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  • My First Suicide

    by Jerzy Pilch ...
    Translated by David Frick ...
    Ten connected stories about life in Poland that straddle the line between intimate revelation and drunken confession. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kith, Kin, and Neighbors

    Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno

    by David A. Frick ...
    In the mid-seventeenth century, Wilno (Vilnius), the second capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was home to Poles, Lithuanians, Germans, Ruthenians, Jews, and Tatars, who worshiped in Catholic, Uniate, Orthodox, Calvinist, and Lutheran churches, one synagogue, and one mosque. Visitors regularly commented on the relatively peaceful coexistence of this bewildering array of peoples, ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Dance of Death

    The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist

    by Steve Lowenthal ...
    John Fahey is to the solo acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric: the man whom all subsequent musicians had to listen to. Fahey made more than 40 albums between 1959 and his death in 2001, most of them featuring only his solo steel-string guitar. He fused elements of folk, blues, and experimental composition, taking familiar American sounds and recontextualizing them as something ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poet in the New World

    Poems, 1946–1953

    by Czeslaw Milosz ...
    Translated by Robert Hass & David Frick ...
    A new collection of work from Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz that includes previously untranslated poems written during his time in Washington, D.C., and his years in Europe before and after.One of the most revered poets of the twentieth century, Czesław Miłosz famously bore witness to violence in his native Poland in the aftermath of World War II. Miłosz lived in exile in Europe and the United ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Euphoric Recall

    A Half Century as a Music Fan, Producer, DJ, Record Executive, and Tastemaker

    by Peter Jesperson ...
    Record executive, producer, band manager, club DJ, booking advisor, record store manager—few people had as deep an impact on the Twin Cities alternative and indie rock scene as Peter Jesperson.A passionate music fan since his early childhood, Jesperson found his way into Minneapolis's burgeoning music world of the 1970s and followed a path that put him at the center of the scene as it grew and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Collected Poems

    1956–1998

    by Zbigniew Herbert ...
    "Herbert's work in twentieth-century letters . . . rivals that of W. H. Auden or Elizabeth Bishop in its originality, imaginative breadth and humane vigilance." — The Washington PostA New York Times Notable Book of the YearThis outstanding new translation brings a uniformity of voice to Zbigniew Herbert's entire poetic output, from his first book of poems, String of Light, in 1956, to his final ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    Translated by Michael Henry Heim ...
    Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal’s rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story of his life—or at least unburdens himself of a lifetime’s worth of stories. Thus we learn of amatory ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Collected Poems

    1950-2012

    by Adrienne Rich ...
    The collected works of Adrienne Rich, whose poetry is "distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity" (New York Times). A Finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation and one of our most important American poets. She brought discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse, ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • A Wild Peculiar Joy

    The Selected Poems

    by Irving Layton ...
    A Wild Peculiar Joy is Irving Layton’s poetic testament. Hailed as the great lyric poet, Irving Layton has come to be known as one of Canada’s most powerful, groundbreaking voices, an important and influential writer whose distinguished career spanned almost forty-five years. By turns passionate and grave, joyous and apocalyptic, his beautifully crafted poems are illuminated by a strong social and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • In Partial Disgrace

    by Charles Newman ...
    Series series American Literature
    The long-awaited final work and magnum opus of one of the United States’s greatest authors, critics, and tastemakers, In Partial Disgrace is a sprawling self-contained trilogy chronicling the troubled history of a small Central European nation bearing certain similarities to Hungary—and whose rise and fall might be said to parallel the strange contortions taken by Western political and literary ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert

    by Jaroslav Seifert, Ewald Osers, George Gibian ...
    This is the best translated and largest edition of poetry by the Czechs' only Nobel Prize–winning writer, Jaroslav Seifert (he won the prize in 1984 and died in 1986). The poetry is surprising in its simplicity, sensual, thoughtful, moving and comic in turns. Author Milan Kundera has called this collection “the tangible expression of the nation’s genius.” The Nobel Committee stated that Seifert's ... Read more

    $12.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

    A Novel

    by Olga Tokarczuk ...
    Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...
    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE**New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century"A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune"Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx**In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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