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“magdalena ball”

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  • Bobish

    by Magdalena Ball ...
    Though she was only fourteen years old, like many other Jews in Eastern Europe's Pale of Settlement in 1907, Rebecca Lieberman gathered her few belongings and left for the United States. What follows is a unique and poetic story of history, war, mysticism, music, abuse, survival and transcendence against the backdrop of New York City in the '20s, '30s and '40s. ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Unmaking Atoms

    by Magdalena Ball ...
    ‘Compassionate, poignant, otherworldly and profound: this thought-provoking, sometimes raw, collection is accessible contemporary poetry at its zenith of achievement.’ – Mark Logie, author of the poetry collection On the Road to Infinity and the young adult thriller Deadfall‘Magdalena Ball has assembled a delicate memento mori of our many subtle frames of reference. Her imagery is beautifully ... Read more

    $7.89 CAD

  • The Density of Compact Bone

    by Magdalena Ball ...
    'In The Density of Compact Bone, Magdalena Ball stuns with her elegantly constructed paean to earth, sky, water and her requiem to loss, both ecological and personal. Luxuriating in finely crafted imagery of plant and bird life and intimate personal portraiture, this poetry collection teems with meticulously sculpted syntax, skilfully assured language choices and masterfully wry, wistful, wishful ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • The Art of Touch

    A Collection of Prose and Poetry from the Pandemic and Beyond

    by Faye Rapoport DesPres, Magdalena Ball, Bonnie Boucher, Anne Casey, Joy Castro, Quintin Collins, Paula Coomer, Laura Crucianelli, María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado0, Linda DeFruscio-Robinson1, Erika Dreifus2, Raphael Frumkin3, Nicole Hardy4, Will Jennings5, Meg Kearney6, Becky Kennedy7, Sarah Kotchian8, Rocco Lo Bosco9, Sarah McElwain0, Damian McNicholl1, Lynda Miller2, Lynn C. Miller3, Sarah Moon4, Kate Niles5, Anne-Marie Oomen6, Alicia Ostriker7, Christine Page8, Judith Simon Prager9, Robert Root0, Paul Singer1, Phyllis M Skoy2, Donna Baier Stein3, Grace Anne Stevens4, Alison Stone5, Daniel B. Summerhill6, Deborah Swift7, Beatriz Terrazas8, Meg Tuite9, Susan J. Tweit0 ...
    In The Art of Touch: Prose and Poetry from the Pandemic and Beyond, the unique voices of thirty-nine of some of the most creative thinkers of our times have been brought together to consider the profound impact of one of our five main senses: touch.Psychologists, healers, massage therapists, academics, creative writers, and others reflect on or tell personal stories about what it means to be able ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

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    Under the countless billions of stars in the universe, what forms will alien life take? How will they live? And what will happen when we meet them? Aliens: Recent Encounters collects answers to these questions from some of today's best science fiction writers. From first encounters to life alongside aliens—and stories of the aliens' own lives—here are many futures: violent and peaceful, star ... Read more

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  • Welcome to the Anthropocene

    by Alice Major ...
    Series series Robert Kroetsch Series
    Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major’s most persistent question—“Where do we fit in the universe?”—is made more urgent by the ecological calamity of human-driven climate change. Her poetry leads us to question human hierarchies, loyalties, and consciousness, and challenges us to find some humility in our overblown sense of our cosmic ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

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    by Quintan Ana Wikswo ...
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  • Lurch

    by Don McKay ...
    "[McKay's] exuberantly musical and shrewd poems are ecological in the fullest sense of the word: they seek to elucidate our relationships with our fragile dwelling places both on the earth and in our own skins." --New York Times Book ReviewE.J. Pratt Family Poetry Award, WinnerAn extraordinary collection of poems from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Don McKay.Old joke: “What’s the difference between a ... Read more

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  • Sanskrit of the Body

    by W. B. Keckler ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    In this mesmerizing debut collection, chosen by Mary Oliver for the National Poetry Series, we’re witness to an expansive travelogue of the human spirit that moves throughtfully through multiples ages, cultures, and beings. Each poem explores in depth, through pensive, evocative images, aspects of the human condition and their place within the rich continuum of animal existence. W.B. Keckler ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Hypotheticals

    by Leigh Kotsilidis ...
    For a long time, people have looked to science as a way to understand their own lives. But while science has proven itself a useful metaphor, it has just as often been exposed as being as fallible as the flawed humans who lean on it. Newcomer Leigh Kotsilidis's lively, thoughtful and refreshingly speculative first collection engages and questions the linguistic roots of the hypothetical, both as ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire

    by Brenda Hillman ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Winner of the Griffin Poetry Trust's International Poetry Prize (2014)Runner-up for the Northern California Book Reviewers Northern California Book Award (2014)Fire— its physical, symbolic, political, and spiritual forms—is the fourth and final subject in Brenda Hillman's masterful series on the elements. Her previous volumes—Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water—have addressed ... Read more

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  • Cascade Experiment

    Selected Poems

    by Alice Fulton ...
    Highlights from each of Alice Fulton's groundbreaking, prize-winning poetry books.Over the past twenty years, Alice Fulton has emerged as one of the most brilliant and honored poets of her generation. She is also among the most thrillingly inventive, compassionate, and necessary. Cascade Experiment charts the evolution of a poetics that revises the limits of language, emotion, and thought. ... Read more

    $12.19 CAD