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In If This Were Death, Paul Chanel Malenfant mourns the loss of a beloved woman...
The writings of Denise Desautels have circulated in Quebec and Europe for some thirty years....
The poems in Christl Verduyn's first collection reveal telling moments in lives that move between...
Weaving together complex layers of personal and political history, this collection of poems traces a...
Death and its many mysteries are explored in these autobiographical poems about the passing of...
Like consists of fifty poems every one of which uses the word “like.” Like is about people and things Layton likes -- or, sometimes, dislikes. In these poems, Layton expresses a gamut of emotions, from the fear of death to the peaceful contentment of watching two nesting Canadian geese. However, “like” is more than an emotionally charged verb. It is also the basis of simile. It is by likening one thing to another that Layton finds meaning in ordinary things. Since all things are alike in some way, Like is a book of poetry about the underlying unity of all creation.
"I like like because it links /
The most unlikely things /
I like mice, for instance /
Because they are like /
Tiny elephants /
And I like elephants /
Because their ears /
Are like butterfly wings /
Opening and closing like /
The eyelids of my first girlfriend"
