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  • Bonememory

    by Anna Veprinska ...
    Series series Brave & Brilliant
    Memory is stored in the body. Memory sprouts in families and is transmitted from one generation to the next. Memory imprints at the level of bone. In Bonememory, Anna Veprinska bares down to the marrow.An expert lyric poet writing at the intersection of memory and pain, Veprinska fearlessly traces intergenerational histories of struggle and survival. This collection confronts the indelible marks ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis

    by Anna Veprinska ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines the representation of empathy in contemporary poetry after crisis, specifically poetry after the Holocaust, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and Hurricane Katrina. The text argues that, recognizing both the possibilities and dangers of empathy, the poems under consideration variously invite and refuse empathy, thus displaying what Anna Veprinska terms empathetic ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

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    A groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing and prophetic author of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood.When it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood’s Power Politics startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once ... Read more

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  • Dancing in Odessa

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    by Ilya Kaminsky ...
    Winner of the prestigious Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, selected by poet and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient Eleanor Wilner who says, "I'm so happy to have a manuscript that I believe in so powerfully, poetry with such a deep music. I love it." One might spend a lifetime reading books by emerging poets without finding the real thing, the writer who (to paraphrase Emily Dickinson) can take the top ... Read more

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  • Big Reader

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    by Susan Olding ...
    A book about memory, loss, and a love of books from one of Canada's finest essayistsEver since childhood, Susan Olding has been a big reader, never without a book on the go. Not surprising, then, that she turns to the library to read her own life. From the dissolution of her marriage to the forging of a tentative relationship with her new partner's daughter, from discovering Toronto as a young ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2024

    A Selection of the Shortlist

    Edited by Albert F. Moritz ...
    Series series The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
    The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry in English from the shortlist of the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize.Each year, the best books of poetry published in English are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001, this annual prize has tremendously spurred interest in and recognition of poetry, ... Read more

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  • Hybrida

    Poems

    by Tina Chang ...
    “One of the most important books of poetry to come along in years.” —Craig Morgan Teicher, NPRNamed a Best Book of 2019 by NPR and Publishers Weekly, Hybrida is a stirring and confident examination of mixed-race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens of motherhood. In an agile blend of zuihitsu, ghazal, mosaic poems, and lyric essays, Tina Chang “evokes the bottomless ... Read more

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  • Abandon Every Hope

    Essays for the Dead

    by Hayley Singer ...
    Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask: where does this horror begin and how can it end?“Experimental and jostling in its use of poetic, lyric, academic and reflective writing styles, this book grapples with the industrial meat complex.” -Stella Prize Judges commentsCan anyone smell the suffering ... Read more

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  • Failure

    Poems

    by Philip Schultz ...
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning poetry collection of "heartbreaking tenderness" (Gerald Stern).A driven immigrant father; an old poet; Isaac Babel in the author's dreams: Philip Schultz gives voice to failures in poems that are direct and wry. He evokes other lives, too—family, beaches, dogs, the pleasures of marriage, the terrors of 9/11, New York City in the 1970s ("when nobody got up before noon, wore ... Read more

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  • The School Among the Ruins

    Poems 2000-2004

    by Adrienne Rich ...
    "Trust Rich, a clarion poet of conscience, to get the fractured timbre of the times just right."--Booklist, starred reviewIn this new collection Adrienne Rich confronts dislocations and upheavals in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The title poem, in a young schoolteacher's voice, evokes the lessons that children ("Not of course here") learn amid violence and hatred, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

    A Selection of the Shortlist

    Edited by Adam Dickinson ...
    Series series The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
    The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist.Each year, the best books of poetry published in Canada and internationally in English are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s richest literary awards. Since 2001, this annual prize has spurred interest in and recognition of ... Read more

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  • If There is Something to Desire

    One Hundred Poems

    by Vera Pavlova ...
    Translated by Steven Seymour ...
    I broke your heart. / Now barefoot I tread / on shards.Such is the elegant simplicity—a whole poem in ten words, vibrating with image and emotion—of the best-selling Russian poet Vera Pavlova. The one hundred poems in this book, her first full-length volume in English, all have the same salty immediacy, as if spoken by a woman who feels that, as the title poem concludes, “If there was nothing to ... Read more

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