use of dialect, a marked experimentalism, and a transgressivity that undermines the classical model of the sonnet.
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ISBN13: 9781771833318
ISBN10: 1771833319
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This compilation of selected poems from three of his books is an excellent introduction to Jean Royer the poet. Overwhelmed by the deaths of his mother and his partner, Micheline LaFrance, Royer captures in poetic verse an emotional and intellectual world rapidly fading away. Always present one reads a sense...
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ISBN13: 9780920717141
ISBN10: 0920717144
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Marco Fraticelli explores the cumulative aftermath of ended relationships. Like a child who can't help picking at a scab, the poet rummages through his photograph album trying to decide which of the pictures he should keep and which to bum. Either way, like a greedy thief, he takes with him...