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Three Canadian soldiers awaiting deployment to Afghanistan beat a homeless man to death on the...
The incantation you find in this surprising collection is multifaceted and complex: the intimate personal,...
The Daring of Paradise reconfigures stories and images from both multiple religions and from fairy...
Broken hymns. Desperate prayers. Tales of first heroes. Stories of the street. The poems in...
Positions to Pray In is another in a series of Barry Dempster's well-crafted, intensely intelligent...
The persistence of misconceptions about Italian-Canadian food culture raises many questions for us. Are we...
This is a posthumous collection of poems. Though Axel Soestmeyer did not live to see the poems into print, this edition faithful to his intentions makes public the complex expression of an emotional thinker and intelligent lover. His mastery of vocabulary and the liberties he took with syntax and rhythm permit him to control a vital inspiration that could easily have slipped into vulgarity. Axel Soestmeyer assigns to the sexual and the spiritual similar roles, revealing not the facile moral solution of conformism but an understanding of the savage stuff which constitutes the human and his relationship to others and,...
