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Tyrannosaurus Rex and the Corduroy Kid
Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid engages deeply with some of the most pressing oppositions of our time.
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{"id":6582769287227,"title":"Un","handle":"un","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is hard to think of another book like \u003cem\u003eUn\u003c\/em\u003e. Reading it is like bouncing on a moral, intellectual, and linguistic trampoline.This astonishing sequence begins with a countdown that takes us not to zero, but to un. Lee is surveying the catastrophic new reality we have made of our planet. But pushing way past the mimetic, he plunges into language itself with shovel and pick-axe, digging up free-standing prefixes, syllables, roots, in a struggle to articulate what we can scarcely bear to think. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis untology is at once a lament for our squandered earth, a wake-up call, a dramatic poetic departure, and a song of despair, streaked with craggy hope. Lee's exploration turns play into prayer -- perhaps the only kind of prayer the contemporary world permits.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:16:54-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:16:54-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Lee Dennis","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2003-04-01"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1695,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403478515771,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887846854","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Un - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1695,"weight":109,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887846854","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_f62d49d9-2302-4297-aeda-61fb3d189e37.jpg?v=1621135953"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_f62d49d9-2302-4297-aeda-61fb3d189e37.jpg?v=1621135953","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20456404647995,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.722,"height":720,"width":520,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_f62d49d9-2302-4297-aeda-61fb3d189e37.jpg?v=1621135953"},"aspect_ratio":0.722,"height":720,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_f62d49d9-2302-4297-aeda-61fb3d189e37.jpg?v=1621135953","width":520}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIt is hard to think of another book like \u003cem\u003eUn\u003c\/em\u003e. Reading it is like bouncing on a moral, intellectual, and linguistic trampoline.This astonishing sequence begins with a countdown that takes us not to zero, but to un. Lee is surveying the catastrophic new reality we have made of our planet. But pushing way past the mimetic, he plunges into language itself with shovel and pick-axe, digging up free-standing prefixes, syllables, roots, in a struggle to articulate what we can scarcely bear to think. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis untology is at once a lament for our squandered earth, a wake-up call, a dramatic poetic departure, and a song of despair, streaked with craggy hope. Lee's exploration turns play into prayer -- perhaps the only kind of prayer the contemporary world permits.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Dennis Lee's heart-stricken masterpiece reminds us why poetry still matters.
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{"id":6582769549371,"title":"Under the Keel","handle":"under-the-keel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe brilliant new collection from Michael Crummey, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eGalore\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \r\n \u003cp\u003eMichael Crummey’s first collection in a decade has something for everyone: Love and marriage and airport grief; how not to get laid in a Newfoundland mining town; total immersion baptism; the grand machinery of decay; migrant music and invisible crowns and mortifying engagements with babysitters; the transcendent properties of home brew. Whether charting the merciless complications of childhood, or the unpredictable consolations of middle age, these are poems of magic and ruin. \u003cem\u003eUnder the Keel\u003c\/em\u003e affirms Crummey’s place as one of our necessary writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:16:57-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:16:57-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Starred Reviews","By (author) Crummey Michael","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2013-03-23"],"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":39403478777915,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892699","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Under the Keel - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770892699","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_41765a99-bcbb-4d0d-8f8d-31a3b6587570.jpg?v=1621136244"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_41765a99-bcbb-4d0d-8f8d-31a3b6587570.jpg?v=1621136244","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20456430174267,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.654,"height":612,"width":400,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_41765a99-bcbb-4d0d-8f8d-31a3b6587570.jpg?v=1621136244"},"aspect_ratio":0.654,"height":612,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_41765a99-bcbb-4d0d-8f8d-31a3b6587570.jpg?v=1621136244","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe brilliant new collection from Michael Crummey, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eGalore\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \r\n \u003cp\u003eMichael Crummey’s first collection in a decade has something for everyone: Love and marriage and airport grief; how not to get laid in a Newfoundland mining town; total immersion baptism; the grand machinery of decay; migrant music and invisible crowns and mortifying engagements with babysitters; the transcendent properties of home brew. Whether charting the merciless complications of childhood, or the unpredictable consolations of middle age, these are poems of magic and ruin. \u003cem\u003eUnder the Keel\u003c\/em\u003e affirms Crummey’s place as one of our necessary writers.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Under the Keel
A brilliant collection from Michael Crummey, bestselling author of Galore.
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Under the Keel special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Michael Crummey's poetry collection Under the Keel is limited to 50 copies.
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Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit
Oneiric, fabulist, hilarious, surreal. No single term seems to sufficiently contain Mikko Harvey’s delightful, cheeky, absurdist, inimitable debut.
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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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Upgraded to Serious
Heather McHugh's imaginative, funny poetry is a miracle cure for suffering and boredom.
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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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Xiphoid Process
Award-winning Kevin Connolly’s new collection extends its author’s investigation of identity, authority, intention, and authenticity.
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Xiphoid Process special hardcover edition
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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Yesno
This companion volume to Un grapples with earth and humankind's future, embracing pessimism and hope.
