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{"id":6582716956731,"title":"1996","handle":"1996","description":"\u003cp\u003eSara Peters' visionary debut collection is a book about obsessions — about desire, violence, sex, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed. In these startling poems of mystery and terror, we meet remarkable characters enduring unspeakable things, confronting the raw reality of existence through fearless candor. With profound clarity, elegance, and humour, Sara Peters reminds us of the harrowing and beautiful complexity of life itself. \u003cem\u003e1996\u003c\/em\u003e marks the undeniable arrival of an essential and brave new voice. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:05:19-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:05:19-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Peters Sara","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2013-04-13"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"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":39403399020603,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892712","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"1996 - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770892712","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39412850786363,"title":"Web PDF","option1":"Web PDF","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892729","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"1996 - Web PDF","public_title":"Web PDF","options":["Web PDF"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770892729","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_96b345f8-1f26-45c4-b91b-45fca22f19ee.jpg?v=1621044495"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_96b345f8-1f26-45c4-b91b-45fca22f19ee.jpg?v=1621044495","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20447906332731,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_96b345f8-1f26-45c4-b91b-45fca22f19ee.jpg?v=1621044495"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_96b345f8-1f26-45c4-b91b-45fca22f19ee.jpg?v=1621044495","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eSara Peters' visionary debut collection is a book about obsessions — about desire, violence, sex, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed. In these startling poems of mystery and terror, we meet remarkable characters enduring unspeakable things, confronting the raw reality of existence through fearless candor. With profound clarity, elegance, and humour, Sara Peters reminds us of the harrowing and beautiful complexity of life itself. \u003cem\u003e1996\u003c\/em\u003e marks the undeniable arrival of an essential and brave new voice. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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1996
Sara Peters' debut collection is about obsessions — about desire, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed.
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{"id":6582754738235,"title":"A Pillow Book","handle":"a-pillow-book","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot a narrative. Not an essay. Not a shopping list. Not a song. Not a diary. Not an etiquette manual. Not a confession. Not a prayer. Not a secret letter sent through the silent Palace hallways before dawn. Making a daybook of oblivion, \u003cem\u003eA Pillow Book\u003c\/em\u003e leads the reader on a darkly comic tour through the dim-lit valley of fitful sleep. The miscellaneous memoranda, minutiae, dreamscapes, and lists that comprise this book-length poem disclose a prismatic meditation on the price of privilege; the petty grievances of marriage, motherhood, art, and office politics; the indignities of age; and the putative properties of dreams, among other themes, set in the dead of winter in a Midwestern townhouse on the eve of the end of geohistory. Feather-light in its touch, quixotic in its turns, and resolutely deadpan in its delivery, \u003cem\u003eA Pillow Book\u003c\/em\u003e offers a twenty-first-century response to a thousand-year-old Japanese genre which resists, while slyly absorbing, all attempts to define it.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:13:35-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:13:35-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Buffam Suzanne","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2016-04-09"],"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":39403460067387,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000264","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Pillow Book - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000264","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d95cf1e5-7e12-42ce-a1c5-a2c101fa0a01.jpg?v=1621111350"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d95cf1e5-7e12-42ce-a1c5-a2c101fa0a01.jpg?v=1621111350","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20453877973051,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.735,"height":2400,"width":1763,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d95cf1e5-7e12-42ce-a1c5-a2c101fa0a01.jpg?v=1621111350"},"aspect_ratio":0.735,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d95cf1e5-7e12-42ce-a1c5-a2c101fa0a01.jpg?v=1621111350","width":1763}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eNot a narrative. Not an essay. Not a shopping list. Not a song. Not a diary. Not an etiquette manual. Not a confession. Not a prayer. Not a secret letter sent through the silent Palace hallways before dawn. Making a daybook of oblivion, \u003cem\u003eA Pillow Book\u003c\/em\u003e leads the reader on a darkly comic tour through the dim-lit valley of fitful sleep. The miscellaneous memoranda, minutiae, dreamscapes, and lists that comprise this book-length poem disclose a prismatic meditation on the price of privilege; the petty grievances of marriage, motherhood, art, and office politics; the indignities of age; and the putative properties of dreams, among other themes, set in the dead of winter in a Midwestern townhouse on the eve of the end of geohistory. Feather-light in its touch, quixotic in its turns, and resolutely deadpan in its delivery, \u003cem\u003eA Pillow Book\u003c\/em\u003e offers a twenty-first-century response to a thousand-year-old Japanese genre which resists, while slyly absorbing, all attempts to define it.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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A Pillow Book
A Pillow Book offers a modern response to a thousand-year-old Japanese genre which resists, while slyly absorbing, all attempts to define it.
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{"id":6582718169147,"title":"Airstream Land Yacht","handle":"airstream-land-yacht","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his brilliant third collection, award-winning and critically-acclaimed poet Ken Babstock finds momentary stays against our gathering darknesses in the irrepressible, acrobatic, free play of the mind. Poems of conscience collide with the problems of consciousness, the concrete and the conceptual find equal footing, and formal beauty mixes with imagistic brinksmanship as the speaker attempts to leave our \"homes half-sheathed Tyvek\" and \"drift into the pain of our neighbours.\" Like Babstock's earlier work, \u003cem\u003eAirstream Land Yacht\u003c\/em\u003e testifies to the harrowing beauty of everyday experience (\"a leather recliner star \/gazing on the free \/side of a yard fence,\" \"shopping \/carts growing a fur of frost,\" a grounded kite \"nose down in the crowberries and fir\") while introducing an expansiveness of inquiry with linguistic bravado and a quiet grace. The clutch of love poems contained here are key to unlocking the larger collection -- itself a love song to the wordless world.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:05:34-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:05:34-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Poetry","By (author) Babstock Ken","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2006-03-21"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1895,"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":39403401838651,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887847400","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Airstream Land Yacht - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":154,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887847400","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39412855570491,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849169","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Airstream Land Yacht - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887849169","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39412855603259,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770895539","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Airstream Land Yacht - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770895539","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ed5f66fa-369b-4d31-8464-d77cbeabee4f.jpg?v=1621047921"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ed5f66fa-369b-4d31-8464-d77cbeabee4f.jpg?v=1621047921","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20448183648315,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":617,"width":400,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ed5f66fa-369b-4d31-8464-d77cbeabee4f.jpg?v=1621047921"},"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":617,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ed5f66fa-369b-4d31-8464-d77cbeabee4f.jpg?v=1621047921","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIn his brilliant third collection, award-winning and critically-acclaimed poet Ken Babstock finds momentary stays against our gathering darknesses in the irrepressible, acrobatic, free play of the mind. Poems of conscience collide with the problems of consciousness, the concrete and the conceptual find equal footing, and formal beauty mixes with imagistic brinksmanship as the speaker attempts to leave our \"homes half-sheathed Tyvek\" and \"drift into the pain of our neighbours.\" Like Babstock's earlier work, \u003cem\u003eAirstream Land Yacht\u003c\/em\u003e testifies to the harrowing beauty of everyday experience (\"a leather recliner star \/gazing on the free \/side of a yard fence,\" \"shopping \/carts growing a fur of frost,\" a grounded kite \"nose down in the crowberries and fir\") while introducing an expansiveness of inquiry with linguistic bravado and a quiet grace. The clutch of love poems contained here are key to unlocking the larger collection -- itself a love song to the wordless world.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Airstream Land Yacht
Ken Babstock's brilliant third collection of poetry testifies to the harrowing beauty of everyday experience.
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{"id":6582718267451,"title":"Alden Nowlan Selected Poems","handle":"alden-nowlan-selected-poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe best of beloved poet Alden Nowlan's explicitly honest, direct, and insightful poetry. Now featuring an introduction by Susan Musgrave.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAlden Nowlan, one of Canada's finest and most influential poets, died in 1983. He leaves a rich legacy of poetry that is accessible yet profound, and that speaks to people's lives with wry observation and keen insight. \u003cem\u003eAlden Nowlan Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is for Nowlan fans and new readers alike. The poems included in this volume reflect the recurring themes that illuminate Nowlan's work, and it is truly the best of his poetry. Above all, this volume is a tribute to a poet who deserves to be treasured for all time.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:05:35-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:05:35-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","Adult Poetry","By (author) Nowlan Alden","Introduction by Musgrave Susan","pub date:"],"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":39403401936955,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770893764","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Alden Nowlan Selected Poems - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770893764","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39412855668795,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770893719","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Alden Nowlan Selected Poems - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":218,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770893719","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39412855767099,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770895553","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Alden Nowlan Selected Poems - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770895553","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_30f159b9-9a02-4522-9dbf-b50a25af103f.jpg?v=1621843520"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_30f159b9-9a02-4522-9dbf-b50a25af103f.jpg?v=1621843520","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20490841161787,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_30f159b9-9a02-4522-9dbf-b50a25af103f.jpg?v=1621843520"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_30f159b9-9a02-4522-9dbf-b50a25af103f.jpg?v=1621843520","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe best of beloved poet Alden Nowlan's explicitly honest, direct, and insightful poetry. Now featuring an introduction by Susan Musgrave.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAlden Nowlan, one of Canada's finest and most influential poets, died in 1983. He leaves a rich legacy of poetry that is accessible yet profound, and that speaks to people's lives with wry observation and keen insight. \u003cem\u003eAlden Nowlan Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is for Nowlan fans and new readers alike. The poems included in this volume reflect the recurring themes that illuminate Nowlan's work, and it is truly the best of his poetry. Above all, this volume is a tribute to a poet who deserves to be treasured for all time.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Alden Nowlan Selected Poems
The best of beloved poet Alden Nowlan's explicitly honest, direct, and insightful poetry. Now featuring an introduction by Susan Musgrave.
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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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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. \u003cem\u003eThe Sentinel \u003c\/em\u003eis a good place to become acquainted with Moritz’s work … A masterpiece … [Moritz is a] rare poet.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“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.” — \u003cem\u003eCanadian Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR A. F. 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This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of A. F. Moritz's poetry collection As Far As You Know is limited to 40 copies.
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Box Kite
Prose poems that are a meditation on the way we travel between places and between times, and how words and ideas travel between languages.
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Box Kite special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Baziju's poetry collection Box Kite is limited to 50 copies.
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Chameleon Hours
A lyric expression of life in all its intensity and the rewards of being reminded of one's own mortality.
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Chaser
An exciting and provocative collection from one of the most promising young voices in Canadian poetry.
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Civil Elegies
A List edition of Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies, with an introduction by Nick Mount.
