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Congotronic
The second collection from Canadian poet and filmmaker Shane Book.
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Congotronic special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Shane Book's poetry collection Congotronic is limited to 50 copies.
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Congratulations, Rhododendrons
In her debut collection, Congratulations, Rhododendrons, award-winning poet Mary Germaine offers love poems to an insistently unlovely world.
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{"id":6582727344187,"title":"Crowd of Sounds","handle":"crowd-of-sounds","description":"Once in a long while a lyric poet comes along whose technique, emotional pitch, and intellect combine in sublime balance and take poetry to a new level. Witness Adam Sol.\r\n\r\nSol's work is exhilarating in its range. Here he is gentle and mournful, attuned to his surroundings, and suddenly over here he mounts a sneak attack and hits us with erotic joy, erotic threat, history, elegy, comic absurdity, and acts of disturbing ventriloquism somehow stitching it all together with a tightly scored thematic coherence.\r\n\r\nFor once our eyes are not our first concern, Sol writes, and in poem after poem, as he conducts jay, wasp, streetcar, busker, and lover's breath, he awakens our listening. These poems are about music but they are also about the silence it breaks, and the inevitable recurrence of that silence.","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:07:38-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:07:38-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Poetry","By (author) Sol Adam","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2003-04-01"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"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":39403415306299,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887846885","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Crowd of Sounds - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":118,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887846885","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2b0eb22f-f54b-4f08-ae43-347076de643c.jpg?v=1621064578"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2b0eb22f-f54b-4f08-ae43-347076de643c.jpg?v=1621064578","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20449589493819,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"width":396,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2b0eb22f-f54b-4f08-ae43-347076de643c.jpg?v=1621064578"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2b0eb22f-f54b-4f08-ae43-347076de643c.jpg?v=1621064578","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"Once in a long while a lyric poet comes along whose technique, emotional pitch, and intellect combine in sublime balance and take poetry to a new level. Witness Adam Sol.\r\n\r\nSol's work is exhilarating in its range. Here he is gentle and mournful, attuned to his surroundings, and suddenly over here he mounts a sneak attack and hits us with erotic joy, erotic threat, history, elegy, comic absurdity, and acts of disturbing ventriloquism somehow stitching it all together with a tightly scored thematic coherence.\r\n\r\nFor once our eyes are not our first concern, Sol writes, and in poem after poem, as he conducts jay, wasp, streetcar, busker, and lover's breath, he awakens our listening. These poems are about music but they are also about the silence it breaks, and the inevitable recurrence of that silence."}
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Crowd of Sounds
Adam Sol's sublime poems are about music, but they are also about the silence it breaks, and the inevitable recurrence of that silence.
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Days Into Flatspin
Ken Babstock's extraordinary second collection reveals a poet in full flight: fearless and technically brilliant.
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Directing Herbert White
The debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco.
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Drift
A Trillium Book Award for Poetry winner, this collection reminds us that our solitude is painful, yet precious.
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Sparkling with recollection’s rich details, associative leaps, colloquial doses of energy and imaginative reach, Dunk Tank is exhilarating.” — David O’Meara, author of\u003cem\u003e A Pretty Sight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“The author is always inventive in her metaphors and images … All in all \u003cem\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/em\u003e is smart and heartfelt.” — \u003cem\u003eWalleye\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Czaga manages to capture moments of maturation with the wisdom of a backward glance … Approachable and skillful in its poetics and narrative detail.” — \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“What a profound, effortless spell Kayla Czaga conjures with this collection. In communion with an array of private and public selves, these poems convince me authentic connection is possible. Desirous and impulsive, problematic as any one of us, the speaker never exempts herself from the world she tallies in tacos, panties, inherited stress, taps on Instagram posts, seagulls heaped like Kleenex. When she confesses ‘it felt \/ like we could say and finally mean \/ something,’ I’m enlivened, senses heightened, as if my name is being called by someone who never calls me by my name.” — Sheryda Warrener, author of \u003cem\u003eFloating Is Everything\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR KAYLA CZAGA AND \u003cem\u003eFOR YOUR SAFETY PLEASE HOLD ON\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e Winner, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award\u003cbr\/\u003e Finalist, Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry\u003cbr\/\u003e Finalist, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize\u003cbr\/\u003e Finalist, Debut-litzer Prize\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Funny, smart, sophisticated, guileless: reading Czaga is like drinking a glass of water in a desert. 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Reading it is like being brought into someone’s home and told all the family secrets — never an imposition, it feels rather like an initiation into the clan. I thoroughly enjoyed it.” — Paul Vermeersch, author of \u003cem\u003eDon’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Kayla Czaga’s \u003cem\u003eFor Your Safety Please Hold On\u003c\/em\u003e moves line by flawless line along an arc in | from broken bodies through re | construction into troubled and troubling metaphor. In this first collection, which offers the reader a growth project, a deeply embodied girl child and young woman meets her world (personal and literary) with sly and contemplative thought that experiments with itself. Czaga unfurls experience, observation and development with complexity and more than a little humour suspending a reader between this page's moment of assurance and the next moment's unsettling observation. 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Dunk Tank
Dunk Tank is a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life.
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And in this regard Czaga’s poems leave you laugh-crying and changed.” — \u003cem\u003eOrmsby Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“The author is always inventive in her metaphors and images … All in all \u003cem\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/em\u003e is smart and heartfelt.” — \u003cem\u003eWalleye\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Czaga manages to capture moments of maturation with the wisdom of a backward glance … Approachable and skillful in its poetics and narrative detail.” — \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Seemingly effortless but brimming with craft, Czaga’s art results from her enviable agility with phrasing and expression. The poems in \u003cem\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/em\u003e are as immediate, honest, affectionate, raw, anxious, jokey, and thoughtful as an impromptu confession over an evening’s confab. Sparkling with recollection’s rich details, associative leaps, colloquial doses of energy and imaginative reach, Dunk Tank is exhilarating.” — David O’Meara, author of\u003cem\u003e A Pretty Sight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“The author is always inventive in her metaphors and images … All in all \u003cem\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/em\u003e is smart and heartfelt.” — \u003cem\u003eWalleye\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Czaga manages to capture moments of maturation with the wisdom of a backward glance … Approachable and skillful in its poetics and narrative detail.” — \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“What a profound, effortless spell Kayla Czaga conjures with this collection. In communion with an array of private and public selves, these poems convince me authentic connection is possible. Desirous and impulsive, problematic as any one of us, the speaker never exempts herself from the world she tallies in tacos, panties, inherited stress, taps on Instagram posts, seagulls heaped like Kleenex. When she confesses ‘it felt \/ like we could say and finally mean \/ something,’ I’m enlivened, senses heightened, as if my name is being called by someone who never calls me by my name.” — Sheryda Warrener, author of \u003cem\u003eFloating Is Everything\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR KAYLA CZAGA AND \u003cem\u003eFOR YOUR SAFETY PLEASE HOLD ON\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e Winner, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award\u003cbr\/\u003e Finalist, Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry\u003cbr\/\u003e Finalist, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize\u003cbr\/\u003e Finalist, Debut-litzer Prize\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Funny, smart, sophisticated, guileless: reading Czaga is like drinking a glass of water in a desert. Every once in a while there arrives a young poet whose astonishing aptitude for the craft rises so clearly, so beautifully, the relief is palpable. \u003cem\u003eFor Your Safety Please Hold On\u003c\/em\u003e is Czaga’s answer to Moure’s \u003cem\u003eDomestic Fuel\u003c\/em\u003e and Solie’s \u003cem\u003eShort Haul Engine\u003c\/em\u003e … and like Moure and Solie we don’t need to expect great things from her. Great things are already here.” — Elizabeth Bachinsky, author of the Governor General’s Literary Award finalist \u003cem\u003eHome of Sudden Service\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Kayla Czaga’s \u003cem\u003eFor Your Safety Please Hold On\u003c\/em\u003e recalls what was radical about Robert Lowell’s Life Studies a half century ago. With wit and empathy, it moves beyond the confessional to reclaim the intimate and personal as an adventurous subject for poetry. Reading it is like being brought into someone’s home and told all the family secrets — never an imposition, it feels rather like an initiation into the clan. I thoroughly enjoyed it.” — Paul Vermeersch, author of \u003cem\u003eDon’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Kayla Czaga’s \u003cem\u003eFor Your Safety Please Hold On\u003c\/em\u003e moves line by flawless line along an arc in | from broken bodies through re | construction into troubled and troubling metaphor. In this first collection, which offers the reader a growth project, a deeply embodied girl child and young woman meets her world (personal and literary) with sly and contemplative thought that experiments with itself. Czaga unfurls experience, observation and development with complexity and more than a little humour suspending a reader between this page's moment of assurance and the next moment's unsettling observation. 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Dunk Tank special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Kayla Czaga's poetry collection Dunk Tank is limited to 50 copies.
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For Tamara
Arranged as a mother’s survival guide to her daughter, For Tamara is a touching and inventive long poem about surviving and thriving.
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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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Furious
The early Governor General’s Literary Award–winning collection from one of Canada’s most profoundly inventive and eminent poets.
