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The Caiplie Caves
The Caiplie Caves interrogates violence, economies, self-delusion, and belief in poems that orbit the Caves of Caiplie on the coast of Scotland.
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Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person
This ecstatic long poem of hope and creeks and cats and rain is a translation of Alberto Caeiro/Fernando Pessoa's classic long poem O Guardador de Rebanhos.
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Pigeon
Karen Solie's poems are X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions, explorations of violence, bad luck, fate, and creeping catastrophe.
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Congotronic
The second collection from Canadian poet and filmmaker Shane Book.
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Heart Residence
A landmark collection from one of Canada’s literary icons, and the co-founder of House of Anansi Press.
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{"id":6813806657595,"title":"Power Politics","handle":"power-politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing and prophetic author of \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, Margaret Atwood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood’s \u003ci\u003ePower Politics\u003c\/i\u003e startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple, universal. Clear, direct, wry, and unrelenting — Atwood’s poetic powers are honed to perfection in this seminal work from her early career.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-23T13:02:49-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T09:25:42-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","Adult Poetry","By (author) Atwood Margaret","Feminist Reads","Introduction by Zwicky Jan","pub date: 2018-03-06"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"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":40205725990971,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487004552","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Power Politics - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":100,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487004552","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205976469563,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849121","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Power Politics - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887849121","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205977157691,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897366","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Power Politics - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897366","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_de5d8510-3276-48d9-a696-e547dc2abcbf.jpg?v=1678600256"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_de5d8510-3276-48d9-a696-e547dc2abcbf.jpg?v=1678600256","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324551970875,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_de5d8510-3276-48d9-a696-e547dc2abcbf.jpg?v=1678600256"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_de5d8510-3276-48d9-a696-e547dc2abcbf.jpg?v=1678600256","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing and prophetic author of \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, Margaret Atwood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood’s \u003ci\u003ePower Politics\u003c\/i\u003e startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple, universal. Clear, direct, wry, and unrelenting — Atwood’s poetic powers are honed to perfection in this seminal work from her early career.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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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. 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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.","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":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-03-06","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.
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{"id":6812119990331,"title":"Stilt Jack","handle":"stilt-jack","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe much-loved, yet undervalued, final book of poems by British-Canadian poet John Thompson, is reissued in a handsome edition, featuring a new introduction by Rob Winger.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1978, \u003ci\u003eStilt Jack \u003c\/i\u003eis a series of powerful soliloquies on the complexity of love and the process of living. These are made immediate through Thompson’s command of metaphor, his eye for the New Brunswick landscape, his intense, often elliptical way of transfiguring everyday things into shorthand symbols of reality. This remarkable sequence of poems is based on the \u003ci\u003eghazal\u003c\/i\u003e, an ancient Persian poetic form which is discussed in Thompson’s introduction to the original edition of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems more than fulfill the promise of Thompson’s first collection, \u003ci\u003eAt the Edge of the Chopping There Are No Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eStilt Jack \u003c\/i\u003eis the last testament of a major poet at the pinnacle of his craft.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-22T16:27:43-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-22T11:24:33-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","Adult Poetry","By (author) Thompson John","Introduction by Winger Rob","pub date: 2019-04-16"],"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":40195633905723,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006662","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Stilt Jack - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1695,"weight":100,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487006662","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40196002381883,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006716","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Stilt Jack - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487006716","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40196004249659,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006723","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Stilt Jack - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487006723","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_134e0fa6-aff6-4e6f-aeb7-14e782da05d9.jpg?v=1727574207"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_134e0fa6-aff6-4e6f-aeb7-14e782da05d9.jpg?v=1727574207","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24827555741755,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_134e0fa6-aff6-4e6f-aeb7-14e782da05d9.jpg?v=1727574207"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_134e0fa6-aff6-4e6f-aeb7-14e782da05d9.jpg?v=1727574207","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe much-loved, yet undervalued, final book of poems by British-Canadian poet John Thompson, is reissued in a handsome edition, featuring a new introduction by Rob Winger.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1978, \u003ci\u003eStilt Jack \u003c\/i\u003eis a series of powerful soliloquies on the complexity of love and the process of living. These are made immediate through Thompson’s command of metaphor, his eye for the New Brunswick landscape, his intense, often elliptical way of transfiguring everyday things into shorthand symbols of reality. This remarkable sequence of poems is based on the \u003ci\u003eghazal\u003c\/i\u003e, an ancient Persian poetic form which is discussed in Thompson’s introduction to the original edition of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems more than fulfill the promise of Thompson’s first collection, \u003ci\u003eAt the Edge of the Chopping There Are No Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eStilt Jack \u003c\/i\u003eis the last testament of a major poet at the pinnacle of his craft.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Born and raised in Ontario, Rob currently lives in the hills northeast of Toronto, where he teaches at Trent University.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Introduction by","Contributor_0":"Thompson, John (CA)","Contributor_1":"Winger, Rob","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe much-loved, yet undervalued, final book of poems by British-Canadian poet John Thompson, is reissued in a handsome edition, featuring a new introduction by Rob Winger.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1978, \u003ci\u003eStilt Jack \u003c\/i\u003eis a series of powerful soliloquies on the complexity of love and the process of living. These are made immediate through Thompson’s command of metaphor, his eye for the New Brunswick landscape, his intense, often elliptical way of transfiguring everyday things into shorthand symbols of reality. This remarkable sequence of poems is based on the \u003ci\u003eghazal\u003c\/i\u003e, an ancient Persian poetic form which is discussed in Thompson’s introduction to the original edition of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems more than fulfill the promise of Thompson’s first collection, \u003ci\u003eAt the Edge of the Chopping There Are No Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eStilt Jack \u003c\/i\u003eis the last testament of a major poet at the pinnacle of his craft.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487006662","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487006662\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"A List","MetaKeywords":"ghazal; despair; couplets; celebration; death; suicide note; mental illness; alcoholism; Mount Allison University; loneliness; 20th century poet; New Brunswick; primitive; chaotic; poetry; poetic form; CanLit; free verse","NumberOfPages":"80","OtherText_Accolades_0":"In the last years of his life, apparently, John Thompson craved a poetry of extremis, of damnation. That implacable mystique has taken hold of poets from Baudelaire to John Berryman; Thompson’s surrender to it, in Stilt Jack, is an arresting performance of the part. And a deeply troubling one.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Dennis Lee","OtherText_Accolades_1":"A world of essence, primitive and chaotic, made of earth, air, fire, and waters . . . spilt blood, split woods; cries, horses, fish; Anabasis half begun, half finished in the New Brunswick woods . . . Poetry so unique as to be beyond ‘originality.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"A.J.M. 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But this book truly deserves to be presented in its own volume.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA TRUE CLASSIC OF CANADIAN POETRY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis collection continues to be circulated privately amongst poets and influences new writers, and introduced a free-verse version of an ancient form into the mainstream. 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(It had been reprinted in the 1990s in \u003cem\u003eI dream myself into being\u003c\/em\u003e [Anansi], which also contained Thompson’s first book; and it's included in the Goose Lane publication of Thompson’s \u003cem\u003eCollected\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Peter Sanger.) But this book truly deserves to be presented in its own volume.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA TRUE CLASSIC OF CANADIAN POETRY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis collection continues to be circulated privately amongst poets and influences new writers, and introduced a free-verse version of an ancient form into the mainstream. 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Stilt Jack
The much-loved and critically undervalued second (and final) book of poems by British-Canadian Maritimes poet John Thompson.
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The Elements special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Erin Moure's poetry collection The Elements is limited to 50 copies.
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With images culled from dreams, he constructs allegories of love and oppression that communicate by strange association and mysterious overtones and vague or mysterious words...the emotional content of Moritz's work is so abundant and accessible that the reader is never lost. The Sentinel is a good place to become acquainted with Moritz's work...a masterpiece...Moritz's free verse takes on a classical quality...The Sentinel is an exploration of the possibilities of hope...[Moritz is a] rare poet...","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_2":"Al Moritz is a poet of high seriousness - rare in this quick and confessional age. And so, all the more to be valued.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"P.K. Page","OtherText_Review_3":"An ancient voice, mournful like the wind, speaks to itself yet means to be overheard in A.F. Moritz's amazing poems...We seem to hear shattered echoes from the Bible, Dante, Petrarch, or Sceve bound up in Maldoror's cruel eloquence.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"John Ashbery","OtherText_Review_4":"Moritz is at his best when he combines his poetic sensibility-his ear for rhythm, precise phrasing, nuanced shifts in tone and register, and lyrical imagery-with his knowledge of mythic and literary conventions and his cogent political and philosophical observations","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Canadian Literature","OtherText_Review_5":"The Sentinel is filled with moments like this: graceful, adroit, surprising. There is something reassuring in art of this calibre; it reminds us how things matter. Moritz's voice is unmistakable. His readers, his admiring peers and his reviewers have long felt this, but it has become so obvious that it must finally be said: A.F. Moritz is one of the true master poets of his generation.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A. F. Moritz's magisterial voice, rare insight, and supple craft are on impressive display in this Griffin Poetry Prize winning collection.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"03","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Literary Awards: Poetry","PrizeName_1":"Griffin Poetry Prize","PrizeName_2":"Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2008","PrizeYear_1":"2009","PrizeYear_2":"2009","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2008-04-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A. F. Moritz's magisterial voice, rare insight, and supple craft are on impressive display in this Griffin Poetry Prize winning collection.","Width":"5.56","WidthCode":"in"}
The Sentinel
A. F. Moritz's magisterial voice, rare insight, and supple craft are on impressive display in this Griffin Poetry Prize winning collection.
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The Deleted World
A brilliant selection of poems by Nobel prize winner Tomas Tranströmer, translated from the Swedish by renowned Scottish poet Robin Robertson.
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{"id":6817705820219,"title":"Testament","handle":"testament","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e is the summation of Dennis Lee’s decade-long exploration of the dilemma of contemporary existence. Incorporating and rethinking the work published in \u003cem\u003eUn\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e, and featuring many completely new poems, this startling collection reminds us anew of the catastrophic reality we have made of our planet, while simultaneously insisting on a particular kind of hope for our future. \u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e continues Lee’s radical and inventive use of language, shaping the familiar into the shockingly new. It is a landmark achievement, and a fitting end to one of the most ambitious projects in Canadian poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-28T16:54:50-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:26:28-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Lee Dennis","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2012-03-10"],"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":40220056780859,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770891111","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Testament - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":181,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770891111","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0b4da982-a768-4ec1-9d69-630499893464.jpg?v=1678596572"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0b4da982-a768-4ec1-9d69-630499893464.jpg?v=1678596572","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324492202043,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0b4da982-a768-4ec1-9d69-630499893464.jpg?v=1678596572"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0b4da982-a768-4ec1-9d69-630499893464.jpg?v=1678596572","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e is the summation of Dennis Lee’s decade-long exploration of the dilemma of contemporary existence. Incorporating and rethinking the work published in \u003cem\u003eUn\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e, and featuring many completely new poems, this startling collection reminds us anew of the catastrophic reality we have made of our planet, while simultaneously insisting on a particular kind of hope for our future. \u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e continues Lee’s radical and inventive use of language, shaping the familiar into the shockingly new. It is a landmark achievement, and a fitting end to one of the most ambitious projects in Canadian poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Testament
The latest collection from poetry legend Dennis Lee, and the final book in a trilogy that includes Un (Anansi, 2003) and Yesno (Anansi, 2007).
