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{"id":7348969537595,"title":"The Polymers","handle":"the-polymers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Polymers\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold new work from one of our most ambitious poetic minds. Structured as an imaginary science project, the varied pieces in this collection investigate the intersection of poetry and chemicals, specifically plastics, attempting to understand their essential role in culture. Through various procedures, constraints, and formal mutations, the poems express the repeating structures fundamental to plastic molecules as they appear in cultural and linguistic behaviours such as arguments, anxieties, and trends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA wildly experimental and chemically reactive work, \u003cem\u003eThe Polymers\u003c\/em\u003e thrills and provokes. You’ll never look at the world of a poem — or the world itself — in the same way again.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-02-20T17:01:04-05:00","created_at":"2025-02-20T16:53:45-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Dickinson Adam","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2013-04-13"],"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":42024738881595,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892170","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Polymers - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":218,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770892170","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f2451b54-dce5-488f-a930-b65ad58d30bf.jpg?v=1740088443"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f2451b54-dce5-488f-a930-b65ad58d30bf.jpg?v=1740088443","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":25135675179067,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.654,"height":612,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f2451b54-dce5-488f-a930-b65ad58d30bf.jpg?v=1740088443"},"aspect_ratio":0.654,"height":612,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f2451b54-dce5-488f-a930-b65ad58d30bf.jpg?v=1740088443","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Polymers\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold new work from one of our most ambitious poetic minds. Structured as an imaginary science project, the varied pieces in this collection investigate the intersection of poetry and chemicals, specifically plastics, attempting to understand their essential role in culture. Through various procedures, constraints, and formal mutations, the poems express the repeating structures fundamental to plastic molecules as they appear in cultural and linguistic behaviours such as arguments, anxieties, and trends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA wildly experimental and chemically reactive work, \u003cem\u003eThe Polymers\u003c\/em\u003e thrills and provokes. You’ll never look at the world of a poem — or the world itself — in the same way again.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Polymers
The Polymers is a bold work from one of our most ambitious poetic minds.
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{"id":7267105701947,"title":"Hanns and Rudolf","handle":"hanns-and-rudolf","description":"\u003cp\u003ePart history, part biography, part true crime, \u003cem\u003eHanns and Rudolf\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles the untold story of the Jewish investigator who pursued and captured one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war criminals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMay 1945. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. One of the lead investigators is Lieutenant Hanns Alexander, a German Jew now serving in the British Army. Rudolf Höss is his most elusive target. As Kommandant of Auschwitz, Höss not only oversaw the murder of more than one million men, women, and children, but he perfected Hitler’s programme of mass extermination. 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Hanns and Rudolf
The untold story of the Jewish investigator who pursued and captured one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war criminals.
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Kiss the Undertow
The disturbing story of a swimmer navigating the abuse of her body and mind as she trains for competition, exploring the nature of power and will.
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The Ambitious City
In the second installment of the MacNeice Mysteries series, Det. MacNeice faces off against a gang of violent bikers and a bloodthirsty serial killer.
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The Couturier of Milan
In the ninth installment of the bestselling Ava Lee series, Ava investigates the dark side of the glamorous world of fashion.
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Roguelike special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Mathew Henderson's poetry collection Roguelike is limited to 40 copies.
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A wry, savvy novel of untidy modern relationships and a chronicle of contemporary middle-class mores.
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George Grant's searching exploration of the meaning of justice in a society dominated by technology is a classic in Canadian thought.
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Erin Moure explores the limits of our notions of language, and plays with the power of words to convey meaning or intelligibility.
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{"id":6819003695163,"title":"Crowd of Sounds","handle":"crowd-of-sounds","description":"Once in a long while a lyric poet comes along whose technique, emotional pitch, and intellect combine in sublime balance and take poetry to a new level. Witness Adam Sol.\n\nSol's work is exhilarating in its range. Here he is gentle and mournful, attuned to his surroundings, and suddenly over here he mounts a sneak attack and hits us with erotic joy, erotic threat, history, elegy, comic absurdity, and acts of disturbing ventriloquism somehow stitching it all together with a tightly scored thematic coherence.\n\nFor once our eyes are not our first concern, Sol writes, and in poem after poem, as he conducts jay, wasp, streetcar, busker, and lover's breath, he awakens our listening. These poems are about music but they are also about the silence it breaks, and the inevitable recurrence of that silence.","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:32-05:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T15:36:44-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Poetry","By (author) Sol Adam","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2003-04-01"],"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":40249577111611,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887846885","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Crowd of Sounds - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":118,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887846885","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a9573a09-5df2-43cc-bd78-243304677c81.jpg?v=1678596676"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a9573a09-5df2-43cc-bd78-243304677c81.jpg?v=1678596676","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324495183931,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"width":396,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a9573a09-5df2-43cc-bd78-243304677c81.jpg?v=1678596676"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a9573a09-5df2-43cc-bd78-243304677c81.jpg?v=1678596676","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"Once in a long while a lyric poet comes along whose technique, emotional pitch, and intellect combine in sublime balance and take poetry to a new level. Witness Adam Sol.\n\nSol's work is exhilarating in its range. Here he is gentle and mournful, attuned to his surroundings, and suddenly over here he mounts a sneak attack and hits us with erotic joy, erotic threat, history, elegy, comic absurdity, and acts of disturbing ventriloquism somehow stitching it all together with a tightly scored thematic coherence.\n\nFor once our eyes are not our first concern, Sol writes, and in poem after poem, as he conducts jay, wasp, streetcar, busker, and lover's breath, he awakens our listening. These poems are about music but they are also about the silence it breaks, and the inevitable recurrence of that silence."}
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Crowd of Sounds
Adam Sol's sublime poems are about music, but they are also about the silence it breaks, and the inevitable recurrence of that silence.
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{"id":6818979020859,"title":"The Address Book","handle":"the-address-book","description":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Award-finalist Steven Heighton employs his signature blend of emotional fierceness and linguistic beauty to tap into \"This whim \/ against what drifts to dark.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress where music and intelligence are the last guard against wind walls of real grief. Elegiac, angry, tender, and brazenly heart-felt, these poems achieve their effect through total conviction; a complete immersion in the rich palette of human emotions — comfortable and otherwise. The collection's second half includes the author's versions from Western poetry's sustaining giants, including Beaudelaire, Rimbaud, Sappho, Catullus, Homer, and Rilke.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T15:33:47-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T14:20:38-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Heighton Steven","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2004-02-23"],"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":40249494700091,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887846984","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Address Book - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":127,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887846984","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22140950118459,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":608,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805"},"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":608,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Award-finalist Steven Heighton employs his signature blend of emotional fierceness and linguistic beauty to tap into \"This whim \/ against what drifts to dark.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress where music and intelligence are the last guard against wind walls of real grief. Elegiac, angry, tender, and brazenly heart-felt, these poems achieve their effect through total conviction; a complete immersion in the rich palette of human emotions — comfortable and otherwise. The collection's second half includes the author's versions from Western poetry's sustaining giants, including Beaudelaire, Rimbaud, Sappho, Catullus, Homer, and Rilke.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Address Book
A collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress.
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Past Imperfect
Suzanne Buffam's debut poetry collection admits the self is fluid -- so we bid farewell to many "selves."
