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{"id":6814263050299,"title":"The Corpses of the Future","handle":"the-corpses-of-the-future","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn her first poetry collection in more than a decade, celebrated novelist and poet Lynn Crosbie creates a sustained and confessional record of her father’s illness.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Corpses of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e is a sustained, confessional new collection of poems by Lynn Crosbie. It tells the story of her father’s battle with frontotemporal dementia and blindness following a stroke. The poems chronologically recount the poet’s conversations and time with her father and capture his still-astonishing means of communicating. The book’s title is his sardonic remark. Crosbie considers dementia to be a symbolic language, and as such similar to poetry. The author’s attempts to understand her father’s distress, pain, fear, and brave love are assisted by her understanding of the “negative capability” required of readers of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a harrowing book, with moments of joy and even levity. It is a collection of poetry about love, and love’s persistence, even under the most unspeakable circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T09:40:40-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:27:46-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Crosbie Lynn","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2017-04-08"],"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":40206695104571,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000905","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Corpses of the Future - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":260,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487000905","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2e38a65d-cdc8-411b-8039-37a235e1b13c.jpg?v=1678601472"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2e38a65d-cdc8-411b-8039-37a235e1b13c.jpg?v=1678601472","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324561506363,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2e38a65d-cdc8-411b-8039-37a235e1b13c.jpg?v=1678601472"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2e38a65d-cdc8-411b-8039-37a235e1b13c.jpg?v=1678601472","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn her first poetry collection in more than a decade, celebrated novelist and poet Lynn Crosbie creates a sustained and confessional record of her father’s illness.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Corpses of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e is a sustained, confessional new collection of poems by Lynn Crosbie. It tells the story of her father’s battle with frontotemporal dementia and blindness following a stroke. The poems chronologically recount the poet’s conversations and time with her father and capture his still-astonishing means of communicating. The book’s title is his sardonic remark. Crosbie considers dementia to be a symbolic language, and as such similar to poetry. The author’s attempts to understand her father’s distress, pain, fear, and brave love are assisted by her understanding of the “negative capability” required of readers of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a harrowing book, with moments of joy and even levity. It is a collection of poetry about love, and love’s persistence, even under the most unspeakable circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Corpses of the Future
A powerful collection of poems by Lynn Crosbie that tells the story of her father’s battle with frontotemporal dementia and blindness, following a stroke.
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{"id":6814259413051,"title":"The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology","handle":"the-2017-griffin-poetry-prize-anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eEach year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has tremendously spurred interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English and works in translation. Each year \u003cem\u003eThe Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e features the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoyalties generated from The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology will be donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, which was created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlist announced: April 11, 2017\u003cbr\u003eReadings: June 7, 2017\u003cbr\u003ePrizes awarded: June 8, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T09:40:34-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:26:35-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Edited by Goyette Sue","Edited by Naviyuk Kane Joan","Edited by Szirtes George","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2017-06-03","The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology"],"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":40206690484283,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002329","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":240,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487002329","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ca7771cc-57c0-4d7f-9852-43dba5039600.jpg?v=1655627589"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ca7771cc-57c0-4d7f-9852-43dba5039600.jpg?v=1655627589","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22243458777147,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.672,"height":2550,"width":1713,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ca7771cc-57c0-4d7f-9852-43dba5039600.jpg?v=1655627589"},"aspect_ratio":0.672,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ca7771cc-57c0-4d7f-9852-43dba5039600.jpg?v=1655627589","width":1713}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eEach year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has tremendously spurred interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English and works in translation. Each year \u003cem\u003eThe Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e features the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoyalties generated from The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology will be donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, which was created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlist announced: April 11, 2017\u003cbr\u003eReadings: June 7, 2017\u003cbr\u003ePrizes awarded: June 8, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
The highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry.
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{"id":6813804396603,"title":"Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit special hardcover edition","handle":"unstable-neighbourhood-rabbit-special-hardcover-edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOneiric, fabulist, hilarious, surreal. No single term seems to sufficiently contain Mikko Harvey’s delightful, cheeky, absurdist, inimitable debut poetry collection. This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Mikko Harvey's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bomb and a raindrop make small talk as they fall through the air; a visit to the phlebotomist evolves into a nightmarish party; a boy notices himself turning into a piano key. Reading \u003cem\u003eUnstable Neighbourhood Rabbit\u003c\/em\u003e is like spending the day at a strange amusement park. At first the rides appear familiar—then you realize they possess the power to not only thrill and terrify, but destabilize your very notion of amusement. These poems veer sharply away from what’s normally expected of poetry, instead bringing readers to that darkened, awkward, interior space where we are free to be most ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-23T13:02:46-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T09:24:37-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","By (author) Harvey Mikko","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2018-04-03"],"price":3500,"price_min":3500,"price_max":3500,"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":40205723566139,"title":"hardcover special edition","option1":"hardcover special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003616","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit special hardcover edition - hardcover special edition","public_title":"hardcover special edition","options":["hardcover special edition"],"price":3500,"weight":120,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487003616","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_1adc7d8c-f2b1-489c-ba7a-ea310f0befec.jpg?v=1705996393"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_1adc7d8c-f2b1-489c-ba7a-ea310f0befec.jpg?v=1705996393","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24126690885691,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.504,"height":1000,"width":1504,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_1adc7d8c-f2b1-489c-ba7a-ea310f0befec.jpg?v=1705996393"},"aspect_ratio":1.504,"height":1000,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_1adc7d8c-f2b1-489c-ba7a-ea310f0befec.jpg?v=1705996393","width":1504}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOneiric, fabulist, hilarious, surreal. No single term seems to sufficiently contain Mikko Harvey’s delightful, cheeky, absurdist, inimitable debut poetry collection. This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Mikko Harvey's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bomb and a raindrop make small talk as they fall through the air; a visit to the phlebotomist evolves into a nightmarish party; a boy notices himself turning into a piano key. Reading \u003cem\u003eUnstable Neighbourhood Rabbit\u003c\/em\u003e is like spending the day at a strange amusement park. At first the rides appear familiar—then you realize they possess the power to not only thrill and terrify, but destabilize your very notion of amusement. These poems veer sharply away from what’s normally expected of poetry, instead bringing readers to that darkened, awkward, interior space where we are free to be most ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Mikko Harvey's poetry collection Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit is limited to 50 copies.
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{"id":6813803511867,"title":"Stereoblind","handle":"stereoblind","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaunching off from subjects as varied as Tinder and animal testing, Emma Healey’s provocative collection of prose poems explores the urgent themes of feminism, mental illness, sexuality, artistic practice, alienation, connection, technology, and time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStereoblind\u003c\/i\u003e, no single thing is ever perceived in just one way. Shot through with asymmetry and misconception, the prose poems in Emma Healey’s second collection describe a world that’s anxious and skewed, but still somehow familiar — where the past, present, and future overlap, facts are not always true, borders are not always solid, and events seem to write themselves into being. An on-again, off-again real estate sale nudges a quartet of millennial renters into an alternate universe of multiplying signs and wonders; an art show at Ontario Place may or may not be as strange and complex (or even as “real”) as described; the collusion of a hangover and a blizzard carry our narrator on a trancelike odyssey through Bed Bath \u0026amp;Beyond. Using a diverse range of subjects — from pharmaceutical research testing to Tinder — to form an inventory of ontological disturbance, Healey delves into moments when the differences between things disappear, and life exceeds its limits. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-23T13:02:45-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T09:24:18-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Healey Emma","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2018-04-03"],"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":40205721665595,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003814","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Stereoblind - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487003814","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2abcd58f-9ff8-4e74-a300-1f0b440fa2db.jpg?v=1654445658"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2abcd58f-9ff8-4e74-a300-1f0b440fa2db.jpg?v=1654445658","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22170997194811,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2abcd58f-9ff8-4e74-a300-1f0b440fa2db.jpg?v=1654445658"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2abcd58f-9ff8-4e74-a300-1f0b440fa2db.jpg?v=1654445658","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaunching off from subjects as varied as Tinder and animal testing, Emma Healey’s provocative collection of prose poems explores the urgent themes of feminism, mental illness, sexuality, artistic practice, alienation, connection, technology, and time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStereoblind\u003c\/i\u003e, no single thing is ever perceived in just one way. Shot through with asymmetry and misconception, the prose poems in Emma Healey’s second collection describe a world that’s anxious and skewed, but still somehow familiar — where the past, present, and future overlap, facts are not always true, borders are not always solid, and events seem to write themselves into being. An on-again, off-again real estate sale nudges a quartet of millennial renters into an alternate universe of multiplying signs and wonders; an art show at Ontario Place may or may not be as strange and complex (or even as “real”) as described; the collusion of a hangover and a blizzard carry our narrator on a trancelike odyssey through Bed Bath \u0026amp;Beyond. Using a diverse range of subjects — from pharmaceutical research testing to Tinder — to form an inventory of ontological disturbance, Healey delves into moments when the differences between things disappear, and life exceeds its limits. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Stereoblind
Emma Healey’s provocative collection of prose poems explores the urgent themes of feminism, mental illness, sexuality and artistic practice.
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The 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
The annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry, edited by Ian Williams, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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The evocative truth and the crystalline ring of his words, line by line, make a kind of hope in themselves.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"W.S. Merwin, author of the Pulitzer Prize winner The Shadow of Sirius","OtherText_Accolades_1":"An inter-genre tour de force, The Long Take is a restless reimagining of conventional poetics. Through the poem’s protagonist, Robertson has cast a national, cultural, psychological, and class outsider of vibrant and seedy post-war America into a palpable anti-hero eerily resonant with our contemporary world. With syncopated rhythms, staccato dialogue, and jump-scenes, the book weaves dizzying, jazz-like meditations on PTSD, masculinity, betrayal, and salvation by embodying, in sound, scent, and sixth-sense, one of America’s most hopeful and devastating decades. The result is a ravishing achievement.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Ocean Vuong, author of the T.S. 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The Long Take is a masterly work of art, exciting, colourful, fast-paced — the old-time movie reviewer’s vocabulary is apt to the case — and almost unbearably moving.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_2":"As a work of art, this dreamlike exploration is a triumph; as a timely allegory, it is disturbingly profound . . . Robertson’s The Long Take is one of the first major achievements of twenty-first-century English-language literature.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Financial Times","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e offers a wholly unique literary voice and form. A verse novel with photographs, it manages to evoke with exceptional vividness aspects of post-World War Two history that are rarely parsed together. Swinging effortlessly between combat with its traumatic aftermath, and the brute redevelopment of American cities, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e shows us the ravages of capitalism as a continuation of war-time violence by other means. It is also a bold, eloquent homage to cinema as perhaps the only medium in which the true history of America has been preserved. This is a genre-defying novel. Cutting from battlefield to building demolitions in San Francisco and LA, to the killing of black men on the streets of America today, it imports into the very form of the writing one of the most famous film techniques: cross-cutting. You could be in the cinema, or listening to an elegy, or reading the story of one man’s devastating experience as he tries to rebuild the shards of his life after the war. A pageant of loss, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e is also a lyrical tribute to the power of writing and image to convey, and somehow survive, historic and ongoing suffering and injustice.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Man Booker Prize Judges’ Citation","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the inner journey of Canadian veteran Walker as he travels from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco attempting to rebuild his life after living through the horrors of war in Europe. In poetry of the utmost beauty, Robin Robertson interweaves themes from the great age of black and white films, the destruction of communities as cities destroy the old to build the new, the horrors of McCarthyism and the terrible psychological wounds left by war. Robertson shows us things we’d rather not see and asks us to face things we’d rather not face. 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With its undeniable beauty; quiet, modest but strong pull, this book will shift something in your soul. By the time you have finished reading it, you won't quite be the same.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Goldsmiths Prize Judges’ Citation","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e remarkably captures linguistic styles of 1940s American writing — Saroyan and Steinbeck. As it progresses into the mid-50s we’re hearing Ginsberg and Baldwin … you will be washed in all these when you read this poem … Robertson has chosen a supremely uncomfortable, recognizable flashpoint in U.S. history, an almost perfect mirror image of the nation today: crude, newly unleashed material ambitions mix with off-the-chart levels of fear and paranoia. The only difference is that then it was Russkies and immigrants, and now, uh …\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Sunday Herald","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The Long Take is a noir tale that follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_3":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_4":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_5":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeCode_3":"04","PrizeCode_4":"03","PrizeCode_5":"04","PrizeName_0":"Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction","PrizeName_1":"Roehampton Poetry Prize","PrizeName_2":"Goldsmiths Prize","PrizeName_3":"Man Booker Prize","PrizeName_4":"An Economist Book of the Year","PrizeName_5":"Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award","PrizeYear_0":"2018","PrizeYear_1":"2018","PrizeYear_2":"2018","PrizeYear_3":"2018","PrizeYear_4":"2018","PrizeYear_5":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-10-30","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The Long Take is a noir tale that follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
The Long Take
The Long Take is a noir tale that follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.
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Waterloo Express
The remarkable debut poetry collection from renowned bestselling novelist and Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet Paulette Jiles.
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As Far As You Know
From one of the defining poets of his generation, a collection that plumbs the depth of beauty, history, responsibility, and love.
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This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Kevin Connolly's poetry collection Xiphoid Process is limited to 50 copies.
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{"id":6582756081723,"title":"Queen Rat","handle":"queen-rat","description":"Poet, novelist, and journalist, Lynn Crosbie brings her unique voice to the forefront of the Canadian poetry canon with this important collection of verse. Hers is a world of Shakespeare, skinheads and centurions; and hers is a life stripped down to the basics and then reconstructed, slowly, with relish, every brick scrutinized meticulously.\n\nIn Queen Rat her language is urban, but her soul is universal as she explores that which makes up everything.","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:13:52-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:13:52-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Crosbie Lynn","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 1998-10-01"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1695,"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":39403461443643,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890909","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Queen Rat - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770890909","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413680275515,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898325","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Queen Rat - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":191,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770898325","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fc2bfabf-7d98-4fa6-b849-518f52c30dc7.jpg?v=1723949365"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fc2bfabf-7d98-4fa6-b849-518f52c30dc7.jpg?v=1723949365","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24743101628475,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":638,"width":413,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fc2bfabf-7d98-4fa6-b849-518f52c30dc7.jpg?v=1723949365"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":638,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fc2bfabf-7d98-4fa6-b849-518f52c30dc7.jpg?v=1723949365","width":413}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"Poet, novelist, and journalist, Lynn Crosbie brings her unique voice to the forefront of the Canadian poetry canon with this important collection of verse. Hers is a world of Shakespeare, skinheads and centurions; and hers is a life stripped down to the basics and then reconstructed, slowly, with relish, every brick scrutinized meticulously.\n\nIn Queen Rat her language is urban, but her soul is universal as she explores that which makes up everything."}
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In this collection Lynn Crosbie strips life bare, then rebuilds it from the pieces of a visceral, urban language.
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{"id":6582755360827,"title":"The Polymers special hardcover edition","handle":"the-polymers-special-hardcover-edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Adam Dickinson's poetry collection The Polymers is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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":"2021-05-13T13:13:42-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:13:42-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","By (author) Dickinson Adam","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2013-04-13"],"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":39403460722747,"title":"hardcover special edition","option1":"hardcover special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770893498","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The Polymers special hardcover edition - hardcover special edition","public_title":"hardcover special edition","options":["hardcover special edition"],"price":1995,"weight":218,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770893498","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_f21d3de7-f063-4af6-b556-5ddf83a323e3.jpg?v=1678604219"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_f21d3de7-f063-4af6-b556-5ddf83a323e3.jpg?v=1678604219","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324581101627,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":3409,"width":2727,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_f21d3de7-f063-4af6-b556-5ddf83a323e3.jpg?v=1678604219"},"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":3409,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_f21d3de7-f063-4af6-b556-5ddf83a323e3.jpg?v=1678604219","width":2727}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Adam Dickinson's poetry collection The Polymers is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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 special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Adam Dickinson's poetry collection The Polymers is limited to 50 copies.
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For Tamara special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Sarah Lang's poetry collection For Tamara is limited to 50 copies.
