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A dynamic mix of speculative poetry and ecstatic lyricism, the otherworldly and the sublime, Pierre’s poems never stray too long or too far from the spell of unspoiled nature: “The palm trees nod \/ at the ocean \/ the ocean does \/ what it always does \/ trusts the moon completely.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriends ‘with benefits’ tour the wonders of Grenada’s landscapes; extraterrestrials visit the Caribbean and the locals don’t seem phased; red birds “saunter airily like tourists,” La Diablesse lures helpless suitors to their dooms. This collection asks: How can myths manifest themselves in our daily lives? What do we actually mean when we say we love ourselves and others? And how do we pursue\/create futures that honour our truths, histories and legacies?\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-08-29T17:50:22-04:00","created_at":"2024-08-29T17:44:24-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult New Releases","Adult Poetry","By (author) Mason Pierre Terese","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2025-04-01"],"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":41820379906107,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487013042","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Myth - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":204,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487013042","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41820379971643,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487013059","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Myth - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487013059","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7f3b452e-e87c-4632-82cf-4eaa1a59855a.jpg?v=1736550306"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7f3b452e-e87c-4632-82cf-4eaa1a59855a.jpg?v=1736550306","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: Myth by Terese Mason Pierre. 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In three movements and two interludes, the poems in \u003cem\u003eMyth\u003c\/em\u003e move symphonically from tropical islands to barren cities, from lucid dreams to the mysteries of reality, from the sea to the cosmos. A dynamic mix of speculative poetry and ecstatic lyricism, the otherworldly and the sublime, Pierre’s poems never stray too long or too far from the spell of unspoiled nature: “The palm trees nod \/ at the ocean \/ the ocean does \/ what it always does \/ trusts the moon completely.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriends ‘with benefits’ tour the wonders of Grenada’s landscapes; extraterrestrials visit the Caribbean and the locals don’t seem phased; red birds “saunter airily like tourists,” La Diablesse lures helpless suitors to their dooms. This collection asks: How can myths manifest themselves in our daily lives? What do we actually mean when we say we love ourselves and others? And how do we pursue\/create futures that honour our truths, histories and legacies?\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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One of ten winners of the Writers’ Trust McClelland \u0026 Stewart Journey Prize, she was named a Writers’ Trust Rising Star. Terese Mason Pierre is an editor at \u003cem\u003eAugur\u003c\/em\u003e, a Canadian journal of speculative literature, and the author of \u003cem\u003eMyth\u003c\/em\u003e (House of Anansi Press), a collection of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Mason Pierre, Terese (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMyth\u003c\/em\u003e, the much-anticipated debut collection from the multi-talented Terese Mason Pierre, weaves between worlds (‘real’ and ‘imaginary’) unearthing the unsettling: our jaded and joyful relationships to land, ancestry, trauma, self, and future. In three movements and two interludes, the poems in \u003cem\u003eMyth\u003c\/em\u003e move symphonically from tropical islands to barren cities, from lucid dreams to the mysteries of reality, from the sea to the cosmos. A dynamic mix of speculative poetry and ecstatic lyricism, the otherworldly and the sublime, Pierre’s poems never stray too long or too far from the spell of unspoiled nature: “The palm trees nod \/ at the ocean \/ the ocean does \/ what it always does \/ trusts the moon completely.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriends ‘with benefits’ tour the wonders of Grenada’s landscapes; extraterrestrials visit the Caribbean and the locals don’t seem phased; red birds “saunter airily like tourists,” La Diablesse lures helpless suitors to their dooms. This collection asks: How can myths manifest themselves in our daily lives? What do we actually mean when we say we love ourselves and others? 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Though not a collection of speculative poems, a number of the strongest pieces in the book fit that description. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBecause of its style and subject matter, the book\/author will draw crossover interest with speculative and science fiction audiences (Pierre is already a prominent Canadian figure in those genres). \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePierre is a strong reader and will likely hand-sell a good number of books on her own. Terese is also the editor of the forthcoming anthology of black speculative writing, \u003cem\u003eAs the Earth Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e, Anansi, Spring 2025 (title and pub date TBC).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“A startling, transformative collection.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e— Winnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Through the magic of her words, \u003cem\u003eMyth\u003c\/em\u003e explores our relationships to land, trauma, self, ancestry and the future— and asks how myths can manifest themselves in our everyday lives.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCanadian Living\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“These are poems as foundational as the earth or the ocean, offering sharp and astute first-person observational, declarative and descriptive lyrics … \u003cem\u003eMyth\u003c\/em\u003e is a striking and deeply complex debut.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e— rob mclennan's blog\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“What distinguishes \u003cem\u003eMyth\u003c\/em\u003e is not only its formal inventiveness, but its philosophical reach … A sustained inquiry into how we come to know ourselves through distance—temporal, emotional, and otherwise.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e— The Seaboard Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“These invisible connective structures from the tangible practical world of magic, devil, gods and myth do something, fulfil something, cross a gap of ache in a broken world. Such world-building in poetry permits a larger canvas than the obvious and given.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Miramichi Reader \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe much-anticipated debut collection from the multi-talented Terese Mason Pierre.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2025-04-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe much-anticipated debut collection from the multi-talented Terese Mason Pierre.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"5.75","WidthCode":"in"}
Myth
The much-anticipated debut collection from the multi-talented Terese Mason Pierre.
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{"id":7299167092795,"title":"Shadow Price","handle":"shadow-price","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorrowing its title from a finance term—“the estimated price of a good or service for which no market price exists”—\u003cem\u003eShadow Price\u003c\/em\u003e is a stunning debut that examines the idea of value in a world that burns under our capitalist lens. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e What gives life value? How do we serve existing societal structures that determine its cost? Employing both surreal and documentary imagery, Farah Ghafoor's arresting collection articulates how narrative is used to revise the past and manipulate the future, ultimately forming our present-day climate crisis. Interrogating personal complicity, generational implications, and the shock of our collective disregard for a world that sustains every living thing, \u003cem\u003eShadow Price\u003c\/em\u003e captures the complexities of living and writing as a young poet born in the year that “climate change denial” first appeared in print. Mourning the loss of Earth’s biodiversity, from insects to mammoths to trees, these introspective poems invite us to consider the risks and rewards of loving what may vanish in our lifetime. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShadow Price charges readers to contemplate their power and purpose in the world today, recognizing that there is hope even in the belly of the beast.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-08-29T17:43:54-04:00","created_at":"2024-08-29T17:38:26-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult New Releases","Adult Poetry","By (author) Ghafoor Farah","Feminist Reads","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2025-04-01"],"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":41820378726459,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012922","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Shadow Price - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487012922","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41820378791995,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012939","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Shadow Price - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487012939","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_2644c93b-12f6-43aa-84b2-98fe2194103c.jpg?v=1734188712"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_2644c93b-12f6-43aa-84b2-98fe2194103c.jpg?v=1734188712","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor. 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Employing both surreal and documentary imagery, Farah Ghafoor's arresting collection articulates how narrative is used to revise the past and manipulate the future, ultimately forming our present-day climate crisis. Interrogating personal complicity, generational implications, and the shock of our collective disregard for a world that sustains every living thing, \u003cem\u003eShadow Price\u003c\/em\u003e captures the complexities of living and writing as a young poet born in the year that “climate change denial” first appeared in print. Mourning the loss of Earth’s biodiversity, from insects to mammoths to trees, these introspective poems invite us to consider the risks and rewards of loving what may vanish in our lifetime. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShadow Price charges readers to contemplate their power and purpose in the world today, recognizing that there is hope even in the belly of the beast.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487008710","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487010843","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487011826","BASICMainSubject":"POE024000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY\/Women Authors","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFARAH GHAFOOR\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning poet living on the traditional territory of the Anishnabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. Her work was awarded the E.J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry, longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, is taught in university courses, and published in \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eFiddlehead\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRoom\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. 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She has a BBA from U of T.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBecause of its politics and subject matter, the book\/author will potentially draw crossover interest (it already has) in Environmental, Muslim, and Women’s Studies courses.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShadow Price \u003c\/em\u003eis a stunning debut that examines the idea of value in a world that burns under our capitalist lens. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2025-04-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShadow Price \u003c\/em\u003eis a stunning debut that examines the idea of value in a world that burns under our capitalist lens. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"Poems","Width":"5.75","WidthCode":"in"}
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Shadow Price is a stunning debut that examines the idea of value in a world that burns under our capitalist lens.
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S.","Description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE POEMS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou fell asleep on the tiles,\u003cbr\u003e\n a translucent peacock loomed,\u003cbr\u003e\n your sex opened and let out\u003cbr\u003e\n a very blue, very high flame.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou wore a split veil, that morning.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSilent, nailed to her chair, the seated woman writes. She cracks. The poems fidget, slip their fingers: they seek to enter. Perched on her shoulder, the poems whisper in her ear. 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Taillon beautifully shapes Clémence Dumas-Côté’s duel in English, creating a luminous, sharp-tender, glad \u003cem \u003eréplique\u003c\/em\u003e that lets \u003cem \u003epoet \u003c\/em\u003estand up to \u003cem \u003epoetry\u003c\/em\u003e.\" —\u003cstrong \u003eErín Moure, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTheophylline: an a-poretic migration via the modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"A conversation, an antiphony, a tug of war, a dance, in which the beauty of the French surfaces through the equal beauty of the English.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eRhonda Mullins, translator of \u003cem\u003ePale Shadows \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eSing, Nightingale\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eArachnide's mandate to bring very good French-Canadian literature to English-speaking audiences is broadening its scope by delving into one of the great art forms of all time: French poetry.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eE.S. 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The Seated Woman
With flexibility and invisible acrobatics, The Seated Woman presents, as in the theatre, a competitive dialogue between a woman and her poems.
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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487008710","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487005771","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487009465","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ Canadian","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSANNA WANI\u003c\/strong\u003e loves daisies. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBrick, Poem-A-Day (\u003c\/i\u003epoets.org\u003ci\u003e),\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBest Canadian Poetry 2020. \u003c\/i\u003eShe lives in Mississauga, Ontario, and Srinagar, Kashmir. This is her first collection of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"POETRY \/ Subjects \u0026amp; Themes \/ General","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"POETRY \/ Women Authors","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","BISACSubject_1":"POE023000","BISACSubject_2":"POE024000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSANNA WANI\u003c\/strong\u003e loves daisies. 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This is her first collection of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Wani, Sanna (CA)","EAN":"9781487010843","OtherText_Review_0":"Wani has put her entire self—all her grief, all her unexpressed love, and poured it into this white and yellow bound gift for those of us who need it the most—the grief-stricken, filled to the brim with endless love.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Porter House Review","OtherText_Review_1":"Beautiful and fresh ... this is a collection that finds delight in life, and its delight is contagious in the best way.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"The Miramichi Reader","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eSanna Wani’s \u003ci\u003eMy Grief, the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e makes such a convincing case for astonishment as a way of life. Each poem enveloped me with so much tenderness it was as if \u003ci\u003eI \u003c\/i\u003ewere the sun! The theological music that courses throughout the book was not a narrowing toward some esoteric knowledge but rather an opening toward a collective sense of enmeshment with the inscrutable world. This book\u0026nbsp;is a necessary reminder that ‘there is something inside \/ [us] that says live.’ \u003ci\u003eMy Grief, the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonder and a delight.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of This Wound Is a World and NDN Coping Mechanisms","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eMapping us through time, space, and geography, Sanna Wani’s debut collection \u003ci\u003eMy Grief, the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e spins a web of various griefs and loves. As visual as it is lyrical, Wani announces herself as a poet who pushes the experimentation of form forward, taking bold risks and literally reinventing the way that we see language. ‘A mosque is always directed toward Mecca. A dome does not have orientation unless it is toward the sky,’ Wani writes, and pointing her eyes to the sky, and with incredible vision, makes even the tiniest detail visible.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Fatimah Asghar, author of If They Come for Us","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eI read Sanna Wani’s\u0026nbsp;\u003ci\u003eMy Grief, the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026nbsp;with a highlighter in my hand, and by the time I was done, it was nearly out of ink. I could not stop loving lines, wanting to be sure I remembered them always. They progress with such sureness into marvelous and unexpected directions: ‘God climbs so many trees. Religion is a ladder. We are meant to help Him down.’ Over and over, Wani practices the act of artful surrender to each poem’s strange, budding logic. That she can do so with such apparent ease is astonishing. That we get to witness the places her gorgeous poems take her is a profound gift. I’m wonderstruck.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Heather Christle, author of Heliopause and The Trees The Trees","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003eSlipping gracefully between subjects as disparate as pop culture and theology, while maintaining her recognizably disarming mix of poignancy and sweetness, Wani’s formal approaches in\u0026nbsp;\u003ci\u003eMy Grief, the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026nbsp;are … hard to look away from, with surprise after surprise appearing on each successive page.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"CAROUSEL","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMy Grief, the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, Sanna Wani unlocks a door for her readers, invites them to be open-hearted—to be vulnerable and curious—meditating on the ways in which love, longing, grief, distance, and faith can live together inside a person’s body and soul.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Herizons","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe highly anticipated debut collection from acclaimed poet Sanna Wani.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"05","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeName_0":"LCP Gerald Lampert Memorial Award","PrizeName_1":"LCP Pat Lowther Memorial Award","PrizeName_2":"Ontario Trillium Award for Poetry","PrizeYear_0":"2023","PrizeYear_1":"2023","PrizeYear_2":"2023","ProductFormDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003ehardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","PublicationDate":"2022-04-05","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe highly anticipated debut collection from acclaimed poet Sanna Wani.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}
My Grief, the Sun: Special Edition
The highly anticipated debut collection from acclaimed poet Sanna Wani.
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O Cadoiro
O Cadoiro is an astonishing exploration of lyricism by one of our greatest poets.
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Great Silent Ballad
Beloved lyric poet A.F. Moritz’s twenty-second volume asserts poetry's spirit, equal and antidotal to the suicidal nature of present-day civilization.
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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2024
The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry published in English from the shortlist of the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Shhh, friends, just read on!\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Carleigh Baker, author of Last Woman and Bad Endings","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJen Currin is the author of six previous books, several of which have won or been nominated for many awards; notably, the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe stories in this book showcase queer individuals, couples, throuples, and friends, adolescent, young adult, and older.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe collection is peppered with magic realism, such as orbs to different universes, a banshee, and a trip to the afterlife.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAward–winning author Jen Currin presents remarkable and sometimes magical new stories of queer friendship and love, against the backdrop of city life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2024-05-14","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAward–winning author Jen Currin presents remarkable and sometimes magical new stories of queer friendship and love, against the backdrop of city life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"Stories","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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Award–winning author Jen Currin presents remarkable and sometimes magical new stories of queer friendship and love, against the backdrop of city life.
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{"id":7168137920571,"title":"Midway","handle":"midway","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHonest, elegiac, characteristically strange, and frequently funny, \u003cem\u003eMidway\u003c\/em\u003e is an exploration of grief in all its manifestations.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I feel like the crud \/ I accidentally touch sometimes, whatever it is \/ that collects under cushions on my couch,” writes Kayla Czaga in her third collection, \u003cem\u003eMidway\u003c\/em\u003e, an exploration of grief in all its manifestations. In her search for meaning in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths, Czaga visits the underworld (at least twice), Vietnamese restaurants, the beach, London’s Tate Modern, Las Vegas casinos, and a fish textbook. Honest, elegiac, characteristically strange, and frequently funny, these poems take the reader through bright scenery like carnival rides with fast climbs and sudden drops. 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He would have perhaps written, as Czaga does, a poem called “The Sadness of Marge Simpson,” though this one is better because it’s real, and in this tremendous book: “my dad didn’t actually die \/ but has been in China this whole time \/ gawking at the Great Wall like he always wanted \/ and maybe Marge Simpson is with him, \/ having finally divorced her declining franchise.” To a reader facing one’s own declining franchises, Czaga’s \u003cem \u003eMidway\u003c\/em\u003e offers a glimpse at how, through the paired problems of the presence of parents and their absences, one's imagination and self might still grow.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Ed Skoog, author of Travelers Leaving for the City","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe author sees this as the final book in a trilogy, each one of them featuring exactly 41 poems. 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Midway
Honest, elegiac, characteristically strange, and frequently funny, Midway is an exploration of grief in all its manifestations.
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Crying Dress
Crying Dress explores the intersections between noise and coherence, the conversational and the associative, the architectural and the ecological.
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Poetry of the lightest touch for the heftiest matters … Undi has proven herself an exquisite and needful diarist of the inextricability of Black being from love, from freedom, from the tangled, hurtful web of this modern life … A queerly marvelous debut!\" — \u003cstrong\u003eCanisia Lubrin, author of \u003cem\u003eCode Noir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Katherena Vermette, author of The Break","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"Bound together and each piece so very much its own, this collection marvels from masterful found poems to sprinkles of pure love and humour. Undi electrifies, is at once vulnerable and completely indestructible. PS: That first Winnipeg poem has got to be our new hometown anthem.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eKatherena Vermette, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Canisia Lubrin, author of Code Noir","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"With searing wit, a tender hand, and a bird’s eye, \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e delivers a smirk behind each word as alluring as it is intelligent. Melding the personal and the political, Undi’s poems understand Winnipeg streets as well as they know Supreme Court jurisprudence. High school crushes mingle with the evolution of birds—apologies with freedom—in a voice that represents both an astounding and curious achievement. ‘I am learning about property\/in a recent nation where no one looks me in the eye,’ she writes. ‘I wanted something\/too, to survive,\/besides my good name.’ \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e is a fight song for anyone in love with their broken city—its strange stores—and our dying earth, its betrayal and beauty. All of it, Undi demonstrates, worth noticing, worth cherishing, worth remembering.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eSanna Wani, author of \u003cem\u003eMy Grief, the Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Sanna Wani, author of My Grief, the Sun","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis book marks the third consecutive season Anansi Poetry has featured a debut collection from a young Winnipeg poet (Brandi Bird, Hannah Green).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUndi was born and raised in Namibia, and did not arrive in Canada until the age of 13. As a result, her experiences of immigration, assimilation, discrimination, etc. in her new country are first hand, not inherited.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn terms of its touchstones the book is very local and regional. The book includes several “Manitoba” poems and even a cheeky list poem about the obligatory references that make for an accepted ‘Winnipeg’ poem.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis book marks the third consecutive season Anansi Poetry has featured a debut collection from a young Winnipeg poet (Brandi Bird, Hannah Green).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUndi was born and raised in Namibia, and did not arrive in Canada until the age of 13. As a result, her experiences of immigration, assimilation, discrimination, etc. in her new country are first hand, not inherited.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn terms of its touchstones the book is very local and regional. 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Scientific Marvel
Marked by rhythmic drive, humour, and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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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.
