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“catherine chandler”

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  • Glad and Sorry Seasons

    by Catherine Chandler ...
    The second full-length collection from sonneteer and formalist poet Catherine Chandler, Glad and Sorry Seasons brings together new suites of poems-on grief, recovery, the deadly sins, and the virtues of faith, hope, and love-to meditate on those polarities of light and dark, joy and sorrow, that illuminate and cloud our lives by turn. With subjects ranging from Alzheimer’s to Edward Hopper’s ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Whispers in the Stack

    by Karin Kallmaker, Tracey Richardson, Kat Jackson, Laina Villeneuve, Catherine Maiorisi, Jessie Chandler, TJ O'Shea, Heather Rose Jones, Melissa Price, Micheala Lynn, Venetia Di Pierro, RJ Layer, Nance Newman, Nicole Gustafson ...
    From pragmatic librarians finding unexpected connections to visitors discovering more than just books, Whispers in the Stacks: An Anthology of Library Love Stories explores love in quiet corners and among towering bookshelves. Whether it’s the charm of a late-night study session turning into a subtle flirtation, or a librarian uncovering a spy lurking between the stacks, this anthology proves that ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD

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    Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Although most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her ... Read more

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  • Gabriel

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    by Edward Hirsch ...
    Longlisted for the 2014 National Book AwardNever has there been a book of poems quite like Gabriel, in which a short life, a bewildering death, and the unanswerable sorrow of a father come together in such a sustained elegy. This unabashed sequence speaks directly from Hirsch’s heart to our own, without sentimentality. From its opening lines—“The funeral director opened the coffin / And there he ... Read more

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  • Prelude to Bruise

    by Saeed Jones ...
    How do we reckon our past without being ravaged by it? How do we use people, and their bodies, to express ourselves? ... Read more

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  • My Shoes Are Killing Me

    by Robyn Sarah ...
    Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Award for PoetryWinner of the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for PoetryIn My Shoes are Killing Me, poet Robyn Sarah reflects on the passing of time, the fleetingness of dreams, and the bittersweet pleasure of thinking on the "hazardous . . . treasurehouse" that is the past. Natural, musical, meditative, warm, and unexpectedly funny, this is a restorative ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting

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    by Kevin Powers ...
    The award-winning author of The Yellow Birds returns with an extraordinary debut poetry collection.National Book Award finalist, Iraq war veteran, novelist and poet Kevin Powers creates a deeply affecting portrait of a life shaped by war. Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting captures the many moments that comprise a soldier's life: driving down the Texas highway; waiting for the unknown ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • MxT

    by Sina Queyras ...
    Winner of the 2014 A.M. Klein Prize for PoetryMxT, or ‘Memory x Time,’ is one of the formulas acclaimed poet Sina Queyras posits as a way to measure grief. These poems mourn the dead by turning memories over and over like an old coin, by invoking other poets, by appropriating the language of technology, of instruction, of diagram, of electrical engineering, and of elegy itself. Devastating, cheeky ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway

    by Alexandra Oliver ...
    A CANADIAN POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE NATIONAL POSTWINNER OF THE PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARDAlexandra Oliver has many arrows in her quiver-all of them sharpened to a fine point. This is an excellent and entertaining collection.”-TIMOTHY STEELEIn Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway, Alexandra Oliver zooms in on the inertias, anxieties, comedies, cruelties, and epiphanies of domestic life:They all ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Last Time I'll Write About You

    by Dawn Lanuza ...
    The Last Time I'll Write About You is popular Filipino YA and romance writer Dawn Lanuza's debut collection of poetry. Featuring beautiful, relatable poems about first love, this book is the perfect companion for anyone who has loved, lost, and emerged anew. ... Read more

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  • Here Come the Moonbathers

    by Patricia Young ...
    Here Come the Moonbathers, is more dark, difficult and tragic than Patricia Young’s earlier work. The poems in this collection have wild freedom, exploring the themes of love, longing and loss with grace, playfulness, and occasionally anger. There's a surreal edge to these poems, a personal, political and ecological vision, an incantatory vernacular and rhythm that makes these poems unforgettable. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A Thaw Foretold

    by Mike Barnes ...
    Written between one January and the next, A Thaw Foretold is a passionate exploration of themes that are as timeless and recurrent as the seasons. In language that is both precisely vivid and particular, embracing both colloquial directness and formal elegance, the poems confront the elementals of love and loss, mortality and remembrance. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD