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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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Intruder
In Intruder, acclaimed poet Bardia Sinaee explores with vivid and precise language themes of encroachment in contemporary life.
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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.
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Roo Borson lives in Toronto with poet and collaborator Kim Maltman.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBaziju are currently at work on a new manuscript project called \u003cem\u003eShort Moral Tales\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Maltman, Kim (CA)","Contributor_1":"Borson, Roo (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A piece of paper with writing on it is flat, but when what is written on that paper fills the mind of a reader, it takes off into the wind like a box kite on a windy day,\" writes Baziju — the shared voice of poets Roo Borson and Kim Maltman. This exquisite, collaboratively written sequence of prose poems, unfolding through rich, delicate imagery, journeys through streets and gardens, houses and temples, cities and countryside, Canada and China. It is a meditation on the way we travel between places and between times, and how words and ideas travel between languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaziju explores the literature of China, from centuries past to the present, exploring, at the same time, the meaning of hope and of home: childhood homes, the homes we grow into, and the homes in our minds. In Lu Xun's classic story \"My Old Home,\" the hero returns from a distant city to the home he left two decades earlier. Hope, he ponders, \"is just like the roads of the earth… . [T]o begin with the earth has no roads, but where many people pass, there a road is made.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese sensual, deeply personal prose poems ponder change, loss, friendship, and belonging. In a life in which every detail has significance, the smallest observation grows, and spreads like the branches of wisteria.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770899636","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770899636\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"168","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eBox Kite\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\"… this collection of stories offers an ever-shifting, slightly translucent veil that is both dense and permeable, tempting readers to peer again and again through the layers.\" — \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\"…aesthetically pleasing and, frankly, delicious.\" — \u003cem\u003eOttawa Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"… this collection of stories offers an ever-shifting, slightly translucent veil that is both dense and permeable, tempting readers to peer again and again through the layers.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_1":"…aesthetically pleasing and, frankly, delicious.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Ottawa Review of Books","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Prose poems that are a meditation on the way we travel between places and between times, and how words and ideas travel between languages.","ProductFormDescription":"Web PDF","PublicationDate":"2016-04-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"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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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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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.
