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{"id":6812120318011,"title":"The Caiplie Caves","handle":"the-caiplie-caves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, T. S. Eliot Prize\u003cbr\u003e\nFinalist, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\nA CBC Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGriffin Poetry Prize winner Karen Solie’s new collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/em\u003e, interrogates violence, power, economies, self-delusion, and belief in poems that orbit the Caves of Caiplie on the coast of Scotland.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the seventh century, on the coast of Fife, Scotland, an Irish missionary named Ethernan withdrew to a cave in order to decide whether to establish a priory on May Island, directly opposite, in the Firth of Forth, or pursue a hermit’s solitude. His decision would have been informed by the realities of war, religious colonization, and ideas of progress, power, and corruption, and complicated by personal interest, grief, confusion, and a faith (religious and secular) under extreme duress. His choice between life as an “active” or a “contemplative” was one between public and private action. Along with the question of what constitutes action, it remains a choice central to political and private life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKaren Solie’s fifth book of poetry, \u003cem\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/em\u003e, attends to transition in times of crisis. Around passages informed by Ethernan’s story are poems that orbit the geographical location of the caves but that range through the ages, addressing violence, power, work, economies, self-delusion, and belief. Indecision and necessity are inseparable companions. 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The Caiplie Caves
The Caiplie Caves interrogates violence, economies, self-delusion, and belief in poems that orbit the Caves of Caiplie on the coast of Scotland.
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From the aunts who encouraged her nascent writing career to the influence of George Orwell’s \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, we trace the movement of Atwood’s fertile and curious mind in action over the years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAtwood’s controversial political pieces, “Napoleon’s Two Biggest Mistakes” and “Letter to America” — both not-so-veiled warnings about the repercussions of the war in Iraq — also appear, alongside pieces that exhibit her active concern for the environment, the North, and the future of the human race. 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Moving Targets
Moving Targets is an expansive and essential collection of critical prose by legendary novelist, poet, and essayist Margaret Atwood.
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Pallbearing
An honest and unaffected collection of human experiences that deftly tackles themes of grief, loss, missed opportunities, and the pain of letting go.
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Not One of These Poems Is About You
From Teva Harrison, the award-winning author and illustrator of In-Between Days, comes a powerful work of poetry and art.
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{"id":6811233878075,"title":"Congratulations, Rhododendrons","handle":"congratulations-rhododendrons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn her debut collection, \u003ci\u003eCongratulations, Rhododendrons\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning poet Mary Germaine offers love poems to an insistently unlovely world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough poems that speak to plastic bags and drones as much as they admire roses and the moon, Germaine surfs the confluence of artificial and natural environments, technology, and our small but consequential feelings about them. At turns devotional and suspicious, these poems toe the boundaries of intimacy, responsibility, and reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn anxious times, anything can be taken as a sign; a crow, a talking coin, and a news report are all sources of information whose truth (or “fake-ness”) demand investigation. 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At turns devotional and suspicious, these poems toe the boundaries of intimacy, responsibility, and reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn anxious times, anything can be taken as a sign; a crow, a talking coin, and a news report are all sources of information whose truth (or “fake-ness”) demand investigation. Germaine’s poems scroll from a shrine in Lourdes to an augmented-reality sandbox, from a mall filled with loitering ex–love interests to a fairy-tale ending where all the men turn out to be chairs. Funny, provocative, sly, and melancholic, \u003ci\u003eCongratulations, Rhododendrons \u003c\/i\u003emakes a case for the hope that every apparent disaster of social investment might in the end be redeemed as meaningful, genuine, or at least in some way helpful.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Utterly contemporary and truly original, these poems meander; they play at the casual; they reflect at once a frolicking lyric sensibility and an incisive intelligence preoccupied with the big questions: the nature of nature, of time, perception, knowledge, and the self. Acknowledging this time of diminishment, of counting our losses, the poems nonetheless discover joy in the act of engaging.” — \u003cstrong\u003eMary Dalton, author of Hooking: A Book of Centos\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Mary Dalton, author of Hooking: A Book of Centos","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePOETRY AT ITS MOST FRESH AND TIMELY: \u003c\\\/strong\u003eThematically, Germaine’s poems could not be more exciting or timely. She explores the intersections of technology and social life, and the tensions swirling around our relationships to our devices, to AI, to the media, to each other, and to the natural world. 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Congratulations, Rhododendrons
In her debut collection, Congratulations, Rhododendrons, award-winning poet Mary Germaine offers love poems to an insistently unlovely world.
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No Pain Like This Body
The A List edition of Harold Sonny Ladoo’s enduring novel, a raw, unsentimental story of life in a small Caribbean community.
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to 12
/ grades 4
to 7
Words Matter
A lyrical, illustrated account of the student-led White Rose Resistance, and the enduring power of words and personal sacrifice.
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A Single Dreadlock
When Lovie moves from Jamaica to Newfoundland, his classmates make fun of his hair. But with Grandma's help, Lovie learns to love and embrace himself.
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The Creation of Half-Broken People
Stupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University’s Windham–Campbell Prize
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A shy young child talks about situations when shyness takes over and what helps them engage more fully. A companion to Angry Me and Peaceful Me.
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Others Like Me
A deeply personal exploration of childless and childfree womenn in their own words.
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ages 8
to 12
/ grades 3
to 7
Birds on the Brain
This sequel to the award-winning Book Uncle and Me features bird lover Reeni and her quest to save her city’s bird count event.
