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{"id":6814252433467,"title":"The Bush Garden","handle":"the-bush-garden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginally published in 1971,\u003ci\u003eThe Bush Garden \u003c\/i\u003efeatures Northrop Frye’s timeless essays on Canadian literature and painting, and an introduction by bestselling author Lisa Moore.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this cogent collection of essays written between 1943 and 1969, formidable literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye explores the Canadian imagination through the lens of the country’s artistic output: prose, poetry, and paintings. Frye offers insightful commentary on the works that shaped a “Canadian sensibility,” and includes a comprehensive survey of the landscape of Canadian poetry throughout the 1950s, including astute criticism of the work of E. J. 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She lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Introduction by","Contributor_0":"Frye, Northrop (CA)","Contributor_1":"Moore, Lisa (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginally published in 1971,\u003ci\u003eThe Bush Garden \u003c\/i\u003efeatures Northrop Frye’s timeless essays on Canadian literature and painting, and an introduction by bestselling author Lisa Moore.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this cogent collection of essays written between 1943 and 1969, formidable literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye explores the Canadian imagination through the lens of the country’s artistic output: prose, poetry, and paintings. Frye offers insightful commentary on the works that shaped a “Canadian sensibility,” and includes a comprehensive survey of the landscape of Canadian poetry throughout the 1950s, including astute criticism of the work of E. J. 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An environment turned outward towards the sea, like so much of Newfoundland, and one turned towards inland seas, like so much of the Maritimes, are an imaginative contrast: anyone who has been conditioned by one in his early years can hardly be conditioned by the other in the same way. Anyone brought up on the urban plain of Southern Ontario or the gentle pays farmland along the south shore of the St. Lawrence may become fascinated by the great sprawling wilderness of Northern Ontario or Ungava, may move their and live with its people and become accepted as one of them, but if he paints or writes about it he will paint or write as an imaginative foreigner. And what can there be in common between an imagination nurtured on the prairies, where it is a centre of consciousness diffusing itself over a vast flat expanse stretching to a remote horizon, and one nurtured in British Columbia, where it is in the midst of gigantic trees and mountains leaping into the sky all around it, and obliterating the horizon everywhere?\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Any publication by Northrop Frye is an important literary event; this one is of the highest importance to Canadian literature. Here Frye has collected all the essays he believes to be of permanent value on Canadian writing and painting. His tremendous intelligence and erudition is thus focused on a much smaller field of vision than it normally is. Tethered in its own backyard, as it were, this formidable creature can be observed more closely than it can be when it roams the far reaches of the literary world.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"Frye’s handiwork is equivalent to most everyone’s masterwork. Nor can I imagine a more perceptive book being written about the Canadian poetic imagination. Northrop Frye resembles nobody so much as a poet Midas — everything he touches turns into poetic metaphor.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"These reviews are still relevant, partly because Frye is such a good critic and partly because his reviews embraced such a wide range of poetry that, perhaps especially in retrospect, they provide a fascinating sense of process through which a literature develops . . . We can respond to the immediate perceptions of a subtle and literate critical mind.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Maclean’s","OtherText_Review_3":"Perhaps the most remarkable thing about The Bush Garden is that it reveals Northrop Frye as a practical critic. He does not try to fit everything he reads into preconceived theories, and the range of his sympathies is admirably wide. And he succeeds in demonstrating the importance for Canadian writers of their Canadian forebears.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"CBC Anthology","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Originally published by Anansi in 1971, this attractive A List edition features Northrop Frye’s timeless essays on literature and painting.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-08-26","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"A List","ShortDescription":"Originally published by Anansi in 1971, this attractive A List edition features Northrop Frye’s timeless essays on literature and painting.","Subtitle":"Essays on the Canadian Imagination","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Bush Garden
Originally published by Anansi in 1971, this attractive A List edition features Northrop Frye’s timeless essays on literature and painting.
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Reissued in a handsome A List edition, the largest collection of critical prose to date from world renowned author and poet Margaret Atwood.
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Not One of These Poems Is About You
From Teva Harrison, the award-winning author and illustrator of In-Between Days, comes a powerful work of poetry and art.
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Congratulations, Rhododendrons
In her debut collection, Congratulations, Rhododendrons, award-winning poet Mary Germaine offers love poems to an insistently unlovely world.
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Necessary Illusions
Noam Chomsky considers how a democratized media could give us more meaningful participation in social and political life.
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The Cult of Efficiency
Janice Gross Stein illuminates public education and universal health care, locally and globally, as flashpoints in the debate about their efficiency.
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The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories
The Hockey Sweater, the title story in this 20-story collection, has become an enduring Canadian classic.
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{"id":6812120318011,"title":"The Caiplie Caves","handle":"the-caiplie-caves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, T. S. Eliot Prize\u003cbr\u003e\nFinalist, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\nA CBC Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGriffin Poetry Prize winner Karen Solie’s new collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/em\u003e, interrogates violence, power, economies, self-delusion, and belief in poems that orbit the Caves of Caiplie on the coast of Scotland.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the seventh century, on the coast of Fife, Scotland, an Irish missionary named Ethernan withdrew to a cave in order to decide whether to establish a priory on May Island, directly opposite, in the Firth of Forth, or pursue a hermit’s solitude. 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The Caiplie Caves
The Caiplie Caves interrogates violence, economies, self-delusion, and belief in poems that orbit the Caves of Caiplie on the coast of Scotland.
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{"id":6817702608955,"title":"The Circle Game","handle":"the-circle-game","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs a part of the launch of the new A List series, a curated selection of titles from Anansi's backlist featuring handsome new covers and introductions by well-known writers, comes Margaret Atwood's Governor General's Literary Award–winning \u003cem\u003eThe Circle Game\u003c\/em\u003e, with an introduction by Suzanne Buffam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe appearance of Margaret Atwood's first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. The voice in these poems is as witty, vulnerable, direct, and incisive as we've come to know in later works, such as \u003cem\u003ePower Politics\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBodily Harm\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAlias Grace\u003c\/em\u003e. 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She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Innovator’s Award. She lives in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorBio_1":"Suzanne Buffam was born in Montreal, raised in Vancouver, and currently lives in Chicago. Her first collection of poetry, \u003cem\u003ePast Imperfect\u003c\/em\u003e, was named a Book of the Year by the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e and won the Gerald Lampert Award. Her second collection of poetry, \u003cem\u003eThe Irrationalist\u003c\/em\u003e, was named a finalist for the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in international anthologies and publications, including \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJubilat\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBooks in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBreathing Fire: Canada’s New Poets\u003c\/em\u003e; and has been translated into French, German, Spanish, and Slovenian. 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The Circle Game
A-List series edition of Margaret Atwood's Governor General's Award–winning The Circle Game, with an introduction by Suzanne Buffam.
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Basic Black with Pearls
In her search for a lover, Shirley sheds her drab existence together with torturous memories of guilt and loss as a Jewish immigrant in Toronto.
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No Pain Like This Body
The A List edition of Harold Sonny Ladoo’s enduring novel, a raw, unsentimental story of life in a small Caribbean community.
