Essential Anthologies Series

Presenting prose and poetry from the best writers in Canada.

A Second Coming
Canadian Migration Fiction

Don Mulcahy, F.G. Paci, Caterina Edwards, Cyril Dabydeen

2016

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771831208

ISBN10: 1771831200

English

Migration stories are an essential component of Canada's historical/literary continuum; we need to know of such writings to rationalize about who Canadians really are, and where they are from. Aren't we all the children of migration? Where we came from, how we got here, who we were, and are, and...

Coming Here, Being Here
A Canadian Migration Anthology

Don Mulcahy, Antonio D'Alfonso, Michael Mirolla

2016

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771831178

ISBN10: 1771831170

English

This migration anthology is an entertaining miscellany of memoir, essays, newspaper reportage, and even a poem, highlighting the humour, as well as the ironies and agonies generated when humans seek a new homeland. The authors, and their stories, are as diverse as our Canadian population itself, and help to tell...

I Found It at the Movies
An Anthology of Film Poems

Ruth Roach Pierson

2014

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550718973

ISBN10: 1550718975

English

Although poetry is one of the oldest art forms and cinema one of the youngest, a symbiosis exists between the two -- an interchange of metaphor, rhythm, point-of-view. No surprise, then, that so many contemporary poets write about film and the magnitude of its effect on modern life. Featuring work...

Italian Canadians At Table
A Narrative Feast in Five Courses

Loretta Gatto-White, Delia De Santis

2013

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550716757

ISBN10: 1550716751

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...

Polish[ed]
Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction

Kasia Jaronczyk, Małgorzata Nowaczyk

2017

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771831444

ISBN10: 1771831448

English

Polish(ed): Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction is the only anthology of Polish-Canadian writing in Canada and includes many internationally acclaimed and award-winning Canadian writers. What is the literary and cultural benefit of a diaspora anthology? It presents work from a community, a family of writers. It represents a cultural contribution...

The Heart Is Improvisational
An Anthology in Poetic Form

Carol Lipszyc, Michael Carrino, Ellen S. Jaffe, M. Travis Lane

2017

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771831864

ISBN10: 1771831863

English

Poets attribute an array of roles and capacities to the involuntary muscle and catalyst of our storied lives. The heart becomes a repository of erotic and familial love and a sanctuary for memory. In this collection, poets explore the flux of the heart's responses and instigations: the heart's tender overtures,...

Untying The Apron
Daughters Remember Mothers of the 1950s

Lorri Neilsen Glenn

2013

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

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...

Writing Cultural Difference
Italian-Canadian Creative and Critical Works

Giulia De Gasperi, Maria Cristina Seccia, Licia Canton, Michael Mirolla

2015

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771830447

ISBN10: 1771830441

English

Writing Cultural Difference is a welcome addition to Canadian literary studies. The publication of this volume certainly dispels the belief that Italian-Canadian writing was a passing phenomenon three decades ago. The new generation of writers no longer focuses on immigration or speaks the dialect of their grandparents, but that heritage...

Writing Our Way Home

Licia Canton, Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni

2013

Guernica Editions

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550718027

ISBN10: 1550718029

English, Italian

Writing Our Way Home is an important contribution to literary studies. “Italian-Canadian writers are not just Canadian writers, but world writers,” states literary critic Elena Lamberti in the introduction to Writing Our Way Home. “They write from Canada with an original point of view on multiple (hybrid) identities and have...

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