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Forever Truffle
A new graphic novel from Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, co-creators of Jane, the Fox and Me and Louis Undercover.
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A Pillow Book
A Pillow Book offers a modern response to a thousand-year-old Japanese genre which resists, while slyly absorbing, all attempts to define it.
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The Private Apartments
Moving linked stories about the determination of Somali immigrants — despite duty, discrimination, and an ever-dissolving link to a war-torn homeland.
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The Malaise of Modernity
In his 1991 CBC Massey Lectures, philosopher Charles Taylor elucidates the modern concept of self-fulfilment.
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From the author of the award-winning The Sisters Brothers comes a dark, boozy, and hilarious tale from the LA underworld.
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If Venice Dies
This eloquent book by the internationally renowned art historian Salvatore considers a new debate about Venice.
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In these stories, Latin American women scramble with courage and stamina to persevere in the face of violence, illegal incarceration, abandonment, migration, solitude, and ruptured relationships. Bátiz’s prose is raw, honest, and immediate. To appreciate its beauty, one has only to take in the opening sentence to the story ‘Uncle Ko’s One Thousand Lives’: ‘When no one expected his return anymore, when almost everyone believed he must be dead, he appeared out of nowhere at our door.’\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes, The Illegal, and Beatrice and Croc Harry","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eProfoundly moving and beautifully written, Martha Bátiz’s \u003cem \u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e spans different countries and timelines but always circles back to keen observances of the human experience. 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The power of these stories comes from the writer’s understanding of the politics of exploitation and her refusal to look away.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Rosemary Sullivan, author of Stalin's Daughter and The Betrayal of Anne Frank","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautifully written, masterfully crafted collection that explores the trauma of loss. Its vivid characters stayed with me long after I finished the book.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Marina Nemat, author of Prisoner of Tehran and After Tehran","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eBrimming with unforgettable characters who find themselves in unimaginable circumstances \u003cem \u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e shines with brilliance and will leave you breathless. Bátiz’s prose sparkles against the dark background of heartbreaking choices and harsh realities, and lights up the senses. This book is meant to be read slowly and savoured.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Christina Kilbourne, author of Safe Harbour and The Limitless Sky","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem \u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e, Martha Bátiz travels across countries and cultures with confidence, humour, and an ear for the musicality of language. Her stories, both beautiful and terrifying, deal with loss, depression, injustice, and the need to love and be loved. A refreshing collection written by an author in full control of her literary style.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Pura López-Colomé, author of Speaking in Song and Borrosa Imago Mundi","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eA Mexican Canadian author, Bátiz is an authentic voice telling nuanced and layered Hispanic stories filled with multidimensional characters.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eHer stories shine a light on crises such as the plight of migrant children along the Mexico–U.S. border, the tragedy of the disappeared in Mexico and Argentina, and generalized racial and domestic violence.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eThis incisive and evocative collection of stories feature strong and resilient women faced with violence, disappearance and tragedies that all too often remain unseen.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Ms. Magazine","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Ms. Magazine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new collection of hard-hitting and intimate stories by award-winning Mexican Canadian author Martha Bátiz.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2022-05-03","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A new collection of hard-hitting and intimate stories by award-winning Mexican Canadian author Martha Bátiz.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
No Stars in the Sky
A new collection of hard-hitting and intimate stories by award-winning Mexican Canadian author Martha Bátiz.
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He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1950, to the American Philosophical Society in 1958, and in 1963–64 he was a Guggenheim Fellow, spending the year at Cambridge University. He also received honorary degrees from the University of Berne, Yale University, Wesleyan University, New York University, McGill University, Clark University, and Amherst College. Wald spoke out on many political and social issues, and his fame as a Nobel laureate brought national and international attention to his views. He was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War and the nuclear arms race. 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In 1966, \u003cem\u003eTIME\u003c\/em\u003e magazine listed him in a cover story as “one of the ten best teachers in the country.” Wald’s long career of research on vision culminated in his discovery of how Vitamin A works in the retina, leading to the understanding of the chemical basis of vision, for which he shared the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1950, to the American Philosophical Society in 1958, and in 1963–64 he was a Guggenheim Fellow, spending the year at Cambridge University. He also received honorary degrees from the University of Berne, Yale University, Wesleyan University, New York University, McGill University, Clark University, and Amherst College. Wald spoke out on many political and social issues, and his fame as a Nobel laureate brought national and international attention to his views. He was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War and the nuclear arms race. In 1997, Wald died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of ninety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLEWIS AUERBACH\u003c\/strong\u003e was the producer CBC \u003cem\u003eIdeas\u003c\/em\u003e 1967 to 1971. He later worked at TV Ontario, the Science Council of Canada, the CRTC, the Auditor General of Canada, and as a private consultant. As a volunteer he was Board Chair at Tamir, which provides housing in Ottawa for the mentally challenged; at Options Bytown, which provides supportive housing for otherwise homeless, and the Harvard Club of Ottawa. He also has served on the Boards of the Great Canadian Theatre Company, the Hospice at Maycourt, and Oxfam. Currently he sits on the Board of the Forum for Research and Policy in Communications and the Harvard Alumni Association. 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He has an interdisciplinary PhD in ethnomusicology and sociolinguistics, has taught at UCLA and Boston College, has won numerous awards including a 2002 Grammy, and currently performs in a duo with his wife, clarinetist Sandrine Sheon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Introduction by","ContributorRole_2":"Foreword by","Contributor_0":"Wald, George","Contributor_1":"Auerbach, Lewis (CA)","Contributor_2":"Wald, Elijah","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis recently discovered and very timely 1970 Massey Lectures by Nobel Prize-winning scientist George Wald, now in print for the first time ever.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere did we come from, who are we, and what is to become of us — these questions have never been more urgent. Then, as now, the world is facing major political and social upheaval, from overpopulation to nuclear warfare to environmental degradation and the uses and abuses of technology. 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The Massey Lectures airs on three select U.S. stations: KUOW Seattle, WBEZ Chicago, MPBN Maine.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eTherefore Choose Life will be available on NetGalley and Edelweiss.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne with the Universe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll men, everywhere, have asked the same questions: Whence we come, what kind of thing we are, and at least some intimation of what may become of us. Seeking answers to these questions, men have followed many paths. I hope I may be forgiven for believing that science offers perhaps the surest of those paths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe have special need now for answers to those questions. Our society is adrift. We are in a crisis of conviction, of mission, of commitment — a kind of worldwide identity crisis. Indeed, technology having obliterated distance, man needs more than ever before to become a community. Unless we can achieve some commonly accepted sense of human needs and goals, we’re lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, that is the kind of thing I shall be talking about. I shall be asking the question: From what base can a scientist, dealing as a scientist, make moral and political judgements? I would like to examine that base — my base. Perhaps it can become yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat I am looking for is some sort of context that can serve as a guide to decision and action. In a sense, this is my religion — the entirely secular religion of one scientist. It contains no supernatural elements. Nature is enough for me — enough of awe, enough of beauty, enough of reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI would like to begin by sorting out some basic ideas. We need to know what we are talking about. Man has been engaged, ever since we have known him, in an unending struggle to know. I think that is epitomized in science — science is an attempt to understand all reality. Reality covers a very broad province — not only such relatively simple things as stones falling and the structures of atomic nuclei, but much more complicated things such as poets writing sonnets, people weeping, people praying. I think that some of those more complicated things science will never understand; but we’ll keep on trying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe point of the whole enterprise is to achieve understanding. Facts are only the raw material of science. Some time ago I read for the first time (though not the last) Herman Hesse’s book Siddhartha, and I came out of that first reading with a wonderful sentence: “One can gain knowledge from words, but wisdom only from things.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI think that’s what science is about: it’s a deep-seated attempt to extract the wisdom from things. As such, as that deep and consistent attempt to understand reality, science is altogether good (as our culture interprets “the good”) — there can be no such thing as bad science. Any other view would be a plea for ignorance, and there can be no possible quarrel with science that ignorance can improve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is another entirely different enterprise: the application of science to useful ends — technology. I have just finished saying that science is altogether good, but I would never dream of saying that about technology!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTechnology is for use, and in any properly conducted society, every enterprise in technology, new and old, should be under constant review and judgement in terms of the needs and goals and aspirations of that society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the troubles with our present society is that we tend to regard all technology, without question, as progress — sometimes the more unpleasant aspects of technology as aspects of fate. But that’s altogether wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e One needs to ask: Should one do everything one can? All too often the answer one is given is, Why, yes! Of course, one does everything one can — one travels as far and as rapidly, and makes as big a bomb as one can, and all those other things, as soon as one becomes able to. But the proper answer is: Of course not! Among all those things that can be done, a decision needs to be made as to which to do and which not to do, and that in terms of our essential human social needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho is to make those decisions? Well, another trouble with our present society is that those decisions are being made almost entirely by the producers of technology — by those who see in that technology opportunities for wealth, or power, or status. One should listen to all that such interest parties have to say. But then that final decision should be made quite otherwise. That final decision should be made not by the producers of technology, but by those who will have to live with the products.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, I think the position is this: Know all you can, but do only what seems socially useful and beneficial to do.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis never before published found Massey Lecture will be released in paperback to complete the series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe subjects he touches upon are even more urgent and timely today — overpopulation, nuclear arms, the environment have progressed further into the twenty-first century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeorge Wald is a Nobel Prize–winning biologist, and a well-known, popular Harvard professor, who was featured in TIME magazine as “one of the ten best teachers in the country”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWald was also a political and social activist, and spoke out against the war in Vietnam and the nuclear arms race\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA rebroadcast of this lecture is planned for mid-October 2017. 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Therefore Choose Life
The 1970 CBC Massey Lecture by Nobel Prize-winning scientist George Wald examines where we came from, who we are, and what is to become of us.
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{"id":6813801807931,"title":"The Enchanted Life","handle":"the-enchanted-life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTaking as her starting point the inspiration and wisdom that can be derived from myth, fairy tales, and folk culture, Dr. Sharon Blackie offers a set of practical and grounded tools for enchanting our lives and the places we live, so leading to a greater sense of meaning and of belonging to the world. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnchantment\u003c\/i\u003e. By Dr. Blackie’s definition, a vivid sense of belongingness to a rich and many-layered world, a profound and whole-hearted participation in the adventure of life. Enchantment is a natural, spontaneous human tendency — one we possess as children, but lose, through social and cultural pressures, as we grow older. It is an attitude of mind which can be cultivated: the enchanted life is possible for anyone. 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By Dr. Blackie’s definition, a vivid sense of belongingness to a rich and many-layered world, a profound and whole-hearted participation in the adventure of life. Enchantment is a natural, spontaneous human tendency — one we possess as children, but lose, through social and cultural pressures, as we grow older. It is an attitude of mind which can be cultivated: the enchanted life is possible for anyone. It is intuitive, embraces wonder, and fully engages the mythic imagination — but it is also deeply embodied in ecology, grounded in place and community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo live this way is to be challenged, to be awakened, to be gripped and shaken to the core by the extraordinary which lies at the heart of the ordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Readers are encouraged to take action to live a life that is enchanted — filled with creativity and play and meaning and belonging. For me, it’s exactly the kind of book that my soul is searching for — one that digs deep, prods, and turns over the self-limiting beliefs that hold me back. Complex, intelligent, and thought-provoking, this is for seekers of authenticity and purpose.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eMonique Mulligan, author of Wherever You Go\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Monique Mulligan, author of Wherever You Go","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIT’S TIME TO RECONNECT TO THE WORLD AROUND US:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e‘Life Satisfaction’ scores in many wealthy countries are surprisingly low, averaging just 5.7 on a scale from 0 to 10 in OECD countries. We’re yearning for meaning, for ways to feel at home in the world. 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The Enchanted Life
A set of practical and grounded tools for enchanting our lives and the places we live, leading to a greater sense of meaning and belonging.
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She is the author of six collections of poetry and the recipient of all New Zealand’s major literary awards. Camp is also an essayist, a memoirist, and a literary commentator, known for \u003cem\u003eKate’s Klassics\u003c\\\/em\u003e, a nationally syndicated radio program on classic literature that has been running on Radio New Zealand for twenty years. Camp’s work has appeared in many journals at home and internationally, including \u003cem\u003eLandfall\u003c\\\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSport\u003c\\\/em\u003e (New Zealand), \u003cem\u003eHEAT\u003c\\\/em\u003e (Australia), \u003cem\u003eBrick\u003c\\\/em\u003e (Canada), \u003cem\u003eArc Poetry Magazine\u003c\\\/em\u003e (Canada), \u003cem\u003eAkzente\u003c\\\/em\u003e (Germany), \u003cem\u003eQualm\u003c\\\/em\u003e (England), and \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\\\/em\u003e (U.S.). 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Incorporating a grouping of new, previously unpublished work and a selection of important poems from her six earlier collections, this volume introduces North American readers to poetry that has been described by critics as “fearless,” “mesmerizing,” and “containing a surprising radicalism and power.”\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCamp’s work is recognized for its wide-ranging and eclectic subject matter, its technical control, and its musicality, with pop culture, high culture, the domestic confessional, close observation, and found language featured as recurring elements of style.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA timely retrospective that represents a new chapter in Camp’s career, \u003ci\u003eHow to Be Happy Though Human\u003c\\\/i\u003e promises to gain a wide readership for this thoughtful, engaging, and popular writer.\u003c\\\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487009076","excerpt_0":"https:\\\/\\\/biblioshare.org\\\/BNCservices\\\/BNCServices.asmx\\\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487009076\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"Karen Solie; accessible poetry; mid-career poet; post covid reading; Dearly; Atwood; Jacinda Ardern; Mary Oliver; taika waititi; Eleanor Catton; Rupi Kaur; Lang Leav; Nayyirah Waheed; Patricia Lockwood; Yrsa Daley-Ward; poem of the day; north american debut; Jericho Brown; gift book; John Ashbery; Robert Hass; contemporary poetry; world literature; Fiona Apple; Olivia Gatwood; Life of the Party; Depression and Other Magic Tricks; Billy Ray Belcourt; gifts for mom; poetry month","NumberOfPages":"176","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTRODUCING AN INTERNATIONAL POETRY SENSATION:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eKate Camp has been much revered in New Zealand since her debut collection was published over twenty years ago, and has subsequently won all of the country’s major literary awards for poetry. She is highly respected and cited as an influence for up-and-coming poets worldwide. the publication of \u003cem\u003eHow to Be Happy Though Human\u003c\\\/em\u003e represents a career milestone as the first collection of her poetry to be published outside of NZ. It also represents the opportunity for a new and greater readership in North America to discover her unforgettable work and signals an exciting new direction in Anansi’s poetry program — a mandate to bring the best voices in international poetry to readers in North America. In NZ, Camp is published by Victoria University Press, the country’s preeminent independent literary publisher, who brought us acclaimed titles such as \u003cem\u003eThe Luminaries\u003c\\\/em\u003e by Eleanor Catton and \u003cem\u003eCan You Tolerate This?\u003c\\\/em\u003e by Ashleigh Young.\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MULTIDISCIPLINARY AUTHOR:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eNot only is Camp an acclaimed and respected poet working at the height of her craft, but she is also an excellent and accomplished memoirist, essayist, and host of a nationally syndicated radio program, in which she offers commentary on classic literature. In 2016, she was the recipient of the prestigious Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship (one of New Zealand’s foremost literary awards) and in 2017 travelled to Menton, France for seven months to work on developing a new prose project. Her work in the memoir and essay form often traverses extremely personal themes, including infertility and addiction.\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCITING, ECLECTIC POETICS:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eCamp’s poetry has been praised for its wide-ranging, culturally attuned, and eclectic subject matter, often drawing from popular culture and diverse fields of reference such as medicine, anthropology, economy, and literature. Another hallmark of her poetics is an irresistible and powerful blend of humour and seriousness that makes her work engaging and accessible.\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Night Sky On Any Day In History\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \\\/\u003e\u003cbr \\\/\u003eI want you to look into an oncoming night.\u003cbr \\\/\u003eIs it a little green? Does it have the cool orange\u003cbr \\\/\u003ebeginnings of a streetlight? Tip your head back\u003cbr \\\/\u003eas someone with a nosebleed might.\u003cbr \\\/\u003eSurvey the lower sky. Are there chimneys\u003cbr \\\/\u003emaking mini city silhouettes? Satellite dishes,\u003cbr \\\/\u003etheir smooth, grey craters turned in one direction?\u003cbr \\\/\u003e\u003cbr \\\/\u003eYou might insist you hear a nightingale.\u003cbr \\\/\u003eMight see, at a distance, the huge screen\u003cbr \\\/\u003eadvertising an upcoming concert by the Beach Boys.\u003cbr \\\/\u003eYou could spend your time watching trains pull\u003cbr \\\/\u003etheir strings of yellow windows along in lines.\u003cbr \\\/\u003e\u003cbr \\\/\u003eOr you might come here, where I am,\u003cbr \\\/\u003ewhere I stand upon the rarely silent floor\u003cbr \\\/\u003elooking up at the rectangle moon\u003cbr \\\/\u003eof our neighbour's window.\u003c\\\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"How to Be Happy Though Human introduces New Zealand’s Kate Camp’s eclectic and musical poetry to international audiences for the first time.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2020-09-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"How to Be Happy Though Human introduces New Zealand’s Kate Camp’s eclectic and musical poetry to international audiences for the first time.","Subtitle":"New and Selected Poems","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
How to Be Happy Though Human
How to Be Happy Though Human introduces New Zealand’s Kate Camp’s eclectic and musical poetry to international audiences for the first time.
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Pigeon
Karen Solie's poems are X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions, explorations of violence, bad luck, fate, and creeping catastrophe.
