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Fugue With Bedbug
The eagerly awaited second collection from acclaimed poet Anne-Marie Turza.
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Gargoyles
Bill Gaston crafts these short fictions around the idea of the gargoyle — the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions.
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{"id":6816229064763,"title":"Hellgoing","handle":"hellgoing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book and for The Globe's Top 10 Books of 2013.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Lynn Coady gives us nine unforgettable new stories, each one of them grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA young nun charged with talking an anorexic out of her religious fanaticism toys with the thin distance between practicality and blasphemy. A strange bond between a teacher and a schoolgirl takes on ever deeper, and stranger, shapes as the years progress. 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They are unique.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Jennifer Hunter","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Hellgoing is a superb collection, end to end, and easily one of the best books I’ve read so far in 2013.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEdmonton Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Michael Hingston","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“Toting their trauma, Coady’s characters repel these attacks from fathers, doctors,lovers and the legion of others that ‘know best’ by learning “to hurt and insult him aseffortlessly as he did me.” This rebellion lets Coady’s wicked wit shine, and while compassionfrom the reader is complicated by this attitude, Coady always delivers a knockout punch atthe end of each story,“ like picking at your cuticles and being surprised when they start toache and bleed.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTelegraph-Journal's Salon Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Mike Landry","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Telegraph-Journal's Salon Magazine","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“One of the hallmarks of Lynn Coady's work is her shrewd examination of the underexplored byways of human psychology.Coady is a writer who increasingly commands attention and respect” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Jeet Heer","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“It is the author's demonstrable strength as an ironist that prevents these stories- and these characters from appearing completely hopeless.[Coady's] sharp sense of humour serves to humanize even the most vicious or clueless figures in the book. 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Hellgoing
Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Coady gives us nine new stories, each grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last.
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Heydays at The June Motel
Elevate your summer entertaining with beach town classics from Heydays at The June Motel.
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I Am Ariel Sharon
I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.
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In Exile
Award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari’s deeply personal investigation of a family secret with lingering consequences.
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I couldn’t put it down.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Alison Pick, author of Between Gods and Far to Go","OtherText_Review_1":"As someone recovering from a serious illness, I related so deeply to Teva’s work. No one writes about illness like this, it was hard to stop crying (in a happy way) because I felt so understood.","OtherText_Review_10":"“Teva Harrison’s diagnosis with incurable cancer removes the expectation of an abundance of more — more dreams fulfilled, more time — but focuses her attention on the near and immediate. In this honest and raw memoir, Harrison examines and discovers, grieves, and celebrates, and takes us with her as she crafts a ragged and resonant beauty from her experience in these In-Between Days.”","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Miranda Hill, author of Sleeping Funny","OtherText_Review_11":"In her heartbreakingly honest exploration of these spaces in-between, Harrison provides a useful guide for those who cannot know the thoughts and fears of someone living with chronic illness; and for those experiencing a similar situation, the book shows that even in the most personal of journeys, you are not alone. At its heart, In-Between Days is a firm statement that joy and hope can exist in the same space as anxiety and fear; that each day we are given should be lived, as Harrison says, “With a sense of wonder and delight.”","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Michael Melgaard","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_12":"Harrison’s drawing style is more freeform than finicky, and her linework has an appealing vulnerability. But even beyond that aesthetic quality, there’s a remarkable directness to seeing vignettes from a life coloured by cancer that cuts to the quick…The results are profoundly, achingly affecting…What’s striking is, as Sontag might say, her resistance to metaphoric thinking. There’s whimsy, to be sure: the author and a friend don tails and sequins and march in a mermaid parade, and Harrison conjures childhood summers spent stargazing and having flower-petal snowball fights. But when it comes to the day-to-day details of cancer, Harrison is unflinching in her efforts to tell—and show—the straight story.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Maclean’s Magazine","OtherText_Review_13":"…an unflinchingly honest and occasionally joyful account of Harrison’s day-to-day life","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Metro News","OtherText_Review_14":"In-Between Days, a graphic novel that combines comics and short essays that explore what it is like to live with incurable cancer, is, all at once, heartbreaking and heartwarming, revealing and honest, all the while showcasing how beautiful and unfair life can be","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Canadian Jewish News","OtherText_Review_15":"There are many books about living with cancer, and then there is Teva Harrison's, \"In-Between Days\"","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"CBC Metro Morning","OtherText_Review_16":"Inspiring, eye-opening and darkly funny, In-Between Days runs the emotional gamut, with comic strips so sharp they feel like a punch to the heart.","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"CBC Books “How I Wrote It\"","OtherText_Review_17":"In-Between Days offers a fresh perspective, approaching a topic that has inspired so many sad stories with an unexpected vibrancy.","OtherText_Review_17_Auth":"Lauren Scott","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Rabble","OtherText_Review_18":"Every tale of illness… has the potential to transform a personal story into a universal lesson. Teva Harrison’s In-Between Days lives up to that potential, and then some…beautiful and often arresting…","OtherText_Review_18_Auth":"Peter Kavanagh","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_19":"raw, brilliant, thought-provoking, and very disquieting","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kathleen Hanna, artist, musician (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, The Julie Ruin), and feminist activist","OtherText_Review_2":"There’s no real preparation for how hard Teva Harrison’s stunning graphic novel will hit you. It doesn’t humanize the disease — that would be banal — and it doesn’t aggrandize the journey — that would be self-help bunk. Rather, it portrays the process as something achingly human, a daily tumult of stuff that roughly amounts to survival. Teva Harrison has stared into the abyss. And what has stared back but love?","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Richard Poplak, author of Ja No Man","OtherText_Review_3":"Teva’s art and reflections powerfully capture the struggles of being young and facing the certain, yet uncertain end of your life. May we all be this honest with ourselves as we deal with life’s challenges. Inspiring, insightful, contemplative, thank you Teva.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Geoff Eaton, Executive Director, Young Adult Cancer Canada","OtherText_Review_4":"How does a person live with meaning — and joy — in the face of a terminal cancer diagnosis? Teva Harrison answers this question with pitch-perfect honesty and clarity, even when delving into her own complex contradictions. From Harrison’s rigorous honesty comes wisdom. In-Between Days is a beautiful offering. This book fills my heart. The world is lucky to have Teva Harrison. She truly knows how to live, and to love.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Angie Abdou, author of Between","OtherText_Review_5":"With great wisdom, Teva Harrison understands that her cancer doesn’t make her special. But this book certainly does. Through her art and her words, we are reminded of the power of creativity, and that hope for the future is an essentially creative act.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Andrew Westoll, author of The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary","OtherText_Review_6":"Teva Harrison is a metastatic voice that I believe is breaking through. By using humour and creativity to draw people in to a challenging topic, Teva is expanding the breast cancer conversation and shedding light on the complexities and nuances of the disease. I believe In-Between Days will help improve public understanding as well as empower and support others dealing with metastatic breast cancer. Beautifully done.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"MJ DeCoteau, Founder and Executive Director of ReThink Breast Cancer","OtherText_Review_7":"Heartbreaking. Profound. Sly and brutal and funny and crushing. Teva Harrison’s In-Between Days is one of the most stunning memoirs I've ever read. Teva’s taught me it’s not about the number of days left to us. It’s about living them completely.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Joseph Boyden","OtherText_Review_8":"With insight and honesty, Teva Harrison invites us to join her on this deeply personal, beautifully expressed journey with cancer. Through this remarkable book, we encounter awkward ironies, the quietly harrowing reality of our mortal human condition, and moments of distilled life and beauty. Wryly unflinching in her examination of her condition, its treatment, and herself, Teva shares with us the gift that emerges from her in-between days.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Vincent Lam","OtherText_Review_9":"Teva Harrison’s memoir is a frank, moving, powerfully minimalist yet deceptively complex work of art. With seemingly simple, but ingeniously pared-down strokes, Harrison bestows upon her readers the gift of complete empathy. Without forcing a thing she makes her readers FEEL how she feels — it’s remarkable! — and by the end of this powerful shared experience, by allowing her readers into her heart and mind, she occupies with us both our present and future. We’re all in great shape, we realize thanks to Harrison, as living, feeling, loving human beings.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Guy Maddin","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Teva Harrison’s In-Between Days is an inspiring graphic memoir about living with cancer.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Literary Award","PrizeName_1":"Kobo Emerging Writers Prize for Nonfiction","PrizeName_2":"Joe Shuster Award","PrizeYear_0":"2016","PrizeYear_1":"2017","PrizeYear_2":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2016-04-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Teva Harrison’s In-Between Days is an inspiring graphic memoir about living with cancer.","Subtitle":"A Memoir About Living with Cancer","Width":"6.88","WidthCode":"in"}
In-Between Days
Teva Harrison’s In-Between Days is an inspiring graphic memoir about living with cancer.
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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487003463","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487005924","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487003463","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487005924","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770898196","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY\/Canadian","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBARDIA SINAEE\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives in Toronto. He is the author of the chapbooks \u003cem\u003eBlue Night Express\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Salamander Festival\u003c\/em\u003e. His poems have also appeared in magazines across Canada and in several editions of\u003cem\u003e Best Canadian Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2012 his poem “Barnacle Goose Ballad” was Reader’s Choice winner for The Walrus Poetry Prize, and in 2020 he was co-winner of the \u003cem\u003eCapilano Review\u003c\/em\u003e’s Robin Blaser Award. 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His first collection is sure to be an enormous draw to those already familiar with his impressive body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/prismmagazine.ca\/2020\/01\/14\/58-2-teaser-get-to-know-bardia-sinaee\/\"\u003ehttp:\/\/prismmagazine.ca\/2020\/01\/14\/58-2-teaser-get-to-know-bardia-sinaee\/\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePOEMS AT THE HEART OF CONTEMPORARY CONCERNS: \u003c\/strong\u003eBardia’s poetry touches on urban life, health and sickness, xenophobia, and migration. These are poems that speak to the modern world in all its difficulties and complexities, appealing to readers of Danez Smith and Rae Armantrout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTIMELY WRITING ON COVID-19: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntruder\u003c\/em\u003e will be one of the first published poetry collections to respond to the COVID-19 epidemic, both its personal and global impacts. 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Intruder
In Intruder, acclaimed poet Bardia Sinaee explores with vivid and precise language themes of encroachment in contemporary life.
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{"id":6818955984955,"title":"Little Theatres","handle":"little-theatres","description":"\u003cp\u003eErin Moure is one of the most consistently innovative, radically imaginative poets at work in Canada. With each book, Moure seeks to re-create writing from the ground up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e appears at a pressing historical crossroads, when we most need our language to be made restive again. Like the agua\/water running through the collection -- at once lingual exchange, submersion, balm, and sustenance -- Moure's voices are as fluid, clear, animated, and shimmering with light and life as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGalician and English intermingle in this collection like currents of the same river. How can we open the infinitely small spaces of \u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e in our own lives? Can they take the place of war? And who, exactly, writes them? Erin Moure? The unjustly ignored thinker Elisa Sampedrin? Or a speaker inside us finally willing to give \u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e its due attention? An intimate act of cultural and personal interflow, this work from a major poet has the power to alter our perception of where, and on what scale, the action is taking place.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T14:15:32-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T13:35:10-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Poetry","By (author) Moure Erín","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2005-04-01"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1695,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40249436962875,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887847288","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Little Theatres - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1695,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887847288","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6bc4d203-f0d8-4944-a72b-250bf7a98069.jpg?v=1682245583"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6bc4d203-f0d8-4944-a72b-250bf7a98069.jpg?v=1682245583","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23431558725691,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.735,"height":539,"width":396,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6bc4d203-f0d8-4944-a72b-250bf7a98069.jpg?v=1682245583"},"aspect_ratio":0.735,"height":539,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6bc4d203-f0d8-4944-a72b-250bf7a98069.jpg?v=1682245583","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eErin Moure is one of the most consistently innovative, radically imaginative poets at work in Canada. With each book, Moure seeks to re-create writing from the ground up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e appears at a pressing historical crossroads, when we most need our language to be made restive again. Like the agua\/water running through the collection -- at once lingual exchange, submersion, balm, and sustenance -- Moure's voices are as fluid, clear, animated, and shimmering with light and life as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGalician and English intermingle in this collection like currents of the same river. How can we open the infinitely small spaces of \u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e in our own lives? Can they take the place of war? And who, exactly, writes them? Erin Moure? The unjustly ignored thinker Elisa Sampedrin? Or a speaker inside us finally willing to give \u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e its due attention? An intimate act of cultural and personal interflow, this work from a major poet has the power to alter our perception of where, and on what scale, the action is taking place.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Little Theatres
Moure's poetic voices are as fluid, clear, animated, and shimmering with light and life as ever.
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Mai at the Predators' Ball
The fifth in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. In this vibrant novel, we enter the lives of unforgettable characters, some familiar from previous works and some new.
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Mean
Ken Babstock's award-winning debut collection captures our isolation and reconnects us.
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Methodist Hatchet
The exhilarating fourth collection from one of Canada’s most talented poets, Governor General’s Literary Award winner Ken Babstock.
