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{"id":7325030383675,"title":"Sleepless Night","handle":"sleepless-night","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this short, beautifully written novel, the grande dame of Dutch literature recounts a story of romance and death while performing a midnight baking ritual.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA woman gets up in the middle of a wintry night and starts baking a Bundt cake while her lover sleeps upstairs. When it’s time for her to take the cake out of the oven, we have consumed a story of romance and death. The narrator was widowed years before and is trying to find new passion. But the memory of her deceased husband and a shameful incident holds her in its grasp. Why did he do it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMargriet de Moor tells a gripping love story about endings and demise, rage and jealousy, knowledge and ambiguity — and the possibility of new beginnings.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T11:28:02-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T11:28:02-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"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":43249671241787,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781487005283","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Sleepless Night - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":140,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781487005283","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487005283.jpg?v=1736353572"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487005283.jpg?v=1736353572","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"A wood table sits in front of a black background. On the table is a cake with a bundt shape. It has a golden-brown exterior and the top and sides are heavily dusted with powdered sugar. Text: Sleepless Night. Margriet De Moor. “Subtle, enigmatic, and beautiful.” – Claire Fuller, Author of Swimming Lessons and Bitter Orange.","id":24979595132987,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487005283.jpg?v=1736353572"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487005283.jpg?v=1736353572","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this short, beautifully written novel, the grande dame of Dutch literature recounts a story of romance and death while performing a midnight baking ritual.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA woman gets up in the middle of a wintry night and starts baking a Bundt cake while her lover sleeps upstairs. When it’s time for her to take the cake out of the oven, we have consumed a story of romance and death. The narrator was widowed years before and is trying to find new passion. But the memory of her deceased husband and a shameful incident holds her in its grasp. Why did he do it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMargriet de Moor tells a gripping love story about endings and demise, rage and jealousy, knowledge and ambiguity — and the possibility of new beginnings.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eBorn in the Netherlands in 1941, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMARGRIET DE MOOR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e had a career as a classical singer before becoming an author with the Gouden Ezelsoor–winning short story collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeen from Behind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e. She won the AKO Literature Prize for her first novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst Gray, Then White, Then Blue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e. Her novels have been translated into twenty-four languages. De Moor lives in the Netherlands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"de Moor, Margriet","Contributor_1":"Doherty, David","Imprint":"Anansi International","NumberOfPages":"120","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325029597243,"title":"Fireflies","handle":"fireflies","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vivid and powerful novel set in post-WWII Japan, \u003cem\u003eFireflies\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles the lives of four interweaving characters navigating the war-torn streets of Tokyo during the American occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAugust 1945. Japan has been defeated in the Second World War. The country lies in ruins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSatsuko Takara and her teenage brother, Hiroshi, have lost their parents, and each other, during the firestorm that devastated Tokyo five months before. Hal Lynch, a haunted US reconnaissance photographer, has now become a photojournalist in Japan, where he stumbles upon a shocking story, concealed in the aftermath of war, and is determined to bring it to light. And Osamu Maruki, a dissolute writer, and once Satsuko’s beloved, has returned from the South Pacific a broken and changed man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs these characters’ stories spin out and converge, the war-torn streets of Tokyo come alive in this dazzlingly observed novel. Cinematic, brutal, yet beautiful,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFireflies\u003c\/em\u003e powerfully portrays the shock, the struggles, and the choices that arise from the destruction of war. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T11:12:29-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T11:12:29-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"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":43249686216763,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770893917","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Fireflies - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":426,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781770893917","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893917.jpg?v=1736352689"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893917.jpg?v=1736352689","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979586416699,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893917.jpg?v=1736352689"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893917.jpg?v=1736352689","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eA vivid and powerful novel set in post-WWII Japan, \u003cem\u003eFireflies\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles the lives of four interweaving characters navigating the war-torn streets of Tokyo during the American occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAugust 1945. Japan has been defeated in the Second World War. The country lies in ruins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSatsuko Takara and her teenage brother, Hiroshi, have lost their parents, and each other, during the firestorm that devastated Tokyo five months before. Hal Lynch, a haunted US reconnaissance photographer, has now become a photojournalist in Japan, where he stumbles upon a shocking story, concealed in the aftermath of war, and is determined to bring it to light. And Osamu Maruki, a dissolute writer, and once Satsuko’s beloved, has returned from the South Pacific a broken and changed man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs these characters’ stories spin out and converge, the war-torn streets of Tokyo come alive in this dazzlingly observed novel. Cinematic, brutal, yet beautiful,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFireflies\u003c\/em\u003e powerfully portrays the shock, the struggles, and the choices that arise from the destruction of war. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eBen Byrne was born in London in 1977 and studied Drama at the University of Manchester. He spent time in Japan working as an international market researcher and ethnographic filmmaker, which informed the writing of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFireflies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, his first novel. He lives in East London.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Byrne, Ben","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"408","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325028679739,"title":"Island of Wings","handle":"island-of-wings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJuly, 1830. On the ten-hour sail west from the Hebrides to the islands of St. Kilda, everything lies ahead for Lizzie and Neil McKenzie. Neil is to become the minister to the small community of islanders, and Lizzie, his new wife, is pregnant with their first child. As the two adjust to life on an exposed archipelago on the edge of civilization, where the natives live in squalor and subsist on a diet of seabirds, and babies perish mysteriously in their first week, their marriage -- and their sanity -- is threatened. Is Lizzie a wilful temptress drawing him away from his faith? Is Neil’s zealous Christianity unhinging into madness? And who, or what, is haunting the moors and cliff-tops?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExquisitely written and profoundly moving,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIsland of Wings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a richly imagined novel about two people struggling to keep their love, and their family, alive in a place of terrible hardship and tumultuous beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T10:59:28-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T10:59:28-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":2295,"price_min":2295,"price_max":2295,"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":41929732653115,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770890121","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Island of Wings","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2295,"weight":449,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781770890121","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770890121.jpg?v=1736351898"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770890121.jpg?v=1736351898","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979578323003,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770890121.jpg?v=1736351898"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770890121.jpg?v=1736351898","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJuly, 1830. On the ten-hour sail west from the Hebrides to the islands of St. Kilda, everything lies ahead for Lizzie and Neil McKenzie. Neil is to become the minister to the small community of islanders, and Lizzie, his new wife, is pregnant with their first child. As the two adjust to life on an exposed archipelago on the edge of civilization, where the natives live in squalor and subsist on a diet of seabirds, and babies perish mysteriously in their first week, their marriage -- and their sanity -- is threatened. Is Lizzie a wilful temptress drawing him away from his faith? Is Neil’s zealous Christianity unhinging into madness? And who, or what, is haunting the moors and cliff-tops?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExquisitely written and profoundly moving,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIsland of Wings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a richly imagined novel about two people struggling to keep their love, and their family, alive in a place of terrible hardship and tumultuous beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eBorn and brought up in southern Sweden, Karin Altenberg moved to Britain in 1996. She is currently senior advisor to the Swedish National Heritage Board and is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIsland of Wings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;is her first novel, and she is currently working on her second.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Altenberg, Karin","Imprint":"Anansi International","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325028483131,"title":"Sun Bear","handle":"sun-bear","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fourth collection from the celebrated American poet and editor, Matthew Zapruder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatthew Zapruder’s poems begin in the faint inkling, in the bloom of thought, and then unfold into wide-reaching meditations on what it means to live in the contemporary moment, among plastic, statistics, and diet soda. Written in a direct, conversational style, the poems in Sun Bear display full-force why Zapruder is one of the most popular poets in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom “I Drink Bronze Light”:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreat American summer lakes\u003cbr\u003eright now I am flying above you\u003cbr\u003ethrough a rare cloudless transparent sky\u003cbr\u003eback to the city where it is always\u003cbr\u003ecold even in summer\u003cbr\u003ethe round hole I press my face against\u003cbr\u003eshows only a blue expanse\u003cbr\u003ewith white sails below\u003cbr\u003especkled exactly the way\u003cbr\u003ethe Aegean would have been\u003cbr\u003ethree thousand years ago\u003cbr\u003eif one could have seen it from above\u003cbr\u003emaybe riding in the dark claw\u003cbr\u003eof a god who didn’t care…\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T10:53:17-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T10:53:17-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"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":43249716658235,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770894594","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Sun Bear - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":227,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781770894594","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770894594.jpg?v=1736351548"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770894594.jpg?v=1736351548","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979576029243,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.662,"height":604,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770894594.jpg?v=1736351548"},"aspect_ratio":0.662,"height":604,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770894594.jpg?v=1736351548","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe fourth collection from the celebrated American poet and editor, Matthew Zapruder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatthew Zapruder’s poems begin in the faint inkling, in the bloom of thought, and then unfold into wide-reaching meditations on what it means to live in the contemporary moment, among plastic, statistics, and diet soda. Written in a direct, conversational style, the poems in Sun Bear display full-force why Zapruder is one of the most popular poets in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom “I Drink Bronze Light”:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreat American summer lakes\u003cbr\u003eright now I am flying above you\u003cbr\u003ethrough a rare cloudless transparent sky\u003cbr\u003eback to the city where it is always\u003cbr\u003ecold even in summer\u003cbr\u003ethe round hole I press my face against\u003cbr\u003eshows only a blue expanse\u003cbr\u003ewith white sails below\u003cbr\u003especkled exactly the way\u003cbr\u003ethe Aegean would have been\u003cbr\u003ethree thousand years ago\u003cbr\u003eif one could have seen it from above\u003cbr\u003emaybe riding in the dark claw\u003cbr\u003eof a god who didn’t care…\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eMatthew Zapruder has published four collections of poetry, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pajamaist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, which won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in many publications, including, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Zapruder, Matthew","Imprint":"Anansi International","NumberOfPages":"120","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325028122683,"title":"Mole","handle":"mole","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow does the embrace of levity -- that warm, human voice, perceptive of its own limits -- find its way to the listener in today's shattered world? By blind burrowing? Heat fluctuations in loam and subsoil? Instinct and luck?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMuch like the mole of the title, Patrick Warner's poems accomplish great feats of imagination, exposure, empathy, and insight, disguised all the while as pleasingly modest creatures of accident and stealth. As with all the very best poets, Warner can take overlooked corners and negligible objects and turn them into prisms, portals, tuning forks, and flint rocks. A bracing, perpetually pleasing work from one of Canada's most celebrated poets.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T10:43:22-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T10:43:22-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"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":43252594442299,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887848216","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Mole - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":127,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887848216","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848216_HR.jpg?v=1768339091"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848216_HR.jpg?v=1768339091","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":26283684954171,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":2547,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848216_HR.jpg?v=1768339091"},"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":2547,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848216_HR.jpg?v=1768339091","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eHow does the embrace of levity -- that warm, human voice, perceptive of its own limits -- find its way to the listener in today's shattered world? By blind burrowing? Heat fluctuations in loam and subsoil? Instinct and luck?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMuch like the mole of the title, Patrick Warner's poems accomplish great feats of imagination, exposure, empathy, and insight, disguised all the while as pleasingly modest creatures of accident and stealth. As with all the very best poets, Warner can take overlooked corners and negligible objects and turn them into prisms, portals, tuning forks, and flint rocks. A bracing, perpetually pleasing work from one of Canada's most celebrated poets.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"In 2007, Patrick Warner won the E.J. Pratt Poetry Prize Award for his collection, \u003cem\u003eThere, There\u003c\/em\u003e. His first collection of poetry, \u003cem\u003eAll Manner of Misunderstanding\u003c\/em\u003e, was nominated for the 2002 Atlantic Poetry Prize and for the 2003 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards. His work has been published in \u003cem\u003eTickleAce, The Fiddlehead, Matrix, Signal,\u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eSunday Telegram\u003c\/em\u003e (St. John's), \u003cem\u003ePoetry Ireland Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMetre\u003c\/em\u003e (Ireland). He lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Warner, Patrick","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"112","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325026844731,"title":"Nice Weather","handle":"nice-weather","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Something is going on. Something is wrong.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrederick Seidel — the \"ghoul\" (\u003cem\u003eChicago Review\u003c\/em\u003e), the \"triumphant outsider\" (\u003cem\u003eContemporary Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e) — returns with a dangerous new collection of poems.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNice Weather\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epresents the sexual and political themes that have long preoccupied Seidel — and thrilled and offended his readers. Lyrical, grotesque, elegiac, this book adds new music and menace to his masterful body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T10:19:45-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T10:19:45-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"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":43249738514491,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770892620","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Nice Weather - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":191,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781770892620","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770892620.jpg?v=1736349520"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770892620.jpg?v=1736349520","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979557843003,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":594,"width":396,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770892620.jpg?v=1736349520"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":594,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770892620.jpg?v=1736349520","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Something is going on. Something is wrong.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrederick Seidel — the \"ghoul\" (\u003cem\u003eChicago Review\u003c\/em\u003e), the \"triumphant outsider\" (\u003cem\u003eContemporary Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e) — returns with a dangerous new collection of poems.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNice Weather\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epresents the sexual and political themes that have long preoccupied Seidel — and thrilled and offended his readers. Lyrical, grotesque, elegiac, this book adds new music and menace to his masterful body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eFrederick Seidel's many books of poems include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cosmos Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOoga-Booga\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoems 1959-2009\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Seidel, Frederick","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"112","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325026353211,"title":"A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno","handle":"a-doctor-pedalled-her-bicycle-over-the-river-arno","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno\u003c\/em\u003e carries within it all the technique, vision, imaginative labour, and razor-sharp precision of Matt Rader’s first two collections, \u003cem\u003eLiving Things\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMiraculous Hours\u003c\/em\u003e. But it also ascends to a new and luminous, demanding, particularized realm of the human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWildflowers and weeds, newspaper archives and illness, hostels and hostiles, parenting and the shadowy history of grandparents, war and Renaissance paintings: Matt Rader’s unassuming, deeply spirited, and expansive poems show us again how contemporary lyric can go such a long way toward revealing our true homes to us at the moment we find ourselves most nakedly un-housed. Rader seeks out limits, borders, and frontiers -- those mapped for us by authority, and the concomitant, interior shadowlines we ourselves draw -- in order to test their validity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf Borges had imagined an atlas of our layered identities, it might look like these poems. This is an astounding collection from a thrilling voice in poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T10:08:30-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T10:08:30-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":2295,"price_min":2295,"price_max":2295,"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":43252621803579,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887842559","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":104,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887842559","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":[],"featured_image":null,"options":["Title"],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno\u003c\/em\u003e carries within it all the technique, vision, imaginative labour, and razor-sharp precision of Matt Rader’s first two collections, \u003cem\u003eLiving Things\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMiraculous Hours\u003c\/em\u003e. But it also ascends to a new and luminous, demanding, particularized realm of the human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWildflowers and weeds, newspaper archives and illness, hostels and hostiles, parenting and the shadowy history of grandparents, war and Renaissance paintings: Matt Rader’s unassuming, deeply spirited, and expansive poems show us again how contemporary lyric can go such a long way toward revealing our true homes to us at the moment we find ourselves most nakedly un-housed. Rader seeks out limits, borders, and frontiers -- those mapped for us by authority, and the concomitant, interior shadowlines we ourselves draw -- in order to test their validity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf Borges had imagined an atlas of our layered identities, it might look like these poems. This is an astounding collection from a thrilling voice in poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"Matt Rader is the critically acclaimed author of the poetry collections\u003cem\u003e Living Things\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMiraculous Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and longlisted for the ReLit Award. His poems, stories, and nonfiction have appeared in journals and anthologies across North America, Australia, and Europe and have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Journey Prize, the National Magazine Award, and two Pushcart Prizes. He lives in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island.","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Rader, Matt","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"88","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325024911419,"title":"Chameleon Hours","handle":"chameleon-hours","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChameleon Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, Elise Partridge's follow-up to her much-admired\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFielder's Choice\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(2002), is evidence that lyric poetry -- clean, bracing, unadorned -- truly can be equal to challenging subject matter. In these poems, love for friends, family, and partners, and most impressively, the urge to love strangers in need, kindles the fire of the voice. Partridge's poems see the world in its particulars, and offer a kind of fidelity to small and contingent details.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull of wit and empathy, yet utterly free of the sensationalism that mars so much of contemporary verse, Elise Partridge's poems draw inspiration from sources as whimsical as snails and frogs, as poignant as a homeless woman taking shelter inside a post office on a winter night, and as deeply personal as her own cancer diagnosis at a relatively young age. Her poetry gives us a steadiness of vision, and reminds us we live among treasures.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T09:35:28-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T09:35:28-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"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":43249755488315,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887847608","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Chameleon Hours - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":118,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887847608","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847608.jpg?v=1736346874"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847608.jpg?v=1736346874","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979544277051,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":611,"width":396,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847608.jpg?v=1736346874"},"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":611,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847608.jpg?v=1736346874","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChameleon Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, Elise Partridge's follow-up to her much-admired\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFielder's Choice\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(2002), is evidence that lyric poetry -- clean, bracing, unadorned -- truly can be equal to challenging subject matter. In these poems, love for friends, family, and partners, and most impressively, the urge to love strangers in need, kindles the fire of the voice. Partridge's poems see the world in its particulars, and offer a kind of fidelity to small and contingent details.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull of wit and empathy, yet utterly free of the sensationalism that mars so much of contemporary verse, Elise Partridge's poems draw inspiration from sources as whimsical as snails and frogs, as poignant as a homeless woman taking shelter inside a post office on a winter night, and as deeply personal as her own cancer diagnosis at a relatively young age. Her poetry gives us a steadiness of vision, and reminds us we live among treasures.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eElise Partridge’s first book of poems, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFielder’s Choice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and her second, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Chameleon Hours\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, was a finalist for the BC Book Prize, won the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Award, and was featured in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e “Poet’s Choice” column.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"Bu (author)","Contributor_0":"Partridge, Elise","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"112","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325024714811,"title":"The Story","handle":"the-story","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Ondaatje's poetry has become a touchstone in Canadian letters. To readers, his work includes some of the most memorable and moving verse written in the past half-century. To writers, his sensual line and diamond-cut imagery have become a tuning fork and a road map into the world. The Story is another gem, another atlas of intense connections and unavoidable loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike a miniature of Ondaatje's larger themes -- love, memory, family, exile --\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Story\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eunfolds into our dismantled childhoods, and offers us the freedom to extend its narrative into our own lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis beautiful, hauntingly illustrated edition of Michael Ondaatje's poem\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Story\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas conceived by Ondaatje and artist David Bolduc as a fundraising project for World Literacy of Canada. All royalties from the sale of this book will go directly to World Literacy to help it continue its literacy work with women and children in India.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T09:27:39-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T09:27:39-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":2495,"price_min":2495,"price_max":2495,"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":43249769906235,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887841941","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The Story - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2495,"weight":363,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887841941","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887841941.jpg?v=1736346401"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887841941.jpg?v=1736346401","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979541393467,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.893,"height":466,"width":416,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887841941.jpg?v=1736346401"},"aspect_ratio":0.893,"height":466,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887841941.jpg?v=1736346401","width":416}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Ondaatje's poetry has become a touchstone in Canadian letters. To readers, his work includes some of the most memorable and moving verse written in the past half-century. To writers, his sensual line and diamond-cut imagery have become a tuning fork and a road map into the world. The Story is another gem, another atlas of intense connections and unavoidable loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike a miniature of Ondaatje's larger themes -- love, memory, family, exile --\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Story\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eunfolds into our dismantled childhoods, and offers us the freedom to extend its narrative into our own lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis beautiful, hauntingly illustrated edition of Michael Ondaatje's poem\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Story\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas conceived by Ondaatje and artist David Bolduc as a fundraising project for World Literacy of Canada. All royalties from the sale of this book will go directly to World Literacy to help it continue its literacy work with women and children in India.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMICHAEL ONDAATJE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Camel in the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, illustrated by Linda Wolfsgruber, which was selected for the Austria Children’s Book Prize, shortlisted for the Middle East Book Award, and has been translated into German and Korean. He is also the editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Monkey King and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, a collection of South Asian stories, folktales and legends, and the director of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eComplete Unknown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, a documentary film about Bob Dylan. He has three children and lives with his family in Toronto.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Ondaatje, Michael","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"48","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325024419899,"title":"Upgraded to Serious","handle":"upgraded-to-serious","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNational Book Award finalist Heather McHugh presents a fast-paced and brilliantly humorous book. Utilizing medical terminology to work through loss and detachment, McHugh's startling rhymes and rhythms -- along with her sarcastic self-reflection -- serve as antidotes to the sufferings of the world. Being \"upgraded to serious\" from critical condition is a nod to the healing powers of poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T09:20:21-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T09:20:21-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"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":43249773183035,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887848414","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Upgraded to Serious - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":163,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887848414","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848414.jpg?v=1736345954"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848414.jpg?v=1736345954","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979536216123,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.668,"height":648,"width":433,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848414.jpg?v=1736345954"},"aspect_ratio":0.668,"height":648,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848414.jpg?v=1736345954","width":433}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNational Book Award finalist Heather McHugh presents a fast-paced and brilliantly humorous book. Utilizing medical terminology to work through loss and detachment, McHugh's startling rhymes and rhythms -- along with her sarcastic self-reflection -- serve as antidotes to the sufferings of the world. Being \"upgraded to serious\" from critical condition is a nod to the healing powers of poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eHeather McHugh is an award-winning poet. She lives in Seattle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"Edited by","Contributor_0":"McHugh, Heather","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"112","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7324955148347,"title":"Directing Herbert White","handle":"directing-herbert-white","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’m a nocturnal creature,\u003cbr\u003eAnd I’m here to cheat time.\u003cbr\u003eYou can see time and exhaustion\u003cbr\u003eTaking pay from my face—\u003cbr\u003eIn fifty years\u003cbr\u003eMy sleep will be death,\u003cbr\u003eI’ll go like the rest,\u003cbr\u003eBut I’ll have played\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the games and all the roles.\u003cbr\u003e—from “Nocturnal”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“There’s never been a book quite like this. Hollywood — fame, celebrity, the promise of becoming an artist — is the beast at its center. Franco knows it like Melville knows whaling. Hollywood in this book devours its young. Obsessed with myths about its own past, it can be survived only by finding a vantage point that is not Hollywood. Bold yet subtle, fearless yet disarming, Franco has made a book you will never forget.” — Frank Bidart, winner of the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A star-studded cast moves like ghosts across the screen of James Franco’s poetic consciousness, imbuing the writing with scenes of icons who are also humans replete with sorrow and presence in our own psyches. James Dean, Monica Vitti, Catherine Deneuve, Sal Mineo, Heath Ledger, pass and fade. The author has a wonderful self-reflexive insouciance about his own fame and roles inhabited, from Hart Crane to Allen Ginsberg to Harvey Milk’s lover. Franco is a gifted contemporary Renaissance kind of guy, surveying the waterfront of illusion, suffering, and impermanance. We leave the movie theater a little wiser.” — Anne Waldman, poet, editor, scholar, and cultural\/political activist\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-07T17:13:12-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-07T17:13:12-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"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":43249785471035,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770894570","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Directing Herbert White - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":181,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781770894570","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770894570.jpg?v=1736287922"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770894570.jpg?v=1736287922","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24978917294139,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770894570.jpg?v=1736287922"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770894570.jpg?v=1736287922","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’m a nocturnal creature,\u003cbr\u003eAnd I’m here to cheat time.\u003cbr\u003eYou can see time and exhaustion\u003cbr\u003eTaking pay from my face—\u003cbr\u003eIn fifty years\u003cbr\u003eMy sleep will be death,\u003cbr\u003eI’ll go like the rest,\u003cbr\u003eBut I’ll have played\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the games and all the roles.\u003cbr\u003e—from “Nocturnal”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“There’s never been a book quite like this. Hollywood — fame, celebrity, the promise of becoming an artist — is the beast at its center. Franco knows it like Melville knows whaling. Hollywood in this book devours its young. Obsessed with myths about its own past, it can be survived only by finding a vantage point that is not Hollywood. Bold yet subtle, fearless yet disarming, Franco has made a book you will never forget.” — Frank Bidart, winner of the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A star-studded cast moves like ghosts across the screen of James Franco’s poetic consciousness, imbuing the writing with scenes of icons who are also humans replete with sorrow and presence in our own psyches. James Dean, Monica Vitti, Catherine Deneuve, Sal Mineo, Heath Ledger, pass and fade. The author has a wonderful self-reflexive insouciance about his own fame and roles inhabited, from Hart Crane to Allen Ginsberg to Harvey Milk’s lover. Franco is a gifted contemporary Renaissance kind of guy, surveying the waterfront of illusion, suffering, and impermanance. We leave the movie theater a little wiser.” — Anne Waldman, poet, editor, scholar, and cultural\/political activist\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":7324952854587,"title":"The Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 Anthology","handle":"the-griffin-poetry-prize-2001-anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn June 2001, the inaugural Griffin Poetry Prize for the best book of poetry published in English in 2000 was awarded to two poets: one Canadian and one international poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Griffin Prize Anthology includes selections from the remarkable shortlisted books chosen by jurors Carolyn Forche, Dennis Lee, and Paul Muldoon. The selections are from the winning translation by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh of Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan, Canadian winner Anne Carson's Men in the Off Hours, the translation by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld of Yehuda Amichai's Open Closed Open, Fanny Howe's Selected Poems, Les Murray's Learning Human: Selected Poems, Robert Bringhurst's translation of Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas's Nine Visits to the Mythworld, and Don McKay's Another Gravity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis beautiful selection of these seven extraordinary collections, chosen by poet Esta Spalding, is both a celebration of these formidable poets and this prestigious new prize in one volume. Royalties generated from The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-07T16:51:55-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-07T16:51:56-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1695,"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":43252667121723,"title":"trade paperback with flaps","option1":"trade paperback with flaps","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887846724","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 Anthology - trade paperback with flaps","public_title":"trade paperback with flaps","options":["trade paperback with flaps"],"price":1695,"weight":145,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887846724","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":[],"featured_image":null,"options":["Title"],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIn June 2001, the inaugural Griffin Poetry Prize for the best book of poetry published in English in 2000 was awarded to two poets: one Canadian and one international poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Griffin Prize Anthology includes selections from the remarkable shortlisted books chosen by jurors Carolyn Forche, Dennis Lee, and Paul Muldoon. The selections are from the winning translation by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh of Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan, Canadian winner Anne Carson's Men in the Off Hours, the translation by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld of Yehuda Amichai's Open Closed Open, Fanny Howe's Selected Poems, Les Murray's Learning Human: Selected Poems, Robert Bringhurst's translation of Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas's Nine Visits to the Mythworld, and Don McKay's Another Gravity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis beautiful selection of these seven extraordinary collections, chosen by poet Esta Spalding, is both a celebration of these formidable poets and this prestigious new prize in one volume. Royalties generated from The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"Esta Spalding's first book, \u003cem\u003eCarrying Place\u003c\/em\u003e, was nominated for the Gerald R. Lampert Award and her second, \u003cem\u003eAnchoress\u003c\/em\u003e, was a finalist for the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Best Specialty Book of the Year. Her third book, \u003cem\u003eLost August\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and her fourth, \u003cem\u003eThe Wife's Account\u003c\/em\u003e, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Esta lives in Guelph, Ontario.","ContributorRole_0":"Edited by","Contributor_0":"Spalding, Esta","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"96","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
