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{"id":6816107855931,"title":"Belonging","handle":"belonging","description":"Never has the world experienced greater movement of peoples from one country to another, from one continent to another. These seismic shifts in population have brought about huge challenges for all societies. In this year’s Massey Lectures, Canada’s twenty-sixth Governor General and bestselling author Adrienne Clarkson argues that a sense of belonging is a necessary mediation between an individual and a society. She masterfully chronicles the evolution of citizenship throughout the ages: from the genesis of the idea of the citizen in ancient Greece, to the medieval structures of guilds and class; from the revolutionary period which gave birth to the modern nation-state, to present-day citizenship based on shared values, consensus, and pluralism. Clarkson places particular emphasis on the Canadian model, which promotes immigration, parliamentary democracy, and the rule of law, and the First Nations circle, which embodies notions of expansion and equality. She concludes by looking forward, using the Bhutanese example of Gross National Happiness to determine how we measure up today and how far we have to go to bring into being the citizen, and the society, of tomorrow.","published_at":"2022-03-25T14:25:18-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-25T11:44:13-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Clarkson Adrienne","House of Anansi Press","Massey Lectures","pub date: 2014-09-19","The CBC Massey Lectures"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":2295,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40213526708283,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898370","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Belonging - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":318,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770898370","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40213527035963,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898394","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Belonging - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":2295,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770898394","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40213527265339,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898400","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Belonging - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770898400","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_34262d89-1c2c-4159-8ce4-9033b7ea5aac.jpg?v=1678595789"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_34262d89-1c2c-4159-8ce4-9033b7ea5aac.jpg?v=1678595789","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324470902843,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_34262d89-1c2c-4159-8ce4-9033b7ea5aac.jpg?v=1678595789"},"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_34262d89-1c2c-4159-8ce4-9033b7ea5aac.jpg?v=1678595789","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"Never has the world experienced greater movement of peoples from one country to another, from one continent to another. 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She concludes by looking forward, using the Bhutanese example of Gross National Happiness to determine how we measure up today and how far we have to go to bring into being the citizen, and the society, of tomorrow."}
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Belonging
Former Governor General and bestselling author Adrienne Clarkson delivers the 2014 CBC Massey Lectures on citizenship.
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{"id":6816106545211,"title":"The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi","handle":"the-secret-book-of-grazia-dei-rossi","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sweeping saga of intrigue and romance set during the Italian Renaissance and told through the eyes of Grazia dei Rossi, a young Jewish woman torn between duty and forbidden romance, who wins our hearts with her recorded secrets of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrazia dei Rossi, private secretary to the world-renowned Isabella d’Este, is the daughter of an eminent Jewish banker, the wife of the pope’s Jewish physician, and the lover of a Christian prince. In a “secret book,” written as a legacy for her son, she records her struggles to choose between the seductions of the Christian world and a return to the family, traditions, and duties to her Jewish roots. As she re-creates Renaissance Italy in captivating detail, Jacqueline Park gives us a timeless portrait of a brave and brilliant woman trapped in an unforgiving, inflexible society.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-25T14:27:32-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-25T11:42:32-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["By (author) Park Jacqueline","Grazia dei Rossi Trilogy","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2014-04-23"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40213522743355,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898899","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":948,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770898899","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40213522874427,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898905","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770898905","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40213523071035,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898912","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770898912","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e8fd2887-aaff-4ddf-a850-9c0e0a2a6abe.jpg?v=1694759164"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e8fd2887-aaff-4ddf-a850-9c0e0a2a6abe.jpg?v=1694759164","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23790900740155,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e8fd2887-aaff-4ddf-a850-9c0e0a2a6abe.jpg?v=1694759164"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e8fd2887-aaff-4ddf-a850-9c0e0a2a6abe.jpg?v=1694759164","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eA sweeping saga of intrigue and romance set during the Italian Renaissance and told through the eyes of Grazia dei Rossi, a young Jewish woman torn between duty and forbidden romance, who wins our hearts with her recorded secrets of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrazia dei Rossi, private secretary to the world-renowned Isabella d’Este, is the daughter of an eminent Jewish banker, the wife of the pope’s Jewish physician, and the lover of a Christian prince. In a “secret book,” written as a legacy for her son, she records her struggles to choose between the seductions of the Christian world and a return to the family, traditions, and duties to her Jewish roots. As she re-creates Renaissance Italy in captivating detail, Jacqueline Park gives us a timeless portrait of a brave and brilliant woman trapped in an unforgiving, inflexible society.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi
A sweeping saga of intrigue and romance set during the Italian Renaissance and told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman.
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{"id":6816107626555,"title":"Congotronic","handle":"congotronic","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe second collection from Canadian poet and filmmaker Shane Book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book’s \u003cem\u003eCongotronic\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book’s poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array of sources, including slave narratives, Western philosophy, hip hop lyrics, and the diaries of plantation owners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book’s anchoring series contains an apocryphal narrative grounded in the journey of the Middle Passage and an older mythic history from the West African epic of Sundiata. Here is a world poet of the Sonic Global South sheathed in a Northern Hemispheric glow suit, high “on Coltrane, on Zeus” but also on the old and new schools of Descartes, M.I.A., Cecil Taylor, Gilbert Ryle, Freud, and Jay-Z, among others — or as one poem puts it, the \"aural truths.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:49-05:00","created_at":"2022-03-25T11:43:55-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Poetry","Anansi International","By (author) Book Shane","pub date: 2014-09-27"],"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":40213526446139,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898745","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Congotronic - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770898745","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_21b48e85-43ac-4bc4-b293-0788af3a7e22.jpg?v=1678595733"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_21b48e85-43ac-4bc4-b293-0788af3a7e22.jpg?v=1678595733","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324469035067,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":600,"width":375,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_21b48e85-43ac-4bc4-b293-0788af3a7e22.jpg?v=1678595733"},"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":600,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_21b48e85-43ac-4bc4-b293-0788af3a7e22.jpg?v=1678595733","width":375}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe second collection from Canadian poet and filmmaker Shane Book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book’s \u003cem\u003eCongotronic\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book’s poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array of sources, including slave narratives, Western philosophy, hip hop lyrics, and the diaries of plantation owners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book’s anchoring series contains an apocryphal narrative grounded in the journey of the Middle Passage and an older mythic history from the West African epic of Sundiata. Here is a world poet of the Sonic Global South sheathed in a Northern Hemispheric glow suit, high “on Coltrane, on Zeus” but also on the old and new schools of Descartes, M.I.A., Cecil Taylor, Gilbert Ryle, Freud, and Jay-Z, among others — or as one poem puts it, the \"aural truths.\"\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Congotronic
The second collection from Canadian poet and filmmaker Shane Book.
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{"id":6815467208763,"title":"A Whole Life","handle":"a-whole-life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for The 2017 National Translation Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for The 2017 International Dublin Literary Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for The 2016 Man Booker International Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he doesn't ask for her hand in marriage, but instead has some of his friends light her name at dusk across the mountain. When Marie dies in an avalanche, pregnant with their first child, Andreas' heart is broken. 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A tour de force that takes us across centuries, past frontiers . . . and doesn’t hesitate to flirt with fantasy.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe Devoir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Le Devoir","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Historical fiction at its finest ... full of wit, whimsy, and a wellspring of historical detail” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMontreal Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Montreal Review of Books","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Last year, Catherine Leroux’s The Party Wall arrived like a revelation: a French-Canadian novel with a continent-sized imagination, about connections between people over borders and across time. . . . [I]n The Longest Year Grenier engages a similar continental imaginary. 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The Longest Year
Daniel Grenier’s novel, perfect for fans of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, tells the story of a boy who ages only one out of every four years.
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{"id":6814258888763,"title":"The Substitute","handle":"the-substitute","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the tradition of Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins, \u003ci\u003eThe Substitute\u003c\/i\u003e is a deliciously creepy psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last page.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWarren Botts is a disillusioned Ph.D. taking a break from his lab to teach middle-school science. Gentle, soft-spoken, and introverted, Warren befriends thirteen-year-old Amanda, a lonely student looking for guidance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne morning, Warren returns from a jog to find Amanda dead, hanging from a tree in his backyard. A police investigation follows, but Warren is unable — or unwilling — to answer the questions that swirl around him. 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The Substitute
In the tradition of Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins, The Substitute is a deliciously creepy psychological thriller that will keep you guessing.
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A graphic novel about a legendary Canadian punk band, based on the feature film by Bruce McDonald and the novel by Michael Turner.
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As Peter Such tells it, he noticed a young man in a cheap coat several sizes too large for him, a man “staring straight ahead, looking at somewhere else completely.” Whatever he saw out there, he wrote it down on the back of a TTC transfer. On a hunch, Such asked the young man if he was a writer; he said, yes, I am. Such invited him to see Erindale, and with the help of an equally impressed registrar, Harold Ladoo found himself enrolled as a mature student at the new Mississauga campus of the University of Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe calendar said 1970 but it was still the sixties, and the talk in his corner of the student cafeteria was of Marx and Fanon, Lenin and Mao, Che Guevara and Angela Davis. Ladoo joined the battle as if he had been waiting for it his whole life (because he had), arguing about anything and everything, vigorously, intensely, to win. The other students called him Plato, partly out of respect, partly to mock him. He liked it. 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Again the editor said no, not yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat summer, Ladoo learned on the day of his father’s death — August 12, 1971 — that the people of Canada wanted to give him money to write a book. He used $300 of his $500 grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to return to Trinidad, where he found his mother drunk, his brother a confirmed lunatic, and his sisters and neighbours fighting over the property. When he came back to Toronto in September, he had no money, his wife was unemployed, his son was sick, and they were about to be evicted. A relative let the family move into the basement of her bungalow on Victoria Park Avenue. Ladoo borrowed enough money to go back to school for his second year, making the long commute from the edge of Scarborough to the middle of Mississauga. 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Postwar prosperity created both an existential backlash — the nagging sense that this can’t be all there is — and the means to buy what was missing or the leisure to produce it. Few realized it at the time, but that’s what the hippies of Yorkville shared with their parents, and with the politicians in Ottawa: the desire to redirect affluence into immaterial rewards, the “intangibles” that the Massey Report said make up a nation. You can’t get much more intangible than barefoot in the park.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN INSTANT CLASSIC:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eArrival is truly one of a kind; on publication it became the book on CanLit. There is nothing else like it in the marketplace. 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Acclaimed critic Nick Mount delves into Canada’s literary history and the era that produced some of our most internationally acclaimed authors.
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Invitations like this did not come around often and if I behaved myself the chance of a second invitation seemed good. Fishing held no interest to me, but the prospect of leaving the confines of our house, garden and road was thrilling. Such escapes were few and far between, even now, a year after the war had ended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy father stood by the door with his fishing line and a metal lunchbox that I knew contained the hooks and worms he would need my help with. I presented myself to him: feet together, back straight, saluting. It was a habit I had developed when he had come back from the fighting and I had hoped it would convince him that I was respectful and knowledgeable enough to hear about his adventures in France, especially the story that would explain how he had lost his right arm. 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The Last Wave
An intergenerational saga that follows the life of Martha, a woman who has swum the English Channel ten times, and her complex relationships.
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And he has delivered on the promise of finding her someone who, for a fee, would help her. But this man on the other hand could be taking her to the police station instead of the outskirts of Damascus where she’s supposed to meet someone who will take her to Beirut. She shakes the distressing thought away. 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Things Are Good Now
Things Are Good Now explores the scars of violence and the weight of love and guilt on the soul.
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It is a measure of her achievement that, over decades, these masterful poems continue to speak with undiminished accuracy.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Anne Michaels","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Twenty-five years after its initial publication, Power Politics remains a path-breaking lyric utterance on sexual politics and human survival, unflinching in its emotional honesty. Beyond truth, Atwood writes, tenacity . . . and no poet has proven more prescient or more courageous in this pursuit. The reappearance of this work is an occasion to be celebrated.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Src":"Carolyn Forché","OtherText_Accolades_2":"The pleasure of reading these poems today is not only in realizing the longevity of their power — the sting is still there — but in experiencing them anew in the light of the poetry and fiction written in the twenty-five years since.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Linda Hutcheon","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Astonishing, notorious, a classic — Power Politics, twenty-five years after its first publication, still negotiates with awesome presence of mind the definitions of heterosexual eros: hook and eye; fact and weapon; truth and brutality. Atwood’s terse, unsparing, and often comically incisive lines are a guided tour of the knotted Laingian underworld of a love affair. The poems are inspired and fluent. Read them and shiver.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Sharon Thesen","OtherText_Accolades_4":"Brilliant precisionist and angry lover, Margaret Atwood performs an autopsy on a love affair that’s dead but won’t lie down. I feel again the thrill and shock I experienced on first reading these ruthless and moving poems. Power Politics changed the definition of the love poem, the long poem, and, I believe, the course of Canadian poetry. It cuts like a laser beam. It goes beyond sexual politics into the dark heart of a tottering global village.","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Phyllis Webb","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eATWOOD IS HOTTER THAN EVER:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe hugely acclaimed Handmaid’s Tale television series swept the 2017 Emmy Awards, advancing a discourse on women’s rights and body politics that is becoming rather disturbingly timely given the current political climate in the U.S., and indeed, North America. Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Alias Grace, a six-part mini-series, will be launching in late September on CBC, and there is sure to be continued buzz surrounding Atwood well into the new year.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA GROUNDBREAKING AND SEMINAL WORK FROM ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST ACCLAIMED WRITERS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePower Politics opens with one of Atwood’s most famous lines – some of the most well-known in contemporary English literature: “you fit into me \/ like a hook into an eye \/ a fish hook \/ an open eye” (featured in Episode 5 of the Handmaid’s Tale series!).\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKEY TO UNDERSTANDING ATWOOD’S OEUVRE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe collection is a key testament to Atwood’s early virtuosity and is as startling now as it was at its original publication over forty-five years ago. 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This book, to those who take it straight, moves almost unwillingly, but relentlessly, through a brilliant schema of unflagging suspense and pitches of drama . . . Atwood’s poems are short, glistening with terse bright images, un-tentative, closing like a vise. These are all formed perfections.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing, Margaret Atwood.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"1996-06-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"A List","ShortDescription":"A groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing, Margaret Atwood.","Subtitle":"Poems","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Power Politics
A groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing, Margaret Atwood.
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The Sparrow
The Sparrow is a career-spanning selection of A. F. Moritz's internationally acclaimed poetry.
