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{"id":6582719021115,"title":"Ana Historic","handle":"ana-historic","description":"\u003cp\u003eA classic of Canadian literature, here is the A List edition of Daphne Marlatt’s utterly original novel about rescuing a forgotten woman from obscurity. Featuring a new introduced by celebrated author Lynn Crosbie.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAna Historic\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of Mrs. Richards, a woman of no history, who appears briefly in 1873 in the civic archives of Vancouver. It is also the story of Annie, a contemporary, who becomes obsessed with the possibilities of Mrs. Richards’s life.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:05:46-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:05:46-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","By (author) Marlatt Daphne","Introduction by Crosbie Lynn","pub date: 2013-07-22"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403402723387,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770893757","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Ana Historic - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770893757","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39412866678843,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770893702","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Ana Historic - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":191,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770893702","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39412866744379,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770895584","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Ana Historic - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770895584","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cec969e8-558a-4d6c-b399-ffabbf26584a.jpg?v=1678595871"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cec969e8-558a-4d6c-b399-ffabbf26584a.jpg?v=1678595871","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324472934459,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cec969e8-558a-4d6c-b399-ffabbf26584a.jpg?v=1678595871"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cec969e8-558a-4d6c-b399-ffabbf26584a.jpg?v=1678595871","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eA classic of Canadian literature, here is the A List edition of Daphne Marlatt’s utterly original novel about rescuing a forgotten woman from obscurity. Featuring a new introduced by celebrated author Lynn Crosbie.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAna Historic\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of Mrs. Richards, a woman of no history, who appears briefly in 1873 in the civic archives of Vancouver. It is also the story of Annie, a contemporary, who becomes obsessed with the possibilities of Mrs. Richards’s life.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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A CanLit classic, here is the A List edition of Daphne Marlatt’s utterly original novel about rescuing a forgotten woman from obscurity.
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{"id":6813792206907,"title":"Furious","handle":"furious","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReissued for the first time in a handsome A List edition, the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning collection from one of Canada’s most profoundly inventive and eminent poets, featuring an introduction by award-winning poet Sonnet L’Abbé.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poetry in the Governor General’s Award–winning collection \u003ci\u003eFurious\u003c\/i\u003e is charged with Erin Moure’s characteristic energy and wit as she explores the limits of pure reason and the language of power. There is, too, a fresh and often celebratory look at love, and, in an unusual finale, “The Acts,” Moure challenges us to explore a feminist aesthetic: of thinking, of the page, of working life and the possibility of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-23T13:10:54-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T09:19:45-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","Adult Poetry","By (author) Moure Erín","Feminist Reads","Introduction by L’Abbé Sonnet","pub date: 2018-08-07"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1695,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40205706100795,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487004286","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Furious - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1695,"weight":140,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487004286","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ca52c37a-523d-418a-82a9-615bc683d50f.jpg?v=1682245690"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ca52c37a-523d-418a-82a9-615bc683d50f.jpg?v=1682245690","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23431559020603,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ca52c37a-523d-418a-82a9-615bc683d50f.jpg?v=1682245690"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ca52c37a-523d-418a-82a9-615bc683d50f.jpg?v=1682245690","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReissued for the first time in a handsome A List edition, the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning collection from one of Canada’s most profoundly inventive and eminent poets, featuring an introduction by award-winning poet Sonnet L’Abbé.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poetry in the Governor General’s Award–winning collection \u003ci\u003eFurious\u003c\/i\u003e is charged with Erin Moure’s characteristic energy and wit as she explores the limits of pure reason and the language of power. There is, too, a fresh and often celebratory look at love, and, in an unusual finale, “The Acts,” Moure challenges us to explore a feminist aesthetic: of thinking, of the page, of working life and the possibility of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Furious
The early Governor General’s Literary Award–winning collection from one of Canada’s most profoundly inventive and eminent poets.
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It’s the first really new approach to theatre in I don’t know how long.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"John Huston, film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe influence of \u003cem\u003eTamara\u003c\/em\u003e can be seen in works such as the popular non-linear play \u003cem\u003eSleep No More\u003c\/em\u003e and the interactive film \u003cem\u003eBlack Mirror:Bandersnatch\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eTamara\u003c\/em\u003e has been praised by publications including \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePeople\u003c\/em\u003e magazine.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eIn a talk with J. J. Abrams and James Cameron, Steven Spielberg praised the play as an influence on his storytelling.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Audacious and fascinating.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Vanity Fair","OtherText_Review_1":"A theatrical event of the year . . . perhaps of a lifetime.","OtherText_Review_10":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTamara\u003c\/em\u003e is a mind-blowing theatrical experience. Not since the Royal Shakespeare Company staged Nicholas Nickelby has New York experienced a more unique presentation than this.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"WCTO Radio","OtherText_Review_11":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTamara\u003c\/em\u003e carries the voyeurism that is at the heart of all theatre to its ultimate extreme . . . John Krizanc is canny enough to offer more than novelty. The play becomes a multi-levelled examination of the effect of repression on art — filled with decadence, fear, sterility, and impotence.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Vancouver Province","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Los Angeles Times","OtherText_Review_2":"A spectacle that leaves theatregoers gasping!","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"People","OtherText_Review_3":"Sizzling time for sensualists and gourmands.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"New York Magazine","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTamara\u003c\/em\u003e is a shot of adrenaline.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_5":"At once a delightful game, a masterful whodunit.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Village Voice","OtherText_Review_6":"Innovative . . . Revolutionary.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Christian Science Monitor","OtherText_Review_7":"Boundary-busting . . . The playlets are so cleverly and strongly written that each one gives you a new piece of the puzzle.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"John Krizanc’s play is literate, intricate, astonishing, and boldly, unabashedly theatrical . . . It glints with subtle perceptions, illuminations, snappy dialogue . . . Its brilliant varied strands are woven seamlessly into a gorgeous tapestry that becomes a net of allurement . . . Tamara is magnifico, history-making, the theatrical event of the year. Maybe of many years.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Drama-Logue","OtherText_Review_9":"A veritable hotbed of sex and politics, a hothouse of passions and violence. An intimacy unlike any other play seen before. A total theatrical experience.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"United Press International","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Available for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc’s internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2021-08-03","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Available for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc’s internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Tamara
Available for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc’s internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy.
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Rochdale
The fascinating story of Rochdale's rise and fall is told in this well-researched, entertaining book.
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{"id":6816109035579,"title":"The Honeyman Festival","handle":"the-honeyman-festival","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1970, \u003cem\u003eThe Honeyman Festival\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles one night in the life of Minn Burge, a woman in her mid-thirties who is torn between affection for her family and the need for a life in which impulse and intelligence can once again find play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePregnant with her fourth child, and unable to take refuge in facile resolutions, Minn interrogates her life with a razor-edge passion in which many readers will find they too are involved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking novel by one of Canada’s most beloved novelists is now available in a beautifully packaged A List edition, featuring an introduction by novelist and short story writer Caroline Adderson.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-25T14:25:23-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-25T11:45:35-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","By (author) Engel Marian","Introduction by Adderson Caroline","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2014-08-15"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40213528444987,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898318","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Honeyman Festival - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770898318","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40213529264187,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898516","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Honeyman Festival - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770898516","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40213529526331,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898523","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Honeyman Festival - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770898523","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_300de8e2-e628-4b23-909b-5ffe8e3eeceb.jpg?v=1678601563"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_300de8e2-e628-4b23-909b-5ffe8e3eeceb.jpg?v=1678601563","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324561735739,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_300de8e2-e628-4b23-909b-5ffe8e3eeceb.jpg?v=1678601563"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_300de8e2-e628-4b23-909b-5ffe8e3eeceb.jpg?v=1678601563","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1970, \u003cem\u003eThe Honeyman Festival\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles one night in the life of Minn Burge, a woman in her mid-thirties who is torn between affection for her family and the need for a life in which impulse and intelligence can once again find play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePregnant with her fourth child, and unable to take refuge in facile resolutions, Minn interrogates her life with a razor-edge passion in which many readers will find they too are involved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking novel by one of Canada’s most beloved novelists is now available in a beautifully packaged A List edition, featuring an introduction by novelist and short story writer Caroline Adderson.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Honeyman Festival
A night in the life of a woman in her mid-thirties who is torn between her family and the need for a life in which impulse can once again find play.
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{"id":6814252433467,"title":"The Bush Garden","handle":"the-bush-garden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginally published in 1971,\u003ci\u003eThe Bush Garden \u003c\/i\u003efeatures Northrop Frye’s timeless essays on Canadian literature and painting, and an introduction by bestselling author Lisa Moore.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this cogent collection of essays written between 1943 and 1969, formidable literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye explores the Canadian imagination through the lens of the country’s artistic output: prose, poetry, and paintings. Frye offers insightful commentary on the works that shaped a “Canadian sensibility,” and includes a comprehensive survey of the landscape of Canadian poetry throughout the 1950s, including astute criticism of the work of E. J. 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She lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Introduction by","Contributor_0":"Frye, Northrop (CA)","Contributor_1":"Moore, Lisa (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginally published in 1971,\u003ci\u003eThe Bush Garden \u003c\/i\u003efeatures Northrop Frye’s timeless essays on Canadian literature and painting, and an introduction by bestselling author Lisa Moore.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this cogent collection of essays written between 1943 and 1969, formidable literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye explores the Canadian imagination through the lens of the country’s artistic output: prose, poetry, and paintings. Frye offers insightful commentary on the works that shaped a “Canadian sensibility,” and includes a comprehensive survey of the landscape of Canadian poetry throughout the 1950s, including astute criticism of the work of E. J. 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An environment turned outward towards the sea, like so much of Newfoundland, and one turned towards inland seas, like so much of the Maritimes, are an imaginative contrast: anyone who has been conditioned by one in his early years can hardly be conditioned by the other in the same way. Anyone brought up on the urban plain of Southern Ontario or the gentle pays farmland along the south shore of the St. Lawrence may become fascinated by the great sprawling wilderness of Northern Ontario or Ungava, may move their and live with its people and become accepted as one of them, but if he paints or writes about it he will paint or write as an imaginative foreigner. And what can there be in common between an imagination nurtured on the prairies, where it is a centre of consciousness diffusing itself over a vast flat expanse stretching to a remote horizon, and one nurtured in British Columbia, where it is in the midst of gigantic trees and mountains leaping into the sky all around it, and obliterating the horizon everywhere?\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Any publication by Northrop Frye is an important literary event; this one is of the highest importance to Canadian literature. Here Frye has collected all the essays he believes to be of permanent value on Canadian writing and painting. His tremendous intelligence and erudition is thus focused on a much smaller field of vision than it normally is. Tethered in its own backyard, as it were, this formidable creature can be observed more closely than it can be when it roams the far reaches of the literary world.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"Frye’s handiwork is equivalent to most everyone’s masterwork. Nor can I imagine a more perceptive book being written about the Canadian poetic imagination. Northrop Frye resembles nobody so much as a poet Midas — everything he touches turns into poetic metaphor.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"These reviews are still relevant, partly because Frye is such a good critic and partly because his reviews embraced such a wide range of poetry that, perhaps especially in retrospect, they provide a fascinating sense of process through which a literature develops . . . We can respond to the immediate perceptions of a subtle and literate critical mind.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Maclean’s","OtherText_Review_3":"Perhaps the most remarkable thing about The Bush Garden is that it reveals Northrop Frye as a practical critic. He does not try to fit everything he reads into preconceived theories, and the range of his sympathies is admirably wide. 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The Bush Garden
Originally published by Anansi in 1971, this attractive A List edition features Northrop Frye’s timeless essays on literature and painting.
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{"id":6813806657595,"title":"Power Politics","handle":"power-politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing and prophetic author of \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, Margaret Atwood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood’s \u003ci\u003ePower Politics\u003c\/i\u003e startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple, universal. Clear, direct, wry, and unrelenting — Atwood’s poetic powers are honed to perfection in this seminal work from her early career.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-23T13:02:49-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T09:25:42-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","Adult Poetry","By (author) Atwood Margaret","Feminist Reads","Introduction by Zwicky Jan","pub date: 2018-03-06"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40205725990971,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487004552","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Power Politics - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":100,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487004552","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205976469563,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849121","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Power Politics - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887849121","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205977157691,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897366","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Power Politics - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897366","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_de5d8510-3276-48d9-a696-e547dc2abcbf.jpg?v=1678600256"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_de5d8510-3276-48d9-a696-e547dc2abcbf.jpg?v=1678600256","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324551970875,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_de5d8510-3276-48d9-a696-e547dc2abcbf.jpg?v=1678600256"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_de5d8510-3276-48d9-a696-e547dc2abcbf.jpg?v=1678600256","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing and prophetic author of \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, Margaret Atwood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood’s \u003ci\u003ePower Politics\u003c\/i\u003e startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple, universal. Clear, direct, wry, and unrelenting — Atwood’s poetic powers are honed to perfection in this seminal work from her early career.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Her other works of fiction include \u003cem\u003eCat’s Eye\u003c\/em\u003e, finalist for the 1989 Booker Prize; \u003cem\u003eAlias Grace\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; \u003cem\u003eThe Blind Assassin\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; The MaddAddam Trilogy; and \u003cem\u003eHag-Seed\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Innovator’s Award. 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It is a measure of her achievement that, over decades, these masterful poems continue to speak with undiminished accuracy.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Anne Michaels","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Twenty-five years after its initial publication, Power Politics remains a path-breaking lyric utterance on sexual politics and human survival, unflinching in its emotional honesty. Beyond truth, Atwood writes, tenacity . . . and no poet has proven more prescient or more courageous in this pursuit. 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Read them and shiver.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Sharon Thesen","OtherText_Accolades_4":"Brilliant precisionist and angry lover, Margaret Atwood performs an autopsy on a love affair that’s dead but won’t lie down. I feel again the thrill and shock I experienced on first reading these ruthless and moving poems. Power Politics changed the definition of the love poem, the long poem, and, I believe, the course of Canadian poetry. It cuts like a laser beam. It goes beyond sexual politics into the dark heart of a tottering global village.","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Phyllis Webb","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eATWOOD IS HOTTER THAN EVER:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe hugely acclaimed Handmaid’s Tale television series swept the 2017 Emmy Awards, advancing a discourse on women’s rights and body politics that is becoming rather disturbingly timely given the current political climate in the U.S., and indeed, North America. 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This book, to those who take it straight, moves almost unwillingly, but relentlessly, through a brilliant schema of unflagging suspense and pitches of drama . . . Atwood’s poems are short, glistening with terse bright images, un-tentative, closing like a vise. These are all formed perfections.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing, Margaret Atwood.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-03-06","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"A List","ShortDescription":"A groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing, Margaret Atwood.","Subtitle":"Poems","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Power Politics
A groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing, Margaret Atwood.
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Stilt Jack
The much-loved and critically undervalued second (and final) book of poems by British-Canadian Maritimes poet John Thompson.
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When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks
The first collection of short fiction from bestselling author Austin Clarke is a provocative exploration of the Black immigrant experience in Canada.
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The Selected Short Fiction of Lisa Moore
The Selected Short Fiction of Lisa Moore shows us that love, alongside desire, can sometimes come as a surprise, sometimes an ambush.
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Kamouraska
A classic of Canadian literature by the great Québécoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec.
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Five Legs
The subversive tale of two guilt-ridden young men caught in the grip of the North American Protestant ethic, with its emotional and sexual torments.
