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Finally, the teacher makes the biggest sacrifice she knows -- her manuscript -- in order to save the friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a thought-provoking and emotionally powerful novel that raises intriguing and child-friendly questions about how real life and stories are interwoven, who owns stories, and whether they can ever truly disappear. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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That Night's Train
A young motherless girl becomes friends with a teacher who is writing a novel. A moving book about promises and the nature of stories.
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{"id":6817705295931,"title":"Life Is About Losing Everything","handle":"life-is-about-losing-everything","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the wildly controversial books \u003cem\u003eLiar \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePaul's Case \u003c\/em\u003ecomes one of the most anticipated — and perhaps, in some quarters, feared — books of the year. This is author Lynn Crosbie at her most honest, most cutting, most hilarious, and most heartbreaking. The stories told here are at once a cache, a repository, of a seven-year period in the author's life; and, too, a gymnasium, a place where she can flex her prodigious wit and her dazzling stash of literary tricks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeft with matters both low- and highbrow (here are stories about 80s big-hair bands and the lasting, theological value of the Rocky series; here, too are stories contemplating critical theory and fine art), \u003cem\u003eLife Is About Losing Everything\u003c\/em\u003e speaks with manic yet grave authority about risking and losing everything, and then sorting through the remains to discover what is beautiful, what is trash, and what, ultimately, belongs.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-28T16:54:46-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:25:24-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["By (author) Crosbie Lynn","House of Anansi Press","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2012-05-05"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":2495,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40220051177531,"title":"trade paperback with flaps","option1":"trade paperback with flaps","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890039","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Life Is About Losing Everything - trade paperback with flaps","public_title":"trade paperback with flaps","options":["trade paperback with flaps"],"price":2495,"weight":426,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770890039","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40220216197179,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770891906","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Life Is About Losing Everything - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770891906","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40220217278523,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770896826","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Life Is About Losing Everything - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770896826","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58e6825f-6b22-4948-8745-1cc72ba69c64.jpg?v=1678598122"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58e6825f-6b22-4948-8745-1cc72ba69c64.jpg?v=1678598122","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324529590331,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.655,"height":2549,"width":1669,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58e6825f-6b22-4948-8745-1cc72ba69c64.jpg?v=1678598122"},"aspect_ratio":0.655,"height":2549,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58e6825f-6b22-4948-8745-1cc72ba69c64.jpg?v=1678598122","width":1669}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the wildly controversial books \u003cem\u003eLiar \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePaul's Case \u003c\/em\u003ecomes one of the most anticipated — and perhaps, in some quarters, feared — books of the year. 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[Crosbie] will have even the most hard-boiled reader sobbing.” — \u003cstrong\u003eRobert J. Wiersema, \u003cem\u003eEdmonton Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Robert J. Wiersema","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“... powerful ... Life is About Losing Everything [is] a book that is felt as much as it is read.” — \u003cstrong\u003eMark Paterson, \u003cem\u003eRover Arts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Mark Paterson","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Rover Arts","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“Should we try to separate fact from fiction? Can we? Provocative, entertaining and poignant, Life is About Losing Everything makes us sweat for the answers.” — \u003cstrong\u003eBrett Joseph Grubisic, \u003cem\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Brett Joseph Grubisic","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“... focused, lucid, and darkly comic ...” — \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Hingston, \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Michael Hingston","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Winnipeg Review","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“... raw and honest ... although [Crosbie's] experiences are unique, the themes are universal.” — \u003cstrong\u003eMichelle Singerman, \u003cem\u003ePost City Magazines\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Michelle Singerman","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Post City Magazines","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“Life is About Losing Everything courageously recounts an ugly side of life.” — \u003cstrong\u003eHeather Cromarty, \u003cem\u003eToronto Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Auth":"Heather Cromarty","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Toronto Review of Books","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Lynn Crosbie gives us a fiery, honest, and heartbreaking blend of personal memoir and fiction that sketches seven tumultuous years in her life.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2012-05-05","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Lynn Crosbie gives us a fiery, honest, and heartbreaking blend of personal memoir and fiction that sketches seven tumultuous years in her life.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Life Is About Losing Everything
Lynn Crosbie gives us a fiery, honest, and heartbreaking blend of personal memoir and fiction that sketches seven tumultuous years in her life.
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Roch Carrier’s La Guerre trilogy is a vital, moving, and assured portrait of life in Quebec, and one of the major achievements in Quebec literature.
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Past and present merge to convey the polar landscape’s immense mysteries, and the lives of those voyagers compelled to seek answers in its icy expanses. Ed O’Loughlin is a skilled cartographer of both the Arctic and the human heart. What a magnificent novel.” — \u003cstrong\u003eRon Rash, author of Serena and Above the Waterfall\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Ron Rash, author of Serena and Above the Waterfall","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Few novelists have the temerity to offer up mystery, suspense, adventure, and a famous historical puzzle in a single novel. 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In Minds of Winter, Ed O’Loughlin’s brilliant story of polar exploration, time itself is an Arctic: a mysterious dimension of sun craze and apparitions, chance encounters and destiny. The mechanism of this novel is fascinating to observe, its implications are deeply human. In O’Loughlin’s work, our desire for knowledge, our obsession with the past, our grappling with life itself … all of it is generously, wittily on display.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eScotiabank Giller Prize Jury Citation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury Citation","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Hugely ambitious…[O’Loughlin] displays a prodigious imagination.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Readers who delight in history and mystery mixed together will appreciate O’Loughlin’s shifting drifts of reality and imagination.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“[A] masterly, richly researched, vastly ranging tale.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“Minds of Winter proves to be an exhilarating romp through the age of polar exploration … like the search for Franklin himself, Minds of Winter is a story of death and glory, loss and triumph and, ultimately, the mighty power of the imagination in the face of unrelenting struggle.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“In both concept and execution the novel is a serious piece of work at once vastly entertaining and ambitious on a scale that leaves much of contemporary Irish fiction looking woefully insubstantial … there will be few better historical novels published this year.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Sunday Times","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“[A] marvel of a novel.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Irish Independent","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The unexpected meeting of two present-day travellers exposes one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeName_0":"The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction","PrizeName_1":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeYear_0":"2017","PrizeYear_1":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"Digital Audio, MP3","PublicationDate":"2017-02-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The unexpected meeting of two present-day travellers exposes one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
Minds of Winter
The unexpected meeting of two present-day travellers exposes one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration.
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Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada
A handbook for Americans who refused to serve as draftees in the Vietnam War and were considering immigrating to Canada, with new modern relevance.
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{"id":6814263443515,"title":"Heart Residence","handle":"heart-residence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA landmark collection from one of Canada’s literary icons, and the founder of House of Anansi Press, \u003ci\u003eHeart Residence\u003c\/i\u003e collects for the first time work from all corners of Dennis Lee’s extraordinary career.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is an exhilarating revelation. No other poet in Canada has the depth and range of Dennis Lee — jazzman, jester, and metaphysician, hardball political thinker and passionate lover, he has been publishing poems for fifty years. His first book, \u003ci\u003eKingdom of Absence\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1967, was the founding publication of House of Anansi Press. Since then Lee has produced work across the poetic spectrum, from nursery rhymes and skipping songs to uncompromising moral introspection to full-tilt love songs, plangent psalms, and ecstatic, solitary prayer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are poets’ poets and people’s poets. And then there are those few who are neither and both: the few who become, over time, part of the warp and weft of their culture. \u003ci\u003eHeart Residence\u003c\/i\u003e collects, for the first time, work from all corners of this extraordinary career. In its verve and variety, this is a one-of-a-kind collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:51-05:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:27:54-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Lee Dennis","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2017-04-08"],"price":2995,"price_min":2995,"price_max":2995,"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":40206695530555,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001490","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Heart Residence - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2995,"weight":720,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487001490","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_b3cc354a-fcc9-4429-8c0f-7de8232b665d.jpg?v=1678601480"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_b3cc354a-fcc9-4429-8c0f-7de8232b665d.jpg?v=1678601480","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324561539131,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.657,"height":2625,"width":1725,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_b3cc354a-fcc9-4429-8c0f-7de8232b665d.jpg?v=1678601480"},"aspect_ratio":0.657,"height":2625,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_b3cc354a-fcc9-4429-8c0f-7de8232b665d.jpg?v=1678601480","width":1725}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA landmark collection from one of Canada’s literary icons, and the founder of House of Anansi Press, \u003ci\u003eHeart Residence\u003c\/i\u003e collects for the first time work from all corners of Dennis Lee’s extraordinary career.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is an exhilarating revelation. No other poet in Canada has the depth and range of Dennis Lee — jazzman, jester, and metaphysician, hardball political thinker and passionate lover, he has been publishing poems for fifty years. His first book, \u003ci\u003eKingdom of Absence\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1967, was the founding publication of House of Anansi Press. Since then Lee has produced work across the poetic spectrum, from nursery rhymes and skipping songs to uncompromising moral introspection to full-tilt love songs, plangent psalms, and ecstatic, solitary prayer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are poets’ poets and people’s poets. And then there are those few who are neither and both: the few who become, over time, part of the warp and weft of their culture. \u003ci\u003eHeart Residence\u003c\/i\u003e collects, for the first time, work from all corners of this extraordinary career. In its verve and variety, this is a one-of-a-kind collection.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Heart Residence
A landmark collection from one of Canada’s literary icons, and the co-founder of House of Anansi Press.
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The Whirlpool
From Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner Laurel Croza comes a mesmerizing collection of short stories about the whirlpool of adolescence.
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A small town lives in terror of the Outlaw, but one day, he disappears – and a mysterious stranger rides into town …
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His play \u003cem\u003eBotticelli in the Fire\u003c\/em\u003e won the 2017 Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best New Play and is currently being adapted into a feature by filmmaker Stephen Dunn. From 2012 to 2016, in collaboration with William Ellis, Tannahill ran the alternative art space Videofag, which became an influential hub for queer and avant-garde work in Canada. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eTheatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama\u003c\/em\u003e and T\u003cem\u003ehe Videofag Book\u003c\/em\u003e; and his latest play, \u003cem\u003eDeclarations\u003c\/em\u003e, will be published to coincide with its premiere at Canadian Stage in January 2018. Tannahill’s films and multimedia performances have been presented at festivals and galleries such as the Toronto International Film Festival, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Tribeca Film Festival. 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Born in 1988 in Ottawa, Ontario, he now makes his home in London, U.K.\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Read by","Contributor_0":"Tannahill, Jordan (CA)","Contributor_1":"Vanderham, Jacob","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill comes a masterful and moving novel in the tradition of Ben Lerner’s \u003ci\u003eLeaving the Atocha Station \u003c\/i\u003eand Sheila Heti’s \u003ci\u003eHow Should a Person Be\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 11:04 a.m. on January 21st, 2017, Jordan opens the door to his mother’s bedroom. As his eyes adjust to the half-light, he finds her lying in bed, eyes closed and mouth agape. In that instant he cannot tell whether she is asleep or dead. The sight of his mother's body, caught between these two possibilities, causes Jordan to plunge headlong into the uncertain depths of consciousness itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom androids to cannibals to sex clubs, an unforgettable personal odyssey emerges, populated by a cast of sublime outsiders in search for the ever-elusive nature of self. 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He is the youngest-ever winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. He’s been called a “zeitgeist savant” by the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, “the future of Canadian theatre” by \u003cem\u003eNow Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and “the hottest name in Canadian theatre” by the \u003cem\u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTERNATIONAL AUDIENCES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eHis virtual reality performance \u003cem\u003eDraw Me Close\u003c\/em\u003e, a co-production between the National Theatre (U.K.) and the National Film Board of Canada, was a collaboration with acclaimed author Teva Harrison and premiered in May 2017 at the Tribeca Film Festival. Tannahill’s production of Sheila Heti's \u003cem\u003eAll Our Happy Days Are Stupid\u003c\/em\u003e, directed with collaborator Erin Brubacher, premiered at Videofag in 2013 and went on to sold-out productions at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre and New York City’s The Kitchen in 2015. Liminal is being made into a feature length art film by the NFB and the National Theatre in the UK.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGROUNDBREAKING LGBTQ ARTIST:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eFrom 2012-2016, in collaboration with William Ellis, Tannahill ran the alternative art space Videofag out of their home in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood. Over the four years of its operation, Videofag became an influential hub for queer and avant-garde work in Canada.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePUBLICATION TIE-IN WITH HIS NEW PLAY, \u003cem\u003eDECLARATIONS\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eLiminal, which is an expansion of his play Declarations, published to coincide with the play’s premiere at CanStage in January 2018. Tannahill published two other works in Fall 2017: \u003cem\u003eThe Videofag Book\u003c\/em\u003e (BookThug), an anthology of essays, photographs, play-texts, and ruminations about the space; and his latest play, \u003cem\u003eDeclarations\u003c\/em\u003e (Coach House Books).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am wary of revelations. I find anyone claiming to have them dubious. They’re usually charlatans, the ultra-religious, or insane (not that these three types are mutually exclusive; in fact they rarely are). And I find any description of these revelations some combination of sinister and comical, like John Smith receiving golden plates from the angel Moroni in a secret language only he can translate. Even the words “revelation” and “epiphany” are mired in Christian connotations. The first conjures images of John on the island of Patmos having visions of the Whore of Babylon and the Beast, while the second is the realization by the wise men that Christ is the Son of God, rendered throughout art history as the Adoration of the Magi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI suppose the synonym that feels the least corrupted by spiritual chicanery is “eureka,” and yet this word feels burdened by the mythos of masculine scientific discovery, from Archimedes fateful bath to Newton’s gravity-weighted apple (why do I always imagine it hitting his head?) Darwin said he could remember the exact moment during a carriage ride in which he was struck by his “hunch” about natural selection. Nikola Tesla, while recuperating from a recent breakdown brought on by his obsession to solve the mystery of alternating current, was on a walk with a friend in Budapest’s Varosliget Park when he was pierced by his moment of insight. Tesla was looking into the setting sun whilst reciting a passage from Goethe’s Faust (naturally) when a vision of a functioning alternating current electric induction motor appeared to him with such clarity that he grabbed a stick and drew a diagram of it then and there in the dirt. One can almost hear the angelic choral accompaniment. Perhaps because of these bearded white men and their long lineage of eurekas the word has acquired a certain sense of finitude: they each had a question and in an instant it was answered. As if, through years of research and inquiry, their minds were already filled with the necessary information and all that was required was that final synaptic connection to illuminate the network of association.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA word that seems part of this revelatory cohort is “vision,” which again has religious undertones, but also the unfortunate limitations of its sensory association. A vision suggests something that is seen, either literally with one’s eyes in a new way, or seen within the mind’s eye. As the ever-favoured child of the senses, we seem inclined to give seeing undo credit as the conduit of discovery. Though as Proust might agree, throughout my life I’ve probably had more ‘visions’ induced by smell than any other sense. For me, a new awareness is rarely an apparition to be seen or viewed; it does not appear to me like Tesla’s motor. It is something that is felt. An awareness that dawns and slowly spreads its light through my body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat I seek is a word that does not suggest a long-sought for answer but rather a deluge of questions. A word for kind of illumination that recalls a caver holding a torch up in an underground chamber and apprehending a few dashes of rock wall at a time, uncertain of how far the cavern extends into darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCounter-intuitively, I found something approaching this word in the Bible. The first word in the Book of Revelations — and from which it derives its name — is apokalypsis, which in its original Korine Greek means \"unveiling\" or “revelation.” I find the notion of ‘unveiling’ — of an encounter, smell, sight, sensation that unveils an infinite system of questions and discoveries (which in turn spur more questions) — to be the most vivid evocation of this I can find. I might be even inclined to use the original Greek apokalypsis, as it seems to contain the possibility of discovery in the moment of destruction. Much like the theatre; an art revealed in the moment of its disappearance. And like life itself, theatre can not be rewound or reread; it exists in the temporal present between being and un-being, in what Plato calls the “something inserted between motion and rest (. . .) in no time at all.” An art conjured in the instant of its erasure. And I like the almost preposterous gravity of the world apokalypsis; how it’s cataclysmic and eschatological associations seem to mimic the way in which one world seems to end and another begins in a moment of newfound awareness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in this instance, for what I’m about to articulate, “unveiling” is the apt word. It conjures for me the image of a man in white gloves pulling a cloth of a painting; the removal of a covering that concealed that which was there all along — something which has been rendered ever more extraordinary by the very fact of its concealment. Rather than by divine conjuring, “unveiling” suggests a moment of discovery arising from matter-of-fact and mortal circumstances. A new way of experiencing something already in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this way, the world is constantly unveiling itself; a stand of trees seen from a fresh angle, the laugher of a dog, a nameless colour, new patterns of movement, of light, of behaviour, patterns in fabric, in birds, in traffic, in music . . . In this way “revelation” is not something a bearded white man once an epoch apprehends but rather a state of becoming that imbues all things at all times. Of course to be in a state of perpetual unveiling is exhausting and disorienting; it’s essentially the way we moved through the world as babies, when everything was revealed and nothing was legible. Gradually, to make sense of the chaos, we fixed things in place, we fixed meaning, we fixed potential, we fixed objects and people and places as knowable and predictable entities and attempted to reduce the instances of unveiling because those upset the order by introducing new variables into the mix. Unveiling, by nature, un-fixes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is what happened at 11:04 a.m. on Saturday, January 21, 2017 when I walked into your bedroom and saw your body in bed. In a moment something — perhaps everything — became unveiled. And I became unfixed. It was a moment that lasted less than a second. The interval between a hand feeling water and the pain of it’s scalding heat; between sense and sensation.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJordan Tannahill is one of Canada’s biggest and most celebrated artists in the theatre world. He is the youngest-ever winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. He’s been called a “zeitgeist savant” by the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, “the future of Canadian theatre” by \u003cem\u003eNow Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and “the hottest name in Canadian theatre” by the \u003cem\u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTERNATIONAL AUDIENCES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eHis virtual reality performance \u003cem\u003eDraw Me Close\u003c\/em\u003e, a co-production between the National Theatre (U.K.) and the National Film Board of Canada, was a collaboration with acclaimed author Teva Harrison and premiered in May 2017 at the Tribeca Film Festival. Tannahill’s production of Sheila Heti's \u003cem\u003eAll Our Happy Days Are Stupid\u003c\/em\u003e, directed with collaborator Erin Brubacher, premiered at Videofag in 2013 and went on to sold-out productions at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre and New York City’s The Kitchen in 2015. Liminal is being made into a feature length art film by the NFB and the National Theatre in the UK.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGROUNDBREAKING LGBTQ ARTIST:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eFrom 2012-2016, in collaboration with William Ellis, Tannahill ran the alternative art space Videofag out of their home in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood. Over the four years of its operation, Videofag became an influential hub for queer and avant-garde work in Canada.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePUBLICATION TIE-IN WITH HIS NEW PLAY, \u003cem\u003eDECLARATIONS\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eLiminal, which is an expansion of his play Declarations, published to coincide with the play’s premiere at CanStage in January 2018. Tannahill published two other works in Fall 2017: \u003cem\u003eThe Videofag Book\u003c\/em\u003e (BookThug), an anthology of essays, photographs, play-texts, and ruminations about the space; and his latest play, \u003cem\u003eDeclarations\u003c\/em\u003e (Coach House Books).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Tannahill is a good writer, a natural storyteller with a strong sense of narrative rhythm as well as the ability to launch into almost mystical flights of poetic vision.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Authors such as Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, among others, are showing their exhaustion with plot, opting to be candid, probing, philosophical, and discursive at a micro-level on the page. Toronto playwright Jordan Tannahill’s lushly intelligent debut novel, Liminal, is an exciting addition to this school . . . Liminal captures something illuminating and undefinable about the present moment . . . A real jaw-dropping intellectual feat . . . A rich and unusual story.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"From award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill comes a masterful novel in the tradition of Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"A 49th Shelf Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2018-01-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"From award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill comes a masterful novel in the tradition of Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Liminal
From award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill comes a masterful novel in the tradition of Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be.
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The Biggest Puddle in the World
Sarah and Charlie hunt down the biggest puddle in the world with their grandfather in this fun introduction to the water cycle, perfect for young readers.
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades K
to 2
Gargantua (Jr!)
Before Gargantua Junior was born, Mom had a reputation for being a little wild. Now Junior wants to help her repair damage and protect the Earth!
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She has written and illustrated the highly acclaimed picture books \u003cem\u003eBlurp’s Book of Manners\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTwo Many Birds\u003c\/em\u003e (Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year) and \u003cem\u003eHow to Walk an Ant\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work has received international recognition from France, Brazil and Japan. Cindy lives with her family in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Illustrated by","Contributor_0":"Bramer, Shannon (CA)","Contributor_1":"Derby, Cindy","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA splendidly illustrated collection of poems inspired by young children that address common themes such as having a hard day at school, feeling shy or being a newcomer. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eClimbing Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e were inspired by a class of kindergarten children whom poet and playwright Shannon Bramer came to know over the course of a school year. She set out to write a poem for each child, sharing her love of poetry with them, and made an anthology of the poems for Valentine’s Day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis original collection reflects the children’s joys and sorrows, worries and fears, moods and sense of humor. Some poems address common themes such as having a hard day at school, feeling shy or being a newcomer, while others explore subjects of fascination — bats, spiders, skeletons, octopuses, polka dots, racing cars and birthday parties. Evident throughout the book is a love of words and language and the idea that there are all kinds of poems and that they are for everyone — to read or write.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCindy Derby’s dreamy watercolor illustrations gently complement each poem. Beautiful, thoughtful, sensitive and funny, this is an exceptional collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Text Features\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eillustrations\u003cbr \/\u003etable of contents\u003cbr \/\u003eauthor’s note\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.1\u003cbr \/\u003eWith prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.4\u003cbr \/\u003eAsk and answer questions about unknown words in a text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.7\u003cbr \/\u003eWith prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.4\u003cbr \/\u003eIdentify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.4\u003cbr \/\u003eDescribe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781773063133","Height":"9.75","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Groundwood Books","KeyTextFeatures":"illustrations;table of contents;author's note","MetaKeywords":"NCTE Notable Poetry Book and Verse Novel; picture book; illustrations; table of contents; author's note","NumberOfPages":"44","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eShannon Bramer is a published poet and playwright. Her poems for children are fresh, original and beautifully written.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCindy Derby is a rising star in the world of children’s book illustration. Her debut picture book, \u003cem\u003eHow to Walk an Ant\u003c\/em\u003e, will be published in April 2019 by Roaring Brook Press.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe are publishing \u003cem\u003eClimbing Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e in March 2019, so that it will be available well in advance of National Poetry Month in April.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis is a wonderful introduction to poetry for young children. Shannon is keen to write a teacher’s guide for the book, providing educators with ideas for ways to engage children with poetry.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere is strong interest among educators in encouraging children to read poetry. The National Book Foundation recently announced that the winner of the 2018 Innovations in Reading Prize is the Academy of American Poets “Teach This Poem” program.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCurriculum connections include language arts \/ poetry, reading, creative writing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eShannon Bramer is a published poet and playwright. Her poems for children are fresh, original and beautifully written.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCindy Derby is a rising star in the world of children’s book illustration. 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The works carry notes of wistfulness and wonder, astute observations, and poignant reflections on one’s place in the world.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“[A] marvelous introduction to poetry for young children.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCM Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"CM Reviews","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A collection of poems inspired by young children that address common themes such as having a hard day at school, feeling shy or being a newcomer.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"Rocky Mountain Book Award","PrizeName_1":"NCTE Notable Poetry Book and Verse Novel","PrizeYear_0":"2021","PrizeYear_1":"2020","ProductFormDescription":"Kindle, Fixed Layout","PublicationDate":"2019-03-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"A collection of poems inspired by young children that address common themes such as having a hard day at school, feeling shy or being a newcomer.","Subtitle":"Poems for Children","teachersguide_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781773063133\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=teachersguide\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Width":"8.125","WidthCode":"in"}
ages 6
and up
/ grades K
and up
Climbing Shadows
A collection of poems inspired by young children that address common themes such as having a hard day at school, feeling shy or being a newcomer.
