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  • Veer

    by Cole Swensen ...
    Series series Jean Valentine Series
    In Veer**, award-winning poet Cole Swensen examines the everyday world through a lens that shifts perception, offering surprising, sometimes zany perspectives on things we often take for granted. These poems challenge the presumption that “nature” is an “other,” suggesting instead that we all—animal, plant, mineral—are seamlessly fused in the joint project of living.**A few years ago, Swensen ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art in Time

    by Cole Swensen ...
    Historically, much landscape art has reinforced binaries such as inside/outside, subject/object, and culture/nature, thus reducing a complex network to an ornament that reinforces a sense of human power over nature, imposes specific cultural values, and/or claims or exercises control. And yet there are also artists who have developed alternatives to conventional depictions of the world around them ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Goest

    by Cole Swensen ...
    Treating subjects from landscape to sculpture to a 19th century technical encyclopedia, the poet is fascinated with light, glass, mirrors, flame, ice, mercury—things transparent, evanescent, impossible to grasp. Likewise Swensen’s lyrics, which, with elliptical phrasing and play between visual and aural, change the act of seeing—and reading—offering glimpses of the spirit (or ghost) that enters a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Noise That Stays Noise

    Essays

    by Cole Swensen ...
    Series series Poets On Poetry
    Praise for Cole Swensen:"One of the most assured voices in contemporary poetry."---Library Journal"Engaging and delightful."---Publishers WeeklyA volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.Ezra Pound famously said that ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Fictions of Art History

    by Paul Barolsky, Professor Thomas Crow, Gloria Kury, Ralph Lieberman, Maria H. Loh, Alexander Nemerov, Joanna Scott, Cole Swensen, Marianna Torgovnick, Caroline Vout, Marina Warner ...
    Fictions of Art History, the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians’ viewing practices and modes of writing. How, the contributors ask, are we to unravel the supposed facts of history from the fictions constructed ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Physis

    by Nicolas Pesquès, Cole Swensen ...
    Series series Free Verse Editions
    For over twenty-five years, NICOLAS PESQUÈS has been writing an homage to Juliau, the mountain he sees out his window. In PHYSIS, the fifth book of the series, he weaves philosophical reflection in and out of an encounter with the body of the mountain, the body of language, and the human body that bridges the two. Employing an exquisitely spare, precise phrasing, PHYSIS underscores the distance on ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Now, Now, Louison

    Translated by Cole Swensen ...
    by Jean Frémon ...
    Financial Times Book of the YearThe extraordinary artist, the spider woman, the intellectual, the rebel, the sly enchantress, and the “good girl” sing together in this exuberant, lithe text beautifully translated by Cole Swensen.This brilliant portrait of the renowned artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) shows a woman who was devoted to her art and whose life was also that of her century. The art ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • In the Beginning

    Illustrated Stories from the Old Testament

    by Frederic Boyer ...
    Translated by Cole Swensen ...
    From Genesis to the Book of Daniel, this ebook recounts 35 stories from the Old Testament in a modern and inviting way, combining spirited illustrations with spare, eloquent prose. Acclaimed illustrator Serge Bloch expertly captures the many scenes in these beloved tales, conveying extraordinary breadth of emotion and action in his seemingly simple drawings. Biblical expert Frédéric Boyer and poet ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Thought That Nature

    by Trey Moody ...
    Series series Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
    Thought That Nature identifies and captures moments when the border between personal consciousness and the otherness of the physical become porous. Ironically, it also allows Moody to measure the distance between consciousness and direct experience, even as he casts this gap in memorable speech. This debut collection offers the reader sensual delight and intellectual pursuit-a rare and bracing ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Overyellow, an Installation

    by Nicholas Pesquès ...
    Translated by Cole Swensen ...
    Series series Free Verse Editions
    This is a book about a color—the vivid, explosive yellow of the English broom that blooms outrageously, uproariously, all over the mountain that dominates the view from Nicolas Pesquès' window. In this loping long poem, Pesquès views this color as installation art—as if the word YELLOW were written in enormous letters covering the hillside. It's an installation that brings issues of language to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Michelle Schaub ...
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    This collection of poems takes young readers to a day at an urban farmers’ market. Who to see, what to eat, and how produce is grown—it’s all so exciting, fresh, and delicious. Readers are invited to peruse the stands and inspect vendors’ wares with poems like “Farmer Greg’s Free-Range Eggs,” “Summer Checklist,” and “Necessary Mess.”Bright and vibrant, this is the perfect guide for little ones to ... Read more

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