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Odysseus has been away from Ithaca, the Greek city-state under his rule, for ten years while fighting in the Trojan War. After the fall of Troy,Odysseus begins the long journey home to his wife and son; however, his journey is plagued by misfortune as the gods feud over...
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Big Cheese Books
Parution :
2017-11-01
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A meditative and piercing collection that explores traumas
both ordinary and out of the ordinary.
Museum of Kindness, Montreal poet Susan Elmslie’s searching second collection of poetry, is a book that bravely examines “genres” familiar and hard to fathom: the school...
Editeur :
Brick Books
Parution :
2017-11-01
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This book contains the complete Edgar Allan Poe’s tales and poems —over 135 works— in the chronological order of their original publication.
Some of the most notable are:
Tales:
• "The Fall of the House of Usher"
• "The Masque of the Red Death"
• "The Pit and the...
Editeur :
Big Cheese Books
Parution :
2017-10-26
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This volume collects the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe.
THE TALES
Metzengerstein, The Duc de L’Omelette, A Tale of Jerusalem, Loss of Breath, Bon-Bon, Ms. Found in a Bottle, The Assignation, Berenice, Morella, Lionizing, The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans...
Editeur :
Big Cheese Books
Parution :
2017-10-26
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Pulling from raw themes of grief and death, regret and discomfort, sadness and failure, Worth wears these poems down to their bones. Straddling dreamy, ethereal images and brutal honesty, The Truth is Told Better This Way unravels its secrets one line at a time. The...
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BookThug
Parution :
2017-10-16
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Written from a female and Indigenous perspective, the poems in Indianland incorporate Anishinaabemowin throughout. Lesley Belleau explores rich themes of sexuality, birth, memory, and longing, as well as touchstone issues in Indigenous politics including Elijah Harper,...
Editeur :
Arbeiter Ring Publishing
Parution :
2017-10-15
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With an Introduction by World Chess Champion Jennifer ShahadeIn 1968, avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp and composer John Cage exhibited Reunion, a chess performance that took place in Toronto. Whenever Duchamp or Cage moved a piece, it generated a musical note until...
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BookThug
Parution :
2017-10-05
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“All the world is a narrow bridge,” states Rabbi Nachman of Bresnov. “The important thing is not to be afraid at all.” These poems, Barbara Pelman’s third collection, explore bridges both real and metaphoric: the bridge connecting Denmark to Sweden where her family...
Editeur :
Ronsdale Press
Parution :
2017-09-30
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kith [noun] one's friends, acquaintances, neighbours, or relations.In Kith, award-winning writer Divya Victor engages Indian-American diasporic culture in the twentieth century, via an autobiographical account that explores what 'kith' might mean outside of the national...
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BookThug
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2017-09-27
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Stately and majestic, yet scuffed with wear and disillusion, the poems of Smaller Hours mount the sky like columns and fora of some archaic ruin. Through these ancient halls, Kevin Shaw tracks Eros, clearing away the rubble and polishing the marble, along the way...
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icehouse poetry
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2017-09-26
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Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) once wrote of a desire to leave behind "one poem, one story / that will tell what it was like / to be alive." In an abundance of memorable poems, he fulfilled this desire with candour and subtlety, emotion, and humour, sympathy and...
Editeur :
icehouse poetry
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2017-09-26
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Much of the language that makes up Better Nature—the first poetry collection by writer and academic Fenn Stewart—is drawn from a diary that Walt Whitman wrote while travelling through Canada at the end of the nineteenth century.But rather than waxing poetic...
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BookThug
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2017-09-18
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This collection “spattered diversely by the trades that we live by” as Pablo Neruda puts it, reflects the variety of influences that have shaped the poet’s craft. Kalamkari (from the Persian for “pen craft”) refers to the hand-painted and block-printed textiles of South...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2017-09-15
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Journeywoman is the story in poems of the explicitly female journey made by women through girlhood, motherhood and beyond. The play on the word journeyman is intentional with the notion of completing an apprenticeship and seeking mastery of the trade implicit. The...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2017-09-15
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The Size of a Bird is an invocation of desire in times of violence and trauma. Refusing to shy away from difficult topics the poet tackles addiction, abuse, suicide, and sexual violence while infusing each word with a relentless drive for life. Seeking pleasure, these...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2017-09-15
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Into the Open: Poems New and Selected is both a compendium and compression of the best and most representative of Susan McCaslin’s poetry over nearly five decades. In addition, it showcases new work. The explorations ofInto the Open begin with McCaslin’s intense early...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2017-09-15
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Precious Energy, the fourth collection of poetry from Hamilton-born poet and playwright Shannon Bramer, is a uniquely playful collection of vibrantly sad, peculiar, and often funny poems about domestic life, motherhood, and the baffled child that remains within us all...
Editeur :
BookThug
Parution :
2017-09-07
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Precious Energy, the fourth collection of poetry from Hamilton-born poet and playwright Shannon Bramer, is a uniquely playful collection of vibrantly sad, peculiar, and often funny poems about domestic life, motherhood, and the baffled child that remains within us all...
Editeur :
BookThug
Parution :
2017-09-07
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A pitch-perfect debut
and a call to act in the service of Earth through radiant attention.
Humankind, at present, has breached floodgates that have only been breached before in ancient stories of angry gods, or so far back on geologic and biological timelines as to...
Editeur :
Brick Books
Parution :
2017-09-01
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A long poem memorializing the art and lives of sculptors
Frances Loring and Florence Wyle.
Arleen Paré, in her first book-length poem after her Governor General Literary Award–winning Lake of Two Mountains, turns her cool, benevolent eye to the shared lives of...
Editeur :
Brick Books
Parution :
2017-09-01
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