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{"id":6582755950651,"title":"Prologue for the Age of Consequence special hardcover edition","handle":"prologue-for-the-age-of-consequence-special-hardcover-edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Garth Martens' collection Prologue for the Age of Consequence is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGarth Martens’ debut, \u003cem\u003ePrologue for the Age of Consequence\u003c\/em\u003e, is about the tar sands and industrial projects of Alberta, and the men who work in them. But to describe it as such restricts the book to its physical concerns, when in fact these are poems of great philosophical ambition, and startling ethical and psychological reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartens has made an elemental world both beautiful and severe, and on his stage, characters assume a collective status both emphatically human and radically mythic. He is interested in endurance, in addiction, loss, abuse, and pain, in how people are created, and how they create themselves, out of crude material both inherited, and scavenged. His language is rough and baroque; his metaphors are titanic in their range and scope. This is a book about grace and error, about hurtling towards the unknown, about acting out. Martens writes: \"It is dark when you reach the excavation and you don't know if the road starts or ends here. If it's abutment, chimera, hole.\" \u003cem\u003ePrologue for the Age of Consequence\u003c\/em\u003e accrues the propulsive force of an epic. It will pry you open, and reorder what it finds inside.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:13:50-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:13:50-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","By (author) Martens Garth","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2014-04-11"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403461312571,"title":"hardcover special edition","option1":"hardcover special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898103","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Prologue for the Age of Consequence special hardcover edition - hardcover special edition","public_title":"hardcover special edition","options":["hardcover special edition"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770898103","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c6b80c8d-202a-482f-9839-8f5c609b0aaa.jpg?v=1678595600"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c6b80c8d-202a-482f-9839-8f5c609b0aaa.jpg?v=1678595600","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324464283707,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":3653,"width":2922,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c6b80c8d-202a-482f-9839-8f5c609b0aaa.jpg?v=1678595600"},"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":3653,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c6b80c8d-202a-482f-9839-8f5c609b0aaa.jpg?v=1678595600","width":2922}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Garth Martens' collection Prologue for the Age of Consequence is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGarth Martens’ debut, \u003cem\u003ePrologue for the Age of Consequence\u003c\/em\u003e, is about the tar sands and industrial projects of Alberta, and the men who work in them. But to describe it as such restricts the book to its physical concerns, when in fact these are poems of great philosophical ambition, and startling ethical and psychological reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartens has made an elemental world both beautiful and severe, and on his stage, characters assume a collective status both emphatically human and radically mythic. He is interested in endurance, in addiction, loss, abuse, and pain, in how people are created, and how they create themselves, out of crude material both inherited, and scavenged. His language is rough and baroque; his metaphors are titanic in their range and scope. This is a book about grace and error, about hurtling towards the unknown, about acting out. Martens writes: \"It is dark when you reach the excavation and you don't know if the road starts or ends here. If it's abutment, chimera, hole.\" \u003cem\u003ePrologue for the Age of Consequence\u003c\/em\u003e accrues the propulsive force of an epic. It will pry you open, and reorder what it finds inside.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Garth Martens' collection Prologue for the Age of Consequence is limited to 50 copies.
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Dirty Feet
A compelling novel that tells the story of one man's journey to retrace the steps of the mysterious, nomadic father who abandoned him years earlier.
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{"id":6811320909883,"title":"The Family Clause","handle":"the-family-clause","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA grandfather who lives abroad returns home to Sweden to visit his adult children. His son is a failure. His daughter is having a baby with the wrong man. Only the grandfather himself is perfect — in his own eyes, at least.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of ten intense days, relationships unfold and painful memories resurface. The grandfather confronts his past. The daughter faces an impossible choice. The son tries to write himself free. Something has to give. According to a long-standing family agreement, the grandfather has maintained his Swedish citizenship by coming to stay with his son in Stockholm every six months. 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The Family Clause
From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.
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You Are Not What We Expected
This collection is a portrait of a Jewish community and the secular and religious families who inhabit it and the tensions that exist there.
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Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein
In 1966 Margaret Atwood and Charles Pachter teamed up to create Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein — now a unique piece of Canadian cultural history.
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The New Brick Reader
Full of invigorating and challenging literary essays, interviews, memoirs, travelogues, belles letters, and unusual musings.
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Easy to Like
A bitingly hilarious satire of the making of wine, television, and taste from one of Canada’s most accomplished comic writers.
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The Blue Book
A novel of illusions and false trails, magical numbers and redemptive humour, about what happens when we are misled and what happens when we are true.
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Thank you, Marie, for your openness and authenticity in sharing those stories so that they become our stories for generations to come.” —\u003cstrong\u003eDenise Amyot, former president of Colleges Institutes Canada and former ADM and CEO of a federal Crown corporation in the Government of Canada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_24":"\u003cp\u003e“Marie Wilson's book, \u003ci\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e, is a tour de force. It's that rare thing: both an intimate memoir and a compelling portrait of a crucial part of Canada's past and present. The only woman, northerner, and non-Indigenous member of the three TRC commissioners, Wilson brought a unique combination of journalism skills and cross-cultural experience as a member of a Dene family to the most revealing and far-reaching inquiry into Indigenous peoples' individual and collective experiences with the country's residential school system. 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Each poem comes to life through vivid, playful illustrations that show the children immersed in their surroundings. The book serves as a gentle call to action — to notice, appreciate, preserve and protect our environment, while delighting in all its beauty. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mindfulness activity — A Mindful Walk or Roll — invites young readers to use their senses to experience their surroundings to the fullest. 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ages 3
to 6
/ grades P
to 1
Sometimes I Feel Like a River
Following the huge success of Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox, this companion book is a lyrical celebration of our relationship to the natural world.
