Essential Poets Series

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Canadian and international voices in poetry.

Office Politics

This is no sociological treatise set to free verse. Nor is it a lighthearted comedy...

Formentera Followed by The Gardens of Suzhou

All eight of Schierbeek's books of prose-poetry from 1951 on, which he termed “compositional novels,”...

Reaching V

“Reaching V” occurs when geese find perfect formation -- riding on air, sharing leadership, and...

Canticles I: mmxvi

Book I of “The Canticles” puts into dialogue -- as dramatic monologues -- those who...

Borrowed Light

Weaving together complex layers of personal and political history, this collection of poems traces a...

Whirlwinds

This is Ken Norris' ninth book of poetry which takes as its epigraph a quote...

This selection is the first-time translation of Caccia's poetry which appeared in the original French-language Aknos, winner of the Governor General's Award of Canada in 1994.

Aknos and Other Poems

Fulvio Caccia, Daniel Sloate
1997

About Guernica

On Monday, April 26th, 1937, the bells of Santa Maria tolled, warning of the inhumane aerial raid that would reduce the Spanish city of Guernica into ruins. Men, women, children and animals were destroyed under the weight of the fiery nationalist bombs...

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