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First Poets
Siamese twins, circus performers, burn victims, and scientists all clash in this vibrant and vivid...
This collection of poems is filled with psychics, surfers, femmes fatales, and the love-stricken. Whether...
In Footsteps on the Ceiling, Baila Ellenbogen explores the overlapping planes of existence her experience...
Broken hymns. Desperate prayers. Tales of first heroes. Stories of the street. The poems in Navy Blue walk the middle ground between sorrow and salvation, tackling themes of devotion, regret, innocence lost and mortality through an array of dark landscapes and narratives of the dispossessed. Written in sharp and urgent language with undercurrents of raw emotion, this book marks the arrival of a brave and original new voice in Canadian poetry.
"If death finds me first /
Look under the back porch /
On the side near the tool shed /
That's where I hid my secrets"
