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{"id":7325034020923,"title":"The Other Joseph","handle":"the-other-joseph","description":"\u003cp\u003eA masterful depiction of a life driven off the rails by tragedy and sin — a man now summoned by the legacy of a beloved, lost brother to embark on a journey in search toward understanding, happiness, and redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaunted by the disappearance of his older brother Tommy in the first Gulf War, the tragic deaths of his parents, and the felony conviction that has branded him for a decade, Roy Joseph has labored in lonesome exile — and under the ever-watchful eyes of the law—moving between oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana and an Airstream trailer he shares with his dog.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen, on the cusp of his thirtieth birthday, Roy is contacted by a teenage girl from California claiming to be his lost brother’s biological daughter. Yearning for connection and the prospect of family, Roy embarks on a journey across America, visiting childhood haunts in the South to confront his troubled memories and history, and making a stop in Nevada to call on a retired Navy SEAL who may hold the answer to Tommy’s fate. The ultimate destination is San Francisco, where a potential Russian bride and his long-lost niece await, and Roy may finally recover the Joseph line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith \u003cem\u003eThe Other Joseph\u003c\/em\u003e, Skip Horack delivers a powerful, spellbinding tale of a man nearly defeated by life who is given one last chance at redemption — one last shot to find meaning and alter the course of his solitary existence.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T12:07:19-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T12:07:19-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"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":43249280876603,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770894259","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The Other Joseph - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":322,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781770894259","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770894259.jpg?v=1736355983"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770894259.jpg?v=1736355983","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979609223227,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":675,"width":450,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770894259.jpg?v=1736355983"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":675,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770894259.jpg?v=1736355983","width":450}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eA masterful depiction of a life driven off the rails by tragedy and sin — a man now summoned by the legacy of a beloved, lost brother to embark on a journey in search toward understanding, happiness, and redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaunted by the disappearance of his older brother Tommy in the first Gulf War, the tragic deaths of his parents, and the felony conviction that has branded him for a decade, Roy Joseph has labored in lonesome exile — and under the ever-watchful eyes of the law—moving between oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana and an Airstream trailer he shares with his dog.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen, on the cusp of his thirtieth birthday, Roy is contacted by a teenage girl from California claiming to be his lost brother’s biological daughter. Yearning for connection and the prospect of family, Roy embarks on a journey across America, visiting childhood haunts in the South to confront his troubled memories and history, and making a stop in Nevada to call on a retired Navy SEAL who may hold the answer to Tommy’s fate. The ultimate destination is San Francisco, where a potential Russian bride and his long-lost niece await, and Roy may finally recover the Joseph line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith \u003cem\u003eThe Other Joseph\u003c\/em\u003e, Skip Horack delivers a powerful, spellbinding tale of a man nearly defeated by life who is given one last chance at redemption — one last shot to find meaning and alter the course of his solitary existence.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eSkip Horack is a former Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, where he was also a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His story collection\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Southern Cross,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e won the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Fiction Prize, and his novel\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Eden Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;was a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e Book Review\u0026nbsp;Editors' Choice. A native of Louisiana, he is currently an assistant professor at Florida State University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Horack, Skip","Imprint":"Anansi International","NumberOfPages":"288","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325032054843,"title":"Returning to Earth","handle":"returning-to-earth","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiterary giant Jim Harrison's masterpiece novel is a deeply moving story about origins and endings, how to make sense of loss, and how to live with honour for the dead. It is one of the finest novels of Harrison's long, storied career, and confirms his standing as one of the most important writers now working in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDonald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, the father of two grown children and married to a white woman, Cynthia, who long ago renounced the wealth she was raised with. As\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eReturning to Earth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eopens, Donald is slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. As his condition worsens he realizes that when he dies, there will be no one left to pass on to his children their family history. He begins dictating to Cynthia stories he has never shared with anyone. Around him, his family struggles with allowing Donald to die with the same dignity with which he always lived.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T11:58:53-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T11:58:53-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1795,"price_min":1795,"price_max":1795,"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":43249285660731,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887847868","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Returning to Earth - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1795,"weight":363,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887847868","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847868.jpg?v=1736355465"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847868.jpg?v=1736355465","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979607224379,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":594,"width":396,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847868.jpg?v=1736355465"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":594,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847868.jpg?v=1736355465","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eLiterary giant Jim Harrison's masterpiece novel is a deeply moving story about origins and endings, how to make sense of loss, and how to live with honour for the dead. It is one of the finest novels of Harrison's long, storied career, and confirms his standing as one of the most important writers now working in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDonald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, the father of two grown children and married to a white woman, Cynthia, who long ago renounced the wealth she was raised with. As\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eReturning to Earth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eopens, Donald is slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. As his condition worsens he realizes that when he dies, there will be no one left to pass on to his children their family history. He begins dictating to Cynthia stories he has never shared with anyone. Around him, his family struggles with allowing Donald to die with the same dignity with which he always lived.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eJim Harrison is the author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He divides his time between Michigan, Montana, and Arizona.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Harrison, Jim","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"288","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325031759931,"title":"The Great Leader","handle":"the-great-leader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLiterary legend Jim Harrison gives us a brilliant new work that finds him writing at the height of his powers, and in fresh and audacious new directions. The Great Leader is the story of Detective Sunderson, a northern Michigan police detective who has recently retired and has one case he can’t quite shake -- the investigation of a cult leader whom he eventually pursues to Arizona and further afield. Harrison gives readers a unique take on the culture of “Yoopers” (what folks from the rest of Michigan and the Midwest call people from the Upper Peninsula) and cops, in a novel that is wonderfully clever, powerful, and slyly redemptive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T11:53:49-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T11:53:49-05:00","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":43249286414395,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770890367","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The Great Leader - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":408,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781770890367","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770890367.jpg?v=1736355141"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770890367.jpg?v=1736355141","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979605782587,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2475,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770890367.jpg?v=1736355141"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2475,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770890367.jpg?v=1736355141","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLiterary legend Jim Harrison gives us a brilliant new work that finds him writing at the height of his powers, and in fresh and audacious new directions. The Great Leader is the story of Detective Sunderson, a northern Michigan police detective who has recently retired and has one case he can’t quite shake -- the investigation of a cult leader whom he eventually pursues to Arizona and further afield. Harrison gives readers a unique take on the culture of “Yoopers” (what folks from the rest of Michigan and the Midwest call people from the Upper Peninsula) and cops, in a novel that is wonderfully clever, powerful, and slyly redemptive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eJim Harrison is the author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He divides his time between Michigan, Montana, and Arizona.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Harrison, Jim","Imprint":"Anansi International","NumberOfPages":"336","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325031333947,"title":"One Night, Markovitch","handle":"one-night-markovitch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCaptain Corelli’s Mandolin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emeets\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Marrying of Chani Kaufman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein this cinematic novel about the birth of Israel and the true story of the marriages of convenience that were arranged to smuggle Jewish women out of Nazi-occupied Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the eve of World War II, a ship bearing twenty young men sets sail from the Palestine Territory toward Europe. Eagerly awaiting them on the other side are twenty young women, whom the men have never met. They have been set up in arranged marriages to enable Jewish women to escape Nazi Germany and enter Palestine without being turned back by the British.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut when Yaacov Markovitch, a thoroughly unremarkable man, finds himself married to Bella Zeigerman, the most beautiful woman he has ever set eyes upon, things start to get complicated. Yaacov’s fake marriage is the beginning of a lifelong obsession, as he vows to make his beautiful bride, Bella, love him, despite her determination to break free. Their changing fortunes take them through war, upheaval, terrible secrets, tragedy, joy, and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVital, funny, and tender,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne Night, Markovitch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebrilliantly fuses personal lives and epic history in an unforgettable story of endless, hopeless longing and the desperate search for love.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T11:44:57-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T11:44:57-05:00","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":43250105286715,"title":"trade paperback with flaps","option1":"trade paperback with flaps","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770899766","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"One Night, Markovitch - trade paperback with flaps","public_title":"trade paperback with flaps","options":["trade paperback with flaps"],"price":2295,"weight":544,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781770899766","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770899766.jpg?v=1736354610"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770899766.jpg?v=1736354610","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979603652667,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770899766.jpg?v=1736354610"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770899766.jpg?v=1736354610","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCaptain Corelli’s Mandolin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emeets\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Marrying of Chani Kaufman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein this cinematic novel about the birth of Israel and the true story of the marriages of convenience that were arranged to smuggle Jewish women out of Nazi-occupied Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the eve of World War II, a ship bearing twenty young men sets sail from the Palestine Territory toward Europe. Eagerly awaiting them on the other side are twenty young women, whom the men have never met. They have been set up in arranged marriages to enable Jewish women to escape Nazi Germany and enter Palestine without being turned back by the British.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut when Yaacov Markovitch, a thoroughly unremarkable man, finds himself married to Bella Zeigerman, the most beautiful woman he has ever set eyes upon, things start to get complicated. Yaacov’s fake marriage is the beginning of a lifelong obsession, as he vows to make his beautiful bride, Bella, love him, despite her determination to break free. Their changing fortunes take them through war, upheaval, terrible secrets, tragedy, joy, and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVital, funny, and tender,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne Night, Markovitch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebrilliantly fuses personal lives and epic history in an unforgettable story of endless, hopeless longing and the desperate search for love.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eAYELET GUNDAR-GOSHEN was born in Israel in 1982. She has written or co-written a number of screenplays and TV series and has produced short films that have been selected for film festivals in Israel and around the world. She has won the Gottlieb Prize for Young Screenwriters, and the Berlin Today Award for her short film\u0026nbsp;Batman at the Checkpoint. One Night, Markovitch, her first novel, won the Sapir Prize for Debut Fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSONDRA SILVERSTON\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e is an acclaimed American translator who has lived in Israel since 1970. She has translated work by Amos Oz,\u0026nbsp;Etgar Keret, Savyon Liebrecht, and Aharon Megged.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Gundar-Goshen, Ayelet","Contributor_1":"Silverston, Sondra","Imprint":"Anansi International","NumberOfPages":"384","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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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":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":43249671241787,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781487005283","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"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":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":43249686216763,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770893917","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"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":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":43249716658235,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770894594","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"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":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":43252594442299,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887848216","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"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":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":43249738514491,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770892620","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"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":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":43252621803579,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887842559","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"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":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":43249755488315,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887847608","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"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"}
