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  • Marian Engel's Notebooksby Christl Verduyn

    Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 48.95

    Marian Engel emerged as a writer during that period in Canada when nationalism increased and "new feminism" dawned. Although she is recognized as a distinguished woman of letters, she has not been widely studied; consequently we know relatively little about her and her craft. The material collected in Marian Engel's Notebooks: "Ah, mon cahier, écoute..."... more...

  • Martyrology Book 6 Booksby bp Nichol

    Coach House Books 1994; US$ 12.95

    'All of Nichol's work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey through different ways of being. Language is both the poet?s instructor and, through its various... more...

  • The Lily Pondby Mike Barnes

    Biblioasis 2008; US$ 17.95

    A memoir that explores the author's thirty-plus years of living with bipolar disorder. more...

  • Going Homeby Tim Lilburn

    House of Anansi Press 2011; US$ 18.95

    Tim Lilburn has long been recognized for his ability to explore issues of ecology from a variety of viewpoints ? philosophical, moral, ethical, even poetic. This new collection expands on his thoughts in surprising and enlightening ways, concentrating on how we relate (often uneasily) to our physical landscape in Canada and the United States. Going... more...

  • Workbookby Steven Heighton

    ECW Press 2011; US$ 11.95

    A fresh and provocative picture of what it means to create literature, this collection of Steven Heighton’s notes to himself as he writes peeks into the mind of an acclaimed author. The short pieces reveal Heighton’s pointed, cutting take on his own work and materialize the musings and meditations that come to him as he scribbles. Offering... more...

  • Brave New Avant Gardeby Marc James Leger

    John Hunt Publishing 2012; US$ 9.99

    Brave New Avant Garde is a collection of essays that ask the questions: what is an adequate model of contemporary avant garde practice and what are its theoretical premises? With this it asks the related question, echoing Alain Badiou: must the avant garde hypothesis be abandoned? Brave New Avant Garde stands in opposition to postmodern... more...

  • Joel Barlow, American Diplomat and Nation Builderby Peter P. Hill

    Potomac Books Inc. 2012; US$ 34.95

    The fascinating biography of one of America's most colorful diplomats more...

  • The Reverend Edward Taylor’s Sacramental Meditations on the Song of Songsby Timothy Hessel-Robinson

    The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 159.95

    This text is the first to employ and semiotic theory, gender and sexuality studies to render a fresh reading of Taylor’s erotically charged devotion more...

  • Pupaby Catherine Graham

    Insomniac Press 2003; US$ 9.95

    Losing one's parents is a growth experience many people can relate to. Catherine Graham's collection of poems, Pupa ? fittingly named after the chrysalis stage of an insect ? intimately explores this loss, employing metaphor and rhythm evocatively. Like all memorable poets, Graham imbues daily events with transcendent relevance. more...

  • What's a Black Critic To Do?by Donna Bailey Nurse

    Insomniac Press 2003; US$ 16.95

    This groundbreaking collection of profiles, interviews, essays and reviews on such well-known black writers and artists as Nalo Hopkinson, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Lawrence Hill and Edwidge Danticat constitutes a frank conversation on the significance of race in contemporary Black Canadian and American literature. What's a Black Critic to Do? is... more...