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Fugue With Bedbug
The eagerly awaited second collection from acclaimed poet Anne-Marie Turza.
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Passengers
The sixth and, on the surface, most peculiar poetry collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michael Crummey.
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Twitch Force special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Michael Redhill's poetry collection Twitch Force is limited to 50 copies.
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{"id":6899077808187,"title":"The Elements special hardcover edition","handle":"the-elements-special-hardcover-edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe new collection from Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet and translator Erín Moure is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destruction. This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Erin Moure's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Elements\u003c\/em\u003e is a family book, a thinker’s biography in poetry, and a polylingual homage. Poems about and for Moure’s late father — accepting his dementia as a real way of thinking “world” and “self” in a struggle against invasive powers — are braced alongside poems invoking the struggle of Galician peasants against the invasion of the armies of Napoleon. It is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destructions. By celebrating our ability to think and to revolt, it defends the human pull toward happiness and sovereignty, toward life, toward living. “The infinitely transmissible,” it says, “demands this polyvalent body.”\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-06-27T18:25:25-04:00","created_at":"2022-06-27T17:27:31-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","By (author) Moure Erín","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2019-04-09"],"price":3500,"price_min":3500,"price_max":3500,"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":40499152715835,"title":"hardcover special edition","option1":"hardcover special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003739","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Elements special hardcover edition - hardcover special edition","public_title":"hardcover special edition","options":["hardcover special edition"],"price":3500,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487003739","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4971ea96-6252-41a4-9c6b-0e02f63eca65.jpg?v=1682245535"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4971ea96-6252-41a4-9c6b-0e02f63eca65.jpg?v=1682245535","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Dark Blue Cover. Text: Er’n Moure. The Elements. (Nam:loz).","id":23431558594619,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":600,"width":450,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4971ea96-6252-41a4-9c6b-0e02f63eca65.jpg?v=1682245535"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":600,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4971ea96-6252-41a4-9c6b-0e02f63eca65.jpg?v=1682245535","width":450}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe new collection from Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet and translator Erín Moure is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destruction. This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Erin Moure's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Elements\u003c\/em\u003e is a family book, a thinker’s biography in poetry, and a polylingual homage. Poems about and for Moure’s late father — accepting his dementia as a real way of thinking “world” and “self” in a struggle against invasive powers — are braced alongside poems invoking the struggle of Galician peasants against the invasion of the armies of Napoleon. It is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destructions. By celebrating our ability to think and to revolt, it defends the human pull toward happiness and sovereignty, toward life, toward living. “The infinitely transmissible,” it says, “demands this polyvalent body.”\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Elements special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Erin Moure's poetry collection The Elements is limited to 50 copies.
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Roguelike special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Mathew Henderson's poetry collection Roguelike is limited to 40 copies.
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As Far As You Know special hardcover edition
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{"id":6841440239675,"title":"The Caiplie Caves special hardcover ed","handle":"the-caiplie-caves-special-hardcover-ed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGriffin Poetry Prize winner Karen Solie’s new collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/em\u003e, interrogates violence, power, economies, self-delusion, and belief in poems that orbit the Caves of Caiplie on the coast of Scotland. This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the seventh century, on the coast of Fife, Scotland, an Irish missionary named Ethernan withdrew to a cave in order to decide whether to establish a priory on May Island, directly opposite, in the Firth of Forth, or pursue a hermit’s solitude. His decision would have been informed by the realities of war, religious colonization, and ideas of progress, power, and corruption, and complicated by personal interest, grief, confusion, and a faith (religious and secular) under extreme duress. His choice between life as an “active” or a “contemplative” was one between public and private action. Along with the question of what constitutes action, it remains a choice central to political and private life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaren Solie’s fifth book of poetry, \u003cem\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/em\u003e, attends to transition in times of crisis. Around passages informed by Ethernan’s story are poems that orbit the geographical location of the caves but that range through the ages, addressing violence, power, work, economies, self-delusion, and belief. Indecision and necessity are inseparable companions. 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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487003722","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781770892170","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781770892606","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEVEN HEIGHTON\u003c\/strong\u003e’s most recent books are the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e (Hamish Hamilton, 2017), the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poetry collection \u003cem\u003eThe Waking Comes Late \u003c\/em\u003e(House of Anansi Press, 2016), and the memoir \u003cem\u003eReaching Mithymna\u003c\/em\u003e (Biblioasis, 2020), which was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He is also the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eAfterlands\u003c\/em\u003e, which was published in six countries, was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e Editor’s Choice, and was a “best of year” selection from ten publications in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. The novel has also been optioned for film by Pall Grimsson and is currently in pre-production. His other poetry collections include \u003cem\u003eThe Ecstasy of Skeptics\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e. His fiction and poetry have been translated into ten languages, have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books, Tin House, Poetry, Brick, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eIndependent, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and The Walrus Magazine, among others; have been internationally anthologized in \u003cem\u003eBest English Stories, Best American Poetry, The Minerva Book of Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBest American Mystery Stories\u003c\/em\u003e; and have won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Gerald Lampert Award, the K. M. Hunter Award, the P. K. Page Founders’ Award, the Petra Kenney Prize, the Air Canada Award, and four gold National Magazine Awards. In addition, Heighton has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Journey Prize, the Moth Prize, and Britain’s W. H. Smith Award. Heighton is also a fiction reviewer for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Kingston, Ontario. In 2021, Wolfe Island Records will release an album of his songs, \u003cem\u003eThe Devil’s Share\u003c\/em\u003e. To listen, visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfeislandrecords.com\/stevenheighton\"\u003ewww.wolfeislandrecords.com\/stevenheighton\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEVEN HEIGHTON\u003c\/strong\u003e’s most recent books are the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e (Hamish Hamilton, 2017), the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poetry collection \u003cem\u003eThe Waking Comes Late \u003c\/em\u003e(House of Anansi Press, 2016), and the memoir \u003cem\u003eReaching Mithymna\u003c\/em\u003e (Biblioasis, 2020), which was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He is also the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eAfterlands\u003c\/em\u003e, which was published in six countries, was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e Editor’s Choice, and was a “best of year” selection from ten publications in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. The novel has also been optioned for film by Pall Grimsson and is currently in pre-production. His other poetry collections include \u003cem\u003eThe Ecstasy of Skeptics\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e. His fiction and poetry have been translated into ten languages, have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books, Tin House, Poetry, Brick, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eIndependent, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and The Walrus Magazine, among others; have been internationally anthologized in \u003cem\u003eBest English Stories, Best American Poetry, The Minerva Book of Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBest American Mystery Stories\u003c\/em\u003e; and have won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Gerald Lampert Award, the K. M. Hunter Award, the P. K. Page Founders’ Award, the Petra Kenney Prize, the Air Canada Award, and four gold National Magazine Awards. In addition, Heighton has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Journey Prize, the Moth Prize, and Britain’s W. H. Smith Award. Heighton is also a fiction reviewer for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Kingston, Ontario. In 2021, Wolfe Island Records will release an album of his songs, \u003cem\u003eThe Devil’s Share\u003c\/em\u003e. To listen, visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfeislandrecords.com\/stevenheighton\"\u003ewww.wolfeislandrecords.com\/stevenheighton\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Heighton, Steven (CA)","Description":"In The Ecstasy of Skeptics Steven Heighton searches for the heart's true centre somewhere between the polarized spheres of order and anarchy, of logic and the erotic, of Apollo and Dionysus.","EAN":"9780887845604","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9780887845604\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.06","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"128","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"These poems of the heart's true centre balance between order and anarchy, logic and the erotic.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Award: Poetry","PrizeYear_0":"1994","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"1994-10-18","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"These poems of the heart's true centre balance between order and anarchy, logic and the erotic.","Width":"5.06","WidthCode":"in"}
The Ecstasy of Skeptics
These poems of the heart's true centre balance between order and anarchy, logic and the erotic.
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Search Procedures
Erin Moure explores the limits of our notions of language, and plays with the power of words to convey meaning or intelligibility.
