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Marian Engel's Notebooks
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 48.95Marian 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 Books
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 Pond
Biblioasis 2008; US$ 17.95A memoir that explores the author's thirty-plus years of living with bipolar disorder. more...
Going Home
House of Anansi Press 2011; US$ 18.95Tim 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...
Workbook
ECW Press 2011; US$ 11.95A 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 Garde
John Hunt Publishing 2012; US$ 9.99Brave 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 Builder
Potomac Books Inc. 2012; US$ 34.95The fascinating biography of one of America's most colorful diplomats more...
The Reverend Edward Taylors Sacramental Meditations on the Song of Songs
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 159.95This text is the first to employ and semiotic theory, gender and sexuality studies to render a fresh reading of Taylors erotically charged devotion more...
Pupa
Insomniac Press 2003; US$ 9.95Losing 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?
Insomniac Press 2003; US$ 16.95This 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...









