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...

Editeur : 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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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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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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Largely written before the current cultural visibility of trans lit, Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 is Salah’s prescient contribution to a canon of self-determined literature that explores transness. In this case, the author sidesteps the “I” in the text and instead draws on...

Editeur : Metonymy Press
Parution : 2017-06-30
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Space Between Her Lips presents the first selected works of one of Canada's most important poets of the last few decades. Margaret Christakos writes vibrant, exciting, and intellectually challenging poetry. She plays language games that bring a probing and disturbing...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2017-04-13
Collection : Laurier Poetry PDF, ePub

Nelson Ball has had a significant impact on contemporary Canadian poetry not only as a poet but as an editor, with his Weed/Flower Press in the 1960s and 70s. Certain Details provides a major overview of the breadth and many paths of Ball’s poetry over six decades. This...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2017-03-15
Collection : Laurier Poetry PDF, ePub

This collection brings together representative work from Sina Queyras’s poetic oeuvre. Queyras is at the forefront of contemporary discussions of genre, gender, and criticism of poetry. Her influential blog-turned-literary-magazine, Lemon Hound, published up-and-coming...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2016-03-31
Collection : Laurier Poetry PDF, ePub

Sonosyntactics introduces the reader to over forty-five years of Paul Dutton’s diverse and inventive poetry, ranging from lyrics, prose poems, and visual work to performance texts and scores. Perhaps best known for his acclaimed solo sound performances and his...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-11-07
Collection : Laurier Poetry ePub

Sideshow Concessions is the first book from queer performer and scholar Lucas Crawford. A collection populated by the circus-like bodies and experiences of a narrator navigating rural pasts and urban presents,Sideshow Concessions is the unofficial story of someone who...

Editeur : Invisible Publishing
Parution : 2015-10-01
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Increasingly known as the “poet’s poet,” Governor General’s Award–winner Phil Hall has long been a constructor of intricate sequences, collecting and arranging lines and phrases, artifacts, and small revelations. He writes on influences, literary and local; he writes of...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-07-23
Collection : Laurier Poetry ePub

A turbulent, celebratory flight from an accomplished witness and journeyman. Antony Di Nardo's third collection of poems occupies the air between Canada and Lebanon, viewer and painting, victim and triggerman, reader and page. Blending a bohemian ebullience with a...

Editeur : Brick Books
Parution : 2015-04-01
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Arcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky’s poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music comes). In the compositions in Chamber Music, the first anthology of Zwicky’s poems, one may perceive the attunement of her...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-01-13
Collection : Laurier Poetry ePub

This anthology brings together, for the first time, the complete published works of Jewish Canadian poet Miriam Waddington and features a rare selection of previously unpublished poems. Miriam Waddington's verse is deceptively accessible: it is personal but never...

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 2014-05-08
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This anthology brings together, for the first time, the complete published works of Jewish Canadian poet Miriam Waddington and features a rare selection of previously unpublished poems. Miriam Waddington's verse is deceptively accessible: it is personal but never...

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 2014-05-08
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Opening doors, dreaming awake, tracing networks of music and meaning, Marlatt’s poetry stands out as an essential engagement with what matters to anyone writing with a social-environmental conscience. Rivering includes poems inspired by the village of Steveston where,...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-04-23
Collection : Laurier Poetry ePub

Tom Wayman’s poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim. Wayman is one of Canada’s most prolific and public poets, and his writing since the 1960s has been by turns angry, engaged, hopeful, tender, and hilarious. His voice and persona are his alone but...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-03-24
Collection : Laurier Poetry ePub