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The Wren
In The Wren, A.F. Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts.
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{"id":7425230340155,"title":"Inheritance","handle":"inheritance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Korean Canadian woman returns to the prairies, where she revisits her childhood and confronts her haunting guilt.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnne Kim is a New York lawyer whose success is built on forgetting the past. When her father dies and she returns to Edmonton for the funeral, she is shocked to discover that he was from North Korea and that he left his brother behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Anne reads the undelivered letters her father wrote to his brother about life in Canada, she is transported back to her childhood during the 1980s and 90s. She recalls the struggles her parents faced as immigrants who ran a grocery store in a rural prairie town. 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His rebellion created a rift that culminated in a devastating act, irrevocably shattering the family and leaving Anne overwhelmed by inescapable guilt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInheritance\u003c\/em\u003e explores the immigrant experience, the sacrifices made by both parents and children, and the way trauma is transferred to the next generation. As Anne completes her journey to the past, she emerges to finally define life on her own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Inheritance
A Korean Canadian woman returns to the prairies, where she revisits her childhood and confronts a haunting guilt.
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{"id":7425228406843,"title":"Definitely Thriving","handle":"definitely-thriving","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe heartening and hilarious story of a woman who doesn’t have it all figured out just yet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter accidentally-on-purpose exploding her listless marriage by being discovered in bed with the next-door neighbours, Clemence Lathbury returns to her hometown resolved to build a life for herself that is good and substantial, to become the kind of sensible woman who won’t be distracted by frippery and romance. It’s supposed to be \u003cem\u003eEat, Pray, Love\u003c\/em\u003e, without the love part. But no woman is an island, and soon Clemence finds herself embroiled in neighbourhood drama; beginning a crusade at the local bookshop; becoming adopted by a well-groomed, one-eyed cat; and being forced to admit her attraction to two very different men—each a romantic lead in his own right. But how to choose? 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A Love Affair with the Unknown
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{"id":7349201043515,"title":"Not That Kind of Place","handle":"not-that-kind-of-place","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn May 1997, eighteen-year-old Laura McPherson left her house for a run and didn’t return …\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty years later, a reporter arrives in the small town of Griffiths to write an article about the unsolved murder of Laura McPherson. He is the most recent in a long line of journalists, podcasters, and amateur sleuths seeking new insights into what really happened to Laura.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaura’s younger brother, David, a repressed and stuck thirty-something, is dealing with the recent death of his mother when the reporter comes knocking. The last surviving family member, David has lived a sheltered life, protected from the prying eyes of the media by his mother. But David cannot escape the past forever, and soon finds himself confronting the lasting impact of his sister’s death. As David learns more about his sister and the history of Griffiths, his eyes are opened to the casual violence, misogyny, and racism that lurk just below the surface of his seemingly placid community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvocative and haunting, \u003cem\u003eNot That Kind of Place\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary anti-mystery, a compelling exploration of our obsession with true-crime stories and the devastating effects of systemic violence on our most vulnerable populations.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-02-21T10:39:30-05:00","created_at":"2025-02-21T10:35:22-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Starred Reviews","By (author) Melgaard Michael","House of Anansi Press","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2023-08-29","Thrillers \u0026 Mystery"],"price":2299,"price_min":2299,"price_max":2299,"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":42025521119291,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011178","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Not That Kind of Place - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":376,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487011178","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_40b80ee6-5ffe-4cb0-858b-c8dfdc5f85a9.jpg?v=1740152136"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_40b80ee6-5ffe-4cb0-858b-c8dfdc5f85a9.jpg?v=1740152136","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":25137218846779,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_40b80ee6-5ffe-4cb0-858b-c8dfdc5f85a9.jpg?v=1740152136"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_40b80ee6-5ffe-4cb0-858b-c8dfdc5f85a9.jpg?v=1740152136","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn May 1997, eighteen-year-old Laura McPherson left her house for a run and didn’t return …\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty years later, a reporter arrives in the small town of Griffiths to write an article about the unsolved murder of Laura McPherson. He is the most recent in a long line of journalists, podcasters, and amateur sleuths seeking new insights into what really happened to Laura.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaura’s younger brother, David, a repressed and stuck thirty-something, is dealing with the recent death of his mother when the reporter comes knocking. The last surviving family member, David has lived a sheltered life, protected from the prying eyes of the media by his mother. But David cannot escape the past forever, and soon finds himself confronting the lasting impact of his sister’s death. As David learns more about his sister and the history of Griffiths, his eyes are opened to the casual violence, misogyny, and racism that lurk just below the surface of his seemingly placid community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvocative and haunting, \u003cem\u003eNot That Kind of Place\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary anti-mystery, a compelling exploration of our obsession with true-crime stories and the devastating effects of systemic violence on our most vulnerable populations.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Not That Kind of Place
A rising literary star delivers a haunting exploration of the long-term effects of systemic violence.
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{"id":7349185216571,"title":"The Elements","handle":"the-elements","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe new collection from Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet and translator Erín Moure is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destruction. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Elements\u003c\/i\u003e is a family book, a thinker’s biography in poetry, and a polylingual homage. Poems about and for Moure’s late father — accepting his dementia as a real way of thinking “world” and “self” in a struggle against invasive powers — are braced alongside poems invoking the struggle of Galician peasants against the invasion of the armies of Napoleon. It is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destructions. By celebrating our ability to think and to revolt, it defends the human pull toward happiness and sovereignty, toward life, toward living. “The infinitely transmissible,” it says, “demands this polyvalent body.”\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-02-21T10:04:36-05:00","created_at":"2025-02-21T09:58:33-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Moure Erín","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2019-04-09"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"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":42025479176251,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003722","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Elements - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487003722","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_854a08b2-d04e-41ab-9e03-bf213fa438e6.jpg?v=1740149935"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_854a08b2-d04e-41ab-9e03-bf213fa438e6.jpg?v=1740149935","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"This image is in shades of black and white. A statue on a cliff looks out over the ruins of an old city. The statue resembles a man with short curly hair. It has one arm out and is has a draped cloak around it. The ruins of the city are mainly rubble and stone walls with window openings. The buildings are densely packed together. Text: Erín Moure. The Elements. (Nam:Loz).","id":25137104126011,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_854a08b2-d04e-41ab-9e03-bf213fa438e6.jpg?v=1740149935"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_854a08b2-d04e-41ab-9e03-bf213fa438e6.jpg?v=1740149935","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe new collection from Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet and translator Erín Moure is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destruction. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Elements\u003c\/i\u003e is a family book, a thinker’s biography in poetry, and a polylingual homage. Poems about and for Moure’s late father — accepting his dementia as a real way of thinking “world” and “self” in a struggle against invasive powers — are braced alongside poems invoking the struggle of Galician peasants against the invasion of the armies of Napoleon. It is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destructions. By celebrating our ability to think and to revolt, it defends the human pull toward happiness and sovereignty, toward life, toward living. “The infinitely transmissible,” it says, “demands this polyvalent body.”\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Elements
Award winning poet and translator Erín Moure's collection is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destruction.
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{"id":7349185085499,"title":"Dunk Tank","handle":"dunk-tank","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe much-anticipated second collection from Gerald Lampert Memorial Award–winning poet Kayla Czaga, \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank \u003c\/i\u003eis a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the title poem of Kayla Czaga’s sophomore collection, a teenage speaker is suspended between knowledge and experience, confidently hovering before the world plunges her into adult life. \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines the body as a strange and unknowable landscape: full of cancers that “burst like blackberries,” a butt that could run for prime minister of Canada, and the underworld lurking in Winona Ryder’s pores. Clouds become testicles and uteri turn into goldfish, flickering and fragile, but still ultimately glowing. These poems explore the varied and strange relationships that underpin a young woman’s coming of age, from inconsequential boyfriends to the friendships that rescue us from “grey daily moments.” Unsure of how the world works and her part in it, Czaga forges a landscape of metaphor and gleaming, dense imagery. \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/i\u003e is playful and dark, comic and disturbing.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-02-21T10:04:22-05:00","created_at":"2025-02-21T09:58:21-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult LGBTQ+","Adult Poetry","By (author) Czaga Kayla","Feminist Reads","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2019-04-09"],"price":1999,"price_min":1999,"price_max":1999,"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":42025479012411,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487005962","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Dunk Tank - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1999,"weight":180,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487005962","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f8e23e41-ce88-46d7-b0dc-bb1660543649.jpg?v=1740149919"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f8e23e41-ce88-46d7-b0dc-bb1660543649.jpg?v=1740149919","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"This image is in shades of black and white. Six women hang upside down by their knees from a set of monkey bars. They each wear the same uniform of white shorts with a dark stripe and buttons down the side and a white short-sleeved sweater with a thick dark stripe across the chest. Each woman dangles their arms toward the ground. They all have light skin tone and dark hair. Text: Dunk Tank. Kayla Czaga.","id":25137103503419,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f8e23e41-ce88-46d7-b0dc-bb1660543649.jpg?v=1740149919"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f8e23e41-ce88-46d7-b0dc-bb1660543649.jpg?v=1740149919","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe much-anticipated second collection from Gerald Lampert Memorial Award–winning poet Kayla Czaga, \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank \u003c\/i\u003eis a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the title poem of Kayla Czaga’s sophomore collection, a teenage speaker is suspended between knowledge and experience, confidently hovering before the world plunges her into adult life. \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines the body as a strange and unknowable landscape: full of cancers that “burst like blackberries,” a butt that could run for prime minister of Canada, and the underworld lurking in Winona Ryder’s pores. Clouds become testicles and uteri turn into goldfish, flickering and fragile, but still ultimately glowing. These poems explore the varied and strange relationships that underpin a young woman’s coming of age, from inconsequential boyfriends to the friendships that rescue us from “grey daily moments.” Unsure of how the world works and her part in it, Czaga forges a landscape of metaphor and gleaming, dense imagery. \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/i\u003e is playful and dark, comic and disturbing.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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She lives with her wife on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen people, also known as the Esquimalt and Songhees nations (Victoria BC).\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Czaga, Kayla (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe much-anticipated second collection from Gerald Lampert Memorial Award–winning poet Kayla Czaga, \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank \u003c\/i\u003eis a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the title poem of Kayla Czaga’s sophomore collection, a teenage speaker is suspended between knowledge and experience, confidently hovering before the world plunges her into adult life. \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines the body as a strange and unknowable landscape: full of cancers that “burst like blackberries,” a butt that could run for prime minister of Canada, and the underworld lurking in Winona Ryder’s pores. 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The poems in Dunk Tank are as immediate, honest, affectionate, raw, anxious, jokey, and thoughtful as an impromptu confession over an evening’s confab. Sparkling with recollection’s rich details, associative leaps, colloquial doses of energy and imaginative reach, Dunk Tank is exhilarating.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"David O’Meara, author of A Pretty Sight","OtherText_Accolades_1":"What a profound, effortless spell Kayla Czaga conjures with this collection. In communion with an array of private and public selves, these poems convince me authentic connection is possible. Desirous and impulsive, problematic as any one of us, the speaker never exempts herself from the world she tallies in tacos, panties, inherited stress, taps on Instagram posts, seagulls heaped like Kleenex. When she confesses ‘it felt \/ like we could say and finally mean \/ something,’ I’m enlivened, senses heightened, as if my name is being called by someone who never calls me by my name.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Sheryda Warrener, author of Floating Is Everything","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCITING EMERGING POET:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eKayla Czaga’s first collection, \u003cem\u003eFor Your Safety Please Hold On\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her poems have since received major acclaim. At the release of only her second collection, Kayla Czaga is already an exciting rising star.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAWARDS BUZZ:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eSeveral poems from her debut collection have received awards attention, including: \u003cem\u003eFiddlehead\u003c\/em\u003e’s Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize; \u003cem\u003eMalahat Review\u003c\/em\u003e’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry; and an Editor’s Choice Award in \u003cem\u003eARC Poetry Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e’s Poem of the Year Contest. Poems from \u003cem\u003eFor Your Safety Please Hold On\u003c\/em\u003e have also been shortlisted for the New Quarterly’s Occasional Verse Contest; longlisted for CBC’s Canada Writes Poetry Contest; and appeared in literary publications across North America.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLGBTQ+ THEMES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eKayla’s poetry speaks to both LGBTQ+ and cis-hetero audiences through its themes of sexual coming of age.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“These poems of love, service-industry jobs, and small-town boredom . . . buzz with fierce restlessness and longing.” — \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“Dunk Tank trades in specificity, intimacy, weirdness, colloquialism, and dark humour.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Czaga manages to capture moments of maturation with the wisdom of a backward glance . . . Approachable and skillful in its poetics and narrative detail.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill and Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“The author is always inventive in her metaphors and images … All in all Dunk Tank is smart and heartfelt.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWalleye\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Walleye","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Reading Kayla Czaga’s Dunk Tank is like taking a ride in a hot-wired car from Kitimat, seeing how far it will take you … Czaga creates order from disparate-seeming imagery with an intuitive knack for repetition … Good poetry resonates on different levels, leaves you thinking about your own life for some time beyond. And in this regard Czaga’s poems leave you laugh-crying and changed.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrmsby Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Ormsby Review","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Dunk Tank is a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"02","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize","PrizeName_1":"A CBC Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-04-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Dunk Tank is a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Dunk Tank
Dunk Tank is a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life.
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{"id":7348971274299,"title":"Sequence","handle":"sequence","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe latest collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet A. F. Moritz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e, the reader accompanies the poet step after step and breath after breath through a haunting and mercurial world that shimmers like sun on sand. Alternating moments of spare clarity with deep narrative flashes, the poem wanders the borders of the self, pursuing the eternal moment through imagined landscapes and the lush world waiting outside the writer's window. This is poetry of intense observation, finely tuned to a pattern that is sustained with breaks and returns, alive with eros and a hunger for Breton's \"convulsive beauty.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e dazzles as it seeks the great mystery, while remaining fully invested in our life of contingency and time.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-02-20T17:11:12-05:00","created_at":"2025-02-20T17:08:31-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Starred Reviews","By (author) Moritz A.F.","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2015-04-09"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"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":42024747302971,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898714","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Sequence - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":231,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770898714","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_31c221db-cc68-4e79-8d4e-7902dc3e3fc8.jpg?v=1740089336"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_31c221db-cc68-4e79-8d4e-7902dc3e3fc8.jpg?v=1740089336","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":25135685664827,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":638,"width":413,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_31c221db-cc68-4e79-8d4e-7902dc3e3fc8.jpg?v=1740089336"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":638,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_31c221db-cc68-4e79-8d4e-7902dc3e3fc8.jpg?v=1740089336","width":413}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe latest collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet A. F. Moritz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e, the reader accompanies the poet step after step and breath after breath through a haunting and mercurial world that shimmers like sun on sand. Alternating moments of spare clarity with deep narrative flashes, the poem wanders the borders of the self, pursuing the eternal moment through imagined landscapes and the lush world waiting outside the writer's window. This is poetry of intense observation, finely tuned to a pattern that is sustained with breaks and returns, alive with eros and a hunger for Breton's \"convulsive beauty.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e dazzles as it seeks the great mystery, while remaining fully invested in our life of contingency and time.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Sequence
A finely tuned collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet A. F. Moritz.
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Chaser
An exciting and provocative collection from one of the most promising young voices in Canadian poetry.
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The Blue Dragon
An evocative, beautifully illustrated tale of a Canadian expatriate in China from legendary theatre director and visionary Robert Lepage.
