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{"id":7055525543995,"title":"Tauhou","handle":"tauhou","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDear grandmother, I am writing this song, over and over again, for you. I am a stranger in this place, he tauhou ahau, reintroducing myself to your land. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e is an inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent. This innovative hybrid novel envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa New Zealand that sit side by side in the ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEach chapter is a fable, an autobiographical memory, a poem. A monster guards cultural objects in a museum, a woman uncovers her own grave, another woman remembers her estranged father. On rainforest beaches and grassy dunes, sisters and cousins contend with the ghosts of the past — all the way back to when the first foreign ships arrived on their shores.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn a testament to the resilience of Indigenous women, the two sides of this family, Coast Salish and Māori, must work together in understanding and forgiveness to heal that which has been forced upon them by colonialism. \u003cem\u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e is an ardent search for answers, for ways to live with truth. It is a longing for home, to return to the land and sea.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-06T09:13:21-05:00","created_at":"2022-12-06T09:09:55-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Coming Soon","By (author) Nuttall Kōtuku Titihuia","House of Anansi Press","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2023-04-11"],"price":1999,"price_min":1999,"price_max":2499,"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":41003629150267,"title":"hardcover jacket","option1":"hardcover jacket","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011697","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Tauhou - hardcover jacket","public_title":"hardcover jacket","options":["hardcover jacket"],"price":2499,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011697","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":41003630821435,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011703","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Tauhou - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1999,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011703","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7df42fa9-ba56-4fb7-b158-26c191f6c762.jpg?v=1677989706"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7df42fa9-ba56-4fb7-b158-26c191f6c762.jpg?v=1677989706","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23305206169659,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.645,"height":2325,"width":1500,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7df42fa9-ba56-4fb7-b158-26c191f6c762.jpg?v=1677989706"},"aspect_ratio":0.645,"height":2325,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7df42fa9-ba56-4fb7-b158-26c191f6c762.jpg?v=1677989706","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDear grandmother, I am writing this song, over and over again, for you. I am a stranger in this place, he tauhou ahau, reintroducing myself to your land. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e is an inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent. This innovative hybrid novel envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa New Zealand that sit side by side in the ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEach chapter is a fable, an autobiographical memory, a poem. A monster guards cultural objects in a museum, a woman uncovers her own grave, another woman remembers her estranged father. On rainforest beaches and grassy dunes, sisters and cousins contend with the ghosts of the past — all the way back to when the first foreign ships arrived on their shores.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn a testament to the resilience of Indigenous women, the two sides of this family, Coast Salish and Māori, must work together in understanding and forgiveness to heal that which has been forced upon them by colonialism. \u003cem\u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e is an ardent search for answers, for ways to live with truth. It is a longing for home, to return to the land and sea.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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I am a stranger in this place, he tauhou ahau, reintroducing myself to your land. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e is an inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent. This innovative hybrid novel envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa New Zealand that sit side by side in the ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEach chapter is a fable, an autobiographical memory, a poem. A monster guards cultural objects in a museum, a woman uncovers her own grave, another woman remembers her estranged father. 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Nuttall’s work binds words in a way that doesn’t hold too tightly but steadfastly contains the many Ancestors present in Nuttall’s life and work, weaving together a tapestry of nuance and witnessing. Masterful dialogue and rich scenes move emotions like the currents around Aotearoa and the Salish Seas, a beautiful display of lyricism that loudly proclaims that Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall belongs in the crescendo of rising voices in CanLit. \u003cem \u003eTauhou \u003c\/em\u003eis not a collection to miss!\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"jaye simpson, author of it was never going to be okay","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eThe stories in this collection move like the waves of the ocean that divide Vancouver Island and Aotearoa. Once you emerge from \u003cem \u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e’s narrative depths, you'll miss its imagination, its rhythms, its heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Alicia Elliott, author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eExciting, hybrid work! This novel plays with genre and form to create an intriguing hybrid work that incorporates elements of poetry, memoir, and fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eAs well as being Māori, Kōtuku is Coast Salish (W̱SÁNEĆ) on her father’s side, the author spent her elementary school years on Vancouver Island.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe speculative fiction genre has recently gained not only popularity but literary prestige. Indigenous futurism and speculative fiction play a significant role in the landscape of writers like Cherie Dimaline, Eden Robinson, David A. 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Tauhou
An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent.
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{"id":7095986487355,"title":"Theophylline","handle":"theophylline","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is breath for? What is archive? Why write a poem, instead of... something else?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTheophylline\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of poetry motivated by asthma, seeking poetry’s futurity in a queer and female heritage. Moure crosses a border to engage the poetry of three American modernists—Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, and Angelina Weld Grimké—as a translator might enter work to translate it. But what if that work is already in English?\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMoure listens to rhythms, punctuation, conditions of production and reception, and finds migration patterns, queeritude, mother mimory, wars, silence, constraints on breath, and social bias played out in terms of race and\/or class. Moving from present to past to a future in the unwritten; querying borders, jarred by intrusions from alter ego Elisa Sampedrín, \u003cem\u003eTheophylline\u003c\/em\u003e finishes with poems informed by pandemic walks and human aging that include two translations: from Rosalía de Castro, pre-modernist poet who wrote in Galician calling on women to speak, and from César Vallejo, the twentieth century Peruvian whose poetics shattered the colonial (Spanish) tongue.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-02-23T16:50:31-05:00","created_at":"2023-02-23T15:53:36-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Coming Soon","Adult Poetry","By (author) Moure Erín","By (author) Sampedrín Elisa","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2023-08-08"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"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":41136186261563,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011604","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Theophylline - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011604","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":41136228073531,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011611","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Theophylline - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011611","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9d7d3185-2c75-4cbd-a29a-3ea75360afb7.jpg?v=1678458933"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9d7d3185-2c75-4cbd-a29a-3ea75360afb7.jpg?v=1678458933","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23320352653371,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"width":1800,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9d7d3185-2c75-4cbd-a29a-3ea75360afb7.jpg?v=1678458933"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9d7d3185-2c75-4cbd-a29a-3ea75360afb7.jpg?v=1678458933","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is breath for? What is archive? Why write a poem, instead of... something else?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTheophylline\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of poetry motivated by asthma, seeking poetry’s futurity in a queer and female heritage. Moure crosses a border to engage the poetry of three American modernists—Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, and Angelina Weld Grimké—as a translator might enter work to translate it. But what if that work is already in English?\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMoure listens to rhythms, punctuation, conditions of production and reception, and finds migration patterns, queeritude, mother mimory, wars, silence, constraints on breath, and social bias played out in terms of race and\/or class. Moving from present to past to a future in the unwritten; querying borders, jarred by intrusions from alter ego Elisa Sampedrín, \u003cem\u003eTheophylline\u003c\/em\u003e finishes with poems informed by pandemic walks and human aging that include two translations: from Rosalía de Castro, pre-modernist poet who wrote in Galician calling on women to speak, and from César Vallejo, the twentieth century Peruvian whose poetics shattered the colonial (Spanish) tongue.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9780887847288","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487003722","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781770894815","BASICMainSubject":"POE024000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ Women Authors","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eERÍN MOURE\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and translator (primarily of Galician, French, and Portuguese poetry into English) who welcomes texts that are unconventional or difficult because she loves and needs them. Among other honours, she is a two-time winner of Canada’s Governor General’s Award (in poetry and translation), a winner of the Pat Lowther Award, a three-time finalist for a Best Translated Book Award in poetry, and a three-time finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is based in Tiohtià:ke\/Montréal.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Women Authors","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"POETRY \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE024000","BISACSubject_1":"POE011000","BISACSubject_2":"POE000000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eERÍN MOURE\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and translator (primarily of Galician, French, and Portuguese poetry into English) who welcomes texts that are unconventional or difficult because she loves and needs them. Among other honours, she is a two-time winner of Canada’s Governor General’s Award (in poetry and translation), a winner of the Pat Lowther Award, a three-time finalist for a Best Translated Book Award in poetry, and a three-time finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is based in Tiohtià:ke\/Montréal.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eELISA SAMPEDRÍN\u003c\/strong\u003e is undependable. Her presence, like that of the shoe, worries the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Moure, Erín (CA)","Contributor_1":"Sampedrín, Elisa","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is breath for? What is archive? Why write a poem, instead of... something else?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTheophylline\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of poetry motivated by asthma, seeking poetry’s futurity in a queer and female heritage. Moure crosses a border to engage the poetry of three American modernists—Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, and Angelina Weld Grimké—as a translator might enter work to translate it. But what if that work is already in English?\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMoure listens to rhythms, punctuation, conditions of production and reception, and finds migration patterns, queeritude, mother mimory, wars, silence, constraints on breath, and social bias played out in terms of race and\/or class. Moving from present to past to a future in the unwritten; querying borders, jarred by intrusions from alter ego Elisa Sampedrín, \u003cem\u003eTheophylline\u003c\/em\u003e finishes with poems informed by pandemic walks and human aging that include two translations: from Rosalía de Castro, pre-modernist poet who wrote in Galician calling on women to speak, and from César Vallejo, the twentieth century Peruvian whose poetics shattered the colonial (Spanish) tongue.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487011604","Height":"9","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"256","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMoure has an international reputation as an avant garde poetry star. While her work is challenging and eccentric, each new collection from her is seen as an event among poetry lovers. \u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe title of the collection is actually the active ingredient in the author’s asthma medicine. Living with asthma during the pandemic, combined with Moure’s family connections to Ukraine, provide strong background influences on the collection. \u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eShe is the only poet to have been named a Griffin Prize finalist three times.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeeking poetry’s futurity in a queer and female heritage, Erín Moure's newest work investigates the qualities and conditions of language and breath.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2023-08-08","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeeking poetry’s futurity in a queer and female heritage, Erín Moure's newest work investigates the qualities and conditions of language and breath.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"Poems","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
Theophylline
Seeking poetry’s futurity in a queer and female heritage, Erín Moure's newest work investigates the qualities and conditions of language and breath.
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{"id":7095986716731,"title":"The All + Flesh","handle":"the-all-flesh","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrandi Bird's frank, transcendent poetry explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory in this long-anticipated debut collection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBrandi Bird’s long-anticipated debut poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eThe All + Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e, explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory that connect its author to their chosen kin, blood relatives, and ancestral lands. By examining kinship in broader contexts, these frank, transcendent poems expose binaries that exist inside those relationships, then inspect and tease them apart in the hope of moving toward decolonial future(s). Bird’s work is highly concerned with how outer and inner landscapes move and change within the confines of the English language, particularly the “I” of the self, a tradition of movement that has been lost for many who don’t speak their Indigenous languages or live on their homelands. 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By exploring the landscapes the poet does inhabit, both internally and externally, Bird’s poems seek to delve into and reflect their cultural lineages—specifically Saulteaux, Cree, and Métis—and how these transformative identities shape the person they are today.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eI am made of centuries \u0026amp; carbohydrates\u003cbr\u003e\r\nthe development of my molars\u003cbr\u003e\r\nthe hunger the teeth grew\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhas been with me since childhood\u003cbr\u003e\r\nI can’t escape the mouths of others\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The All + Flesh
Brandi Bird's frank, transcendent poetry explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory in this long-anticipated debut collection.
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Back in the Land of the Living
A sexy, unforgettable story about love and longing in a time of chaos by Scotiabank Giller Prize longlisted author Eva Crocker.
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Not That Kind of Place
A rising literary star delivers a haunting exploration of the long-term effects of systemic violence.
