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The poetic edda
A lively contemporary translation of these action-packed medieval Icelandic poems.
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What stirs
Where does the fragile, robust self reside when 'personal' voice is sent out online into an ironic masquerade ball of alias identity and wanton proxy? What stirs us? Can there be anything authentic about feeling anything anymore? In What Stirs, Margaret Christakos looks at our primal appetite fo...
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With wax
Quill pen, linotype, computer: does how you write affect what you write? In with wax, derek beaulieu spurns the sentence and woos the phrase, the image and the language of printing, weaving fragments together to address the question of how publishing and printing affect writing. The result is a ...
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3 summers
A grappling with time, form, and embodiment.
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Things a bright boy can do
In Michael Chang's latest, all the world's a vaudeville stage, and this poet is its jester with a knife.Like an elongated diss track, Chang's poems go from flirty to righteous, wrathful to lackadaisical, all in the span of one page. The titans of pop culture and poetry wrestle at Chang’...
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The work of days
With the prisms of varied vocabularies refracting detail and language, Sarah Lang illuminates the intricacies of communication, of the moments and gaps between action and reaction, and, as she does, announces herself as a commanding and rhythmically captivating new poetic presence. The first sec...
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Eunoia
Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (2002) Stunning and masterful in its execution, Eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram. The word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Directly i...
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Crystallography
Published in 1994, Crystallography was a gem of a book, an instant hit that was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. It has been unavailable for an ice age, and Coach House Books is proud to bring it back. 'Crystallography' means the study of crystals, but also, taken literally, 'lucid writin...
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Janey's arcadia
An unflinchingly subversive, aversive, conversive poetic look at the underbelly of Canadian settler-colonial experience.
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Whelmed
Whelmed delights in shaping new sentences and paragraphs that welcome neologisms into their lexicon.
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Throaty wipes
With its words planted firmly in cheek, Throaty Wipes does surprising things — like write a poem on a calculator!
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Some lines of poetry
CBC BOOKS "CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2024"For bpNichol’s 80th birthday, a selection of 80 pieces from his 1980s notebooks, an astounding trove of never-before-seen work. One of Canada’s most beloved poets, bpNichol (1944–1988), left a huge legacy of poetry, prose, scripts, ...
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Dyslexicon
A double-lunged bong hit of mid-Eighties post-punk college rock, Gertrude Stein, art films, and the comedic legacy of Laurel and Hardy (including such great standup teams as HD and Ezra Pound, Jesus and Judas, and Steve McCaffery and bpNichol). Jeff Derksen says: 'If reading is sixty-nining, then...
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Buddyland
The original Vancouver Subhumans meet Wyndham Lewis in a back alley, beat the hell out of him, take all of his money, use it to buy drugs and booze, then sit down in a seedy Gastown bar and begin to write poetry based on the contents of Lewis's briefcase. The results might be something like Buddy...
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The lillian lectures
Hide under your bed! Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret meets South Park in The Lillian Lectures, a collection of short poems and cheerfully nasty illustrations that will turn your universe on its head. Remember how strange you thought sex and God were when you were little? Six-year-old Melan...
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Sitcom
Implicating extremes from Coriolanus to Karen Carpenter, David McGimpsey’s Sitcom is both serious poetry and a work of comedy. Where Timon of Athens meets Shania Twain, that's where you'll find Sitcom. Mischievous, generous and side-splittingly funny, this collection of wry soliloquies and sonne...
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Touch to affliction
Touch to Affliction is a text of ruins: ruins of genre, of language, of the city, of the body, of the barbarism of the twentieth century. At once lament, accusation and elegy, this work articulates the crumbling of buildings, the evisceration of language, the inhumanity that arises from patrie. ...
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Unsun
Poetry that aspires ‘to conjugate in a future imperfect,’ but a future nonetheless.
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A painted elephant
A Painted Elephant tells a tale of love unrequited, of course, like all the best stories. Our Juliet? A lonely Indian elephant, newly arrived at the Calgary Zoo from Holland, with a penchant for moonlight escapes. Her Romeo? The wooden Maytag Man statue on Calgary's 9th Street, with his sad ey...
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Mycological studies
Jay Millar's second collection of poems looks at the world of mushrooms through a kaleidoscope ofperspectives and styles, ranging from innovative and constraint-based writing to visual and concrete poetry. This book makes a unique contribution to the poetry of science and nature; if mushrooms ha...
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Crabwise to the hounds
With cameos by jackalopes, Glenn Gould, homemade spaceships, and Carl Linnaeus, these poems are remarkable for their technical agility and their restless inventiveness. There’s an elegance here that matches Dodds’ impulse to challenge the reader with fresh metaphor and astonishing phrasing; the f...
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Hypotheticals
Poetry and science: twin arts separated at birth? Leigh Kotsilidis's debut puts the scientific method's feet to the fire.
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Neighbour procedure
A virtuoso polyvocal correspondence with the daily news, ancient scripture and contemporary theory.
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Sooner
Eschewing prevailing poetic fashion, Sooner reimagines poetry as a kind of cubist fascination, at times even a fascination with fascination itself. In Sooner, Christakos’s most tender, lucent book to date, we find the delusory spiral reasoning of artistic schools; the fluid politic of desire, ge...
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Metropolis16-29
Robert Fitterman's poetry, like the man himself, is urban, sophisticated and eclectic. This second volume of poems from Fitterman's award-winning Metropolis project ranges far and wide over the cultural geography, from Milton to Black Mountain to conceptual art to Objectivism to the Steve Miller...
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Cutting room
Poems about the anxiety of the present the dread that comes with being human at his particular moment.
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I confess
How is a lyric poem like a polygraph machine? A personal, poetic examination of the technology of truth-telling.Eric Schmaltz’s I Confess delves into the complexities of truth-telling in poetry, and the history of technologies designed to produce truth from willing and unwilling subjects, conside...
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The laundromat essay
'I know the owner of the laundromat,' reflects the narrator of this extended poem, 'but can’t remember his name (which could be for many reasons).' The poem is then swept up in narrative tangents and detours as the narrator, also nameless, tries to navigate the consequential absurdities of livin...
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Blert
The bright, taut, explosive poems in Jordan Scott’s Blert represent a spelunk into the mouth of the stutterer. Through the unique symptoms of the stutter (Scott, like fifty million others, has always stuttered), language becomes a rolling gait of words hidden within words, leading to different r...
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The world is a heartbreaker
The World Is a Heartbreaker inaugurates a new subgenre: imposter poetry. This collection is a set of 1600 pseudohaikus, bite-sized chunks of poetic goodness shotgunned at the distracted masses. What’s a pseudohaiku? It’s the poetry of pure indulgence, a three-liner without the constraint, the pr...
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A book of variations
a book of variations returns to print three seminal texts by one of the twentieth century's most inventive poets.
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Notebook of roses and civilization
The heat of summer on an earlobe, a parking meter, the shadow of crabs and pigeons under a cherry tree, an olive, a shoulder blade in the poems of Nicole Brossard these concrete, quotidian things move languorously through the senses to find a place beyond language. Taken together, they create ...
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Boat
LONGLISTED FOR THE PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARDFrom the author of The Baudelaire Fractal, a poetry classic, with new work In 2004, boldly original poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook, Rousseau’s Boat, poems culled from years of notebooks that are, nevertheless, by no means autobiographi...
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Needs improvement
The irreverent poetry of report cards, lesson plans, city mottos, invigilation guides, and, of course, Michel Foucault
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Outside the hat
In Outside the Hat lies a landscape of CanaDada and SurRielism, populated by dancing medieval woodcuts, Franglais-speaking dogs, sadistic provincial politicians and melodious bison. Including work culled from a plethora of micro-press chapbooks such as Mike Harris Made Me Eat My Dog, The Irridesc...
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Articles of faith
A beautiful conjunction of the late Douglas Clark's minimalist poetry and photography, this book transforms the mundane detritus of our collective past into a series of contemporary illuminations. Articles of Faith are found, given, fought for, hoarded and cherished ... They are the marks we leav...
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Unrehearsed beauty
The Artist Formerly Known As Death Waits christens his new public persona with the release of 'a series of theatrical proposals to be repeated, discarded, performed simultaneously and/or recombined in any and all possible combinations all vaguely relating to the topic of the author's moral ambi...
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Nerve squall
Nerve Squall is a field guide like no other, a surreal handbook to a landscape at the crossroads of meteorology and neurology, where the electrical storms without and the electrical impulses within converge. Legris’s fascination with weather, ghosts and brain disorders is the starting point for ...
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The inquisition yours
In tongues alternately vulnerable, defiant, resigned, and hopeful, The Inquisition Yours speaks to the atrocities of our time.
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Feel happier in nine seconds
Tackling the troubles and hopes of our times, Besner’s verse is a sparkler lit from a bonfire of logic textbooks.
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Seven pages missing volume 2
In two massive volumes, Steve McCaffery, Canada's most challenging, experimental and innovative poet/critic amasses the best of his previously published and ungathered work. From the early concrete and visual poems of Broken Mandala and Transitions to the Beast to the Ludwig Wittgenstein-inspire...
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Matinee light
Hartog's first collection of poetry is a marvellous, luminous book from a writer with a sure wit, an abundance of feeling and a profound sense of the absurdity and rightness of life. Winner of the 1983 Pat Lowther Award.
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School
The surreal meets the political in Currin's new collection, global in scope and intimate in purpose.
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Divide and rule
Acclaimed poet explores the West's violent collision with the Arab world.
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Martyrology books 1 & 2
'All of Nichol's work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey through different ways of being. Language i...
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Raising eyebrows
The surrealist antics of Gary Barwin will run the predictability of your universe through a particle accelerator. Watch as your right eyebrow turns into you as a child. Watch Jeff connect the mower to the Internet to cut other people's lawns. Hear the sploosh as Barwin drops some extra syllables...
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Night became years
Poems about alchemy, love, Protestant witch judges, Indigenous identity, the cultural abutments of the inner city, football taunts, border ballads, and halfbreed wailing.
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New theatre
A poetic debut that ventures into historical and imagined space both, with musings on Lenin, power and identity.
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The brave never write poetry
These confrontational poems about sex and boredom, drugs and suicide, document Jones' depressive, alcoholic years as an enfant terrible.
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Busted
Busted is a book about governance, and a catalogue of possible relations. It explores a litany of genres concerned with allegiance and refusal, and inhabits the array of ways we do or don't jive with self, group and governing relations. It is a polemic, it is a collage that interrogates how langu...
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Magyarázni
Poems that traverse the boundaries between personal experience, familial bonds, and shared cultural identity.
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Words of wisdom from a man claiming to be fred rogers
Words of Wisdom from a Man Claiming to be Fred Rogers is a box of 29 blurry polaroids. Muted, dark, indeterminate they convey a sense of loss, uncertainty, ambivalence, which is heightened by the random fragments of text typed on the back. Written in response to two deaths in Wincenty's familiy...
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Multitudes
Poems chronicling the contemporary self's fluctuating desire between near-obliterating connectedness and panoptical self-surveillance in the social media age.
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American standard/canada dry
With Canada / US relations in the proverbial toilet (American Standard, of course), Stephen Cain’s third book blenderizes pop’ culture, politics and poetry to befuddle the border. From the Howl-like opening rant about the militarism of the US to the satirical History of Canada,’ this collectio...
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Tulpa
Louise Bak's second book, Tulpa (in Buddhist mysticism, a magical entity created by intensely concentrated thought), continues her challenging exploration of a broad range of themes and uses of the global lexicon. Combining a visual artist's flair for colour with a performance artist's transgress...
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Night & ox
A poem timed to our internal clocks, a poem in perpetual remove, in preposterous love.
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Ardour
Language is ardently alive in this new translation of poems by Nicole Brossard.
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My ariel
A poem-by-poem revisioning and engagement with Sylvia Plath’s Ariel and the towering mythology surrounding it.
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Martyrology book 5
'All of Nichol's work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey through different ways of being. Language i...
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Common place
What grows, survives, and thrives in urban landscapes and bodies challenged by systems of capital and power?
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Vulgar mechanics
Grappling with queerness and trauma from Alberta to Brooklyn, powering through body, sex, and gender to hit free open roads
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Down
How can we carve private spaces from discarded publics?
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The refrigerator memory
The Refrigerator Memory is an exuberant, strangely funny celebration of sadness. With fable-like miniature stories and short lyric poems, Shannon Bramer creates a world littered with stolen pears and prosthetic arms and inhabited by Kindness scientists and hot-air-balloon operators. The poems in...
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Expressway
Echoing the pastoral and elegiac modes of the Romantic poets, Queyras's collection explores the infrastructures and means of modern mobility.
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Mission creep
A book of revelations, devolutions, and devotions that crafts narrative from noise and composes music from metadata.
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Joy is so exhausting
Holbrook’s second collection is a comic fusion of the experimental and the experiential, the procedural and the lyric.
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The inkblot record
Dan Farrell's second volume of poetry is an examination of a discourse that everyone knows about but few people have examined in detail: the response of people to Rorschach inkblot patterns. By turns profound and hilarious, this book is an insightful statement about the relentless drive to make ...
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A house of white rooms
The first collection from a new voice in Toronto poetry. 'To read Helen Tsiriotakis is to know the scalding appetites of morning without recourse to shade ... Dear reader, take the exquisite risk.' Robert Kroetsch.
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Match
Match’s touching, whip-smart poems chart the limits of the mind/body relationship in decidedly virtual times.
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The tracks of my name
The Tracks of My Name sees Grace Nichols embarking on a journey across the English countryside to the small town of Olney in Buckinghamshire, where the one-time English slave-trader (later abolitionist) John Newton lived. It was here that Newton wrote his famous hymn, Amazing Grace. which inspire...
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Sensory deprivation
At long last, this double-barrelled collection of visual poetry, sensory deprivation and dream poetics, by damian lopes is now in print. Considered visual essays by the author, sensory deprivation explores the visual noise and overload of contemporary culture, while dream poetics offers an argume...
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Powers of congress
Reprint of an important collection that continues to exert a wide influence on contemporary poetics.
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On malice
On Malice is watching younew poems about and by surveillance, from Griffin-winning Ken Babstock.
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Said like reeds or things
Warning: this book may encourage a series of ungrammatical thoughts! Welcome to the poetic landscape of Mark Truscott, where less is more than you bargained for. Said Like Reeds or Things is a book of micropoetic and linguistic koans. With a quirky, off-centre sense of humour, these poems uncove...
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Disturbances of progress
If the expression 'Two steps forward, one step back' describes the conventional attitude toward hesitation and uncertainty, Disturbances of Progress takes those steps and turns them into a dance. In an intimate and intensely personal manner, Lise Downe's third major collection of poetry document...
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The lord and the general din of the world
Selected by Philip Levine as the winner of the 1995 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.
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Moby jane
Why, it's a whale of a book! Here comes Moby Jane - again! Originally published in 1987 and long out of print, Moby Jane contains ten years' worth of Gilbert, poem by poem, that literally spill out over its edges - the book begins on the front cover and ends on the back! Eli Mandel calls Gilbert ...
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Polaroids
Although firmly rooted in the real, Lillian Necakov's evocations of 'movie magic' prove irresistible in these forty poems and five collages. Ranging across dozens of films from Wim Wender's Wings of Desire and Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law to Hitchcock's Rope and Hawks's To Have and Have Not - L...
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A commonplace book
Maitreyabandhu’s Commonplace Book, his first book-length poem, follows a year from the death of his Buddhist teacher while he navigates his own spiritual life and smarts at lost love. In a commonplace book, you’d write a recipe, copy a proverb, jot down housekeeping advice, making a precious obje...
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Human resources
Write for buyers. Write for bosses. Think hyper. Think branding. Tell your visitor where to go. Poetry and plain language’ collide in the writing machine that is Human Resources. Here at the intersection of creation and repackaging, we experience the visceral and psychic cost of selling things ...
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Uncomfortable minds
“Uncomfortable minds” is Larry’s Sorkin’s riff on poet e.e. cummings ‘ words, “Cambridge ladies who...are unbeautiful and have comfortable mind” which refer to the conceit that uncomfortable minds are universal to all human beings. Larry Sorkin’s collection of poems—sometimes joyful, sometimes el...
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Coracle
Jane Clarke’s Coracle explores what it means to care for each other and the natural world in the midst of social and environmental jeopardy. With a timeless lyricism her poems attend to lives, language and landscape, her finely observed, distilled and intimate poems reflect on our kinship with al...
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World's tallest disaster
Winner of the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in poetry, judged by Robert Pinsky.
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The xenotext: book 2
The first work of ‘living poetry’ in the world, by the author of the bestselling book Eunoia.Christian Bök in Book 1 of The Xenotext outlined his plan to encode a poem into the genome of a deathless bacterium, thereby writing a text durable enough to outlive any apocalypse, surviving until the de...
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Belling the leopard
Joint winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize In her wide-ranging debut collection, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley asks what remains after once-familiar places and people have gone. The poems criss-cross the Atlantic, beginning in the 1850s. The voices of Caribbean returnees to the west African coast ...
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Midday at the super-kamiokande
Midday at the Super-Kamiokande is part existentialist cry, part close encounters of the other kind. Think Kierkegaard in a spacesuit, Kubrik in a Left Bank café.
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Indexical elegies
Jon Paul Fiorentino’s new collection is a whip-smart poetic investigation of anxiety in all its many manifestations.
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The ubiquitous big
You've heard of The Big Sleep, right? Well, it's sixty years later and time for The Ubiquitous Big. This book, the second from Calgary poet Ian Samuels, explores the language of certain influential aspects of early to mid-twentieth-century popular culture. Yes, folks, you get Arcana, based on the...
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Troubled
Everyone falls in love with their therapist at least a little. But what happens when the therapist not only loves you back but also acts upon it? Troubled is the poetic account of the true story of a patient/psychiatrist relationship gone horribly wrong. With his signature mix of scathing self-a...
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Unsleeping
Michael Burkard's eighth and most experimental book of poetry.
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Whitman
Offers insight into Whitman’s quest for self-discovery, which involved an ongoing mystical experience of the world.
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Twice removed
A brilliant new collection by the winner of the James Laughlin Award.
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Haiku—the sacred art
Takes the mystery and intimidation out of beginning to write haiku as a spiritual practice. Provides helpful hints and step-by-step exercises to broaden and deepen both your haiku artistry and your appreciation of haiku as part of your spiritual life.
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Hello serotonin
Contemporary Canadian poetry got you down? Well, we'd like to prescribe a little Hello Serotonin, the latest in mood-enhancing poetry anti-depressants. This new book of poems from Jon Paul Fiorentino operates within the constraints of what he terms 'synaptic syntax' - poetry that performs the ve...
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Probably inevitable
"Matthew Tierney writes poems like a mad boy scientist." Eye Weekly
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Otherwise poems
The collected English-language poems of Oscar Mandel, the acclaimed Belgian-born poet, playwright, fabulist, and author.
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Hafiz
This unique collection offers insight into the spiritual philosophy and carefree mysticism of the greatest Persian poet. His probing and joyful verse speaks to people from all backgrounds who long for divine love and harmony with all living things.
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I am not a juvenile delinquent
The #metoo movement, particularly the horrific Larry Nasser abuse, shows with frightening clarity the vulnerability of young women to male predators; all the Touchtone girls I encountered suffered similar or worse fates. The book is a pilgrimage, a quest story, divided into five sectio...
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Praeder's letters
A daring literary experiment, and an engrossing read from Kentucky's Poet Laureate.
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The gatehouse heaven
Selected by Charles Wright as the 1997 Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.
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