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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. The meanings and messages Czaga uncovers on her travels are complicated: hopeful, bleak—both comforting and not. Along with the parents the poet mourns, this collection showcases a varied cast. A suburban father-in-law copes with a troubling diagnosis. Marge Simpson quits \u003cem\u003eThe Simpsons\u003c\/em\u003e. Death is a metalhead who dates girls too young for him. \u003cem\u003eMidway\u003c\/em\u003e is a welcome and necessary collection from one of the most celebrated and accomplished poets of her generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-07-27T14:27:46-04:00","created_at":"2023-07-27T14:22:33-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult LGBTQ+","Adult Poetry","By (author) Czaga Kayla","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2024-04-02"],"price":1699,"price_min":1699,"price_max":2199,"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":41382985695291,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012601","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Midway - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2199,"weight":150,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487012601","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41382986416187,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012618","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Midway - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1699,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487012618","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012601.jpg?v=1709572774"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012601.jpg?v=1709572774","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: Midway, poems by Kayla Czaga. 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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. The meanings and messages Czaga uncovers on her travels are complicated: hopeful, bleak—both comforting and not. Along with the parents the poet mourns, this collection showcases a varied cast. A suburban father-in-law copes with a troubling diagnosis. Marge Simpson quits \u003cem\u003eThe Simpsons\u003c\/em\u003e. Death is a metalhead who dates girls too young for him. \u003cem\u003eMidway\u003c\/em\u003e is a welcome and necessary collection from one of the most celebrated and accomplished poets of her generation.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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She lives with her wife on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen people, the Songhees nd Esquimalt nations. \u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Czaga, Kayla (CA)","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. The meanings and messages Czaga uncovers on her travels are complicated: hopeful, bleak—both comforting and not. Along with the parents the poet mourns, this collection showcases a varied cast. A suburban father-in-law copes with a troubling diagnosis. Marge Simpson quits \u003cem\u003eThe Simpsons\u003c\/em\u003e. Death is a metalhead who dates girls too young for him. \u003cem\u003eMidway\u003c\/em\u003e is a welcome and necessary collection from one of the most celebrated and accomplished poets of her generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487012601","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487012601\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"88","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003eA lyric force, taking on grief in molecular detail. I love these poems.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Souvankham Thammavongsa, author of How to Pronounce Knife","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Then I got into the poem– \/ it doesn’t matter which poem– \/ and let it take me \/ wherever it was going,” Kayla Czaga concludes in her powerful elegy, “Dad Poem,” and I found myself making this allowance as well throughout the brilliant lyric poems of \u003cem \u003eMidway. \u003c\/em\u003eThere’s a lot of discussion of dinosaur erotica but, sadly, little actual dinosaur erotica. Instead the poet shows a sprightly imagination formed as much from the ebullience of fanfiction as the “seven hundred Romantic poems” she studied in school (merely learning “how to flirt with lakes”). But Keats in the Internet age would still have been Keats, just a Keats who wrote some Hanson fanfiction at some point. 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. The middle book in the trilogy (\u003cem\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/em\u003e, 2019) was her first book with Anansi.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhereas \u003cem\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/em\u003e was a coming-of-age, \u003cem\u003eMidway\u003c\/em\u003e is chiefly concerned with grief and acceptance. Her deceased parents appear as characters in several poems, both in memory and as ghosts.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eMidway\u003c\/em\u003e is funny, genuine, and well written. 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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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{"id":7168136216635,"title":"Crying Dress","handle":"crying-dress","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eCrying Dress\u003c\/em\u003e, acclaimed poet Cassidy McFadzean’s third collection, explore the multiplicity of meaning that arises from fragmentation, rhythm, competing sounds, and ellipsis. Rooted in the tradition of lyric poetry, these strikingly original poems revel in musicality (rhyme, beat, and alliteration) while deploying puns, idiom, and other forms of linguistic play to create a dissonance that challenges the expected coherence of a poem. From the ghosts and gardens of Brooklyn and Sicily to the clanging of garbage chutes in Uno Prii’s modernist high rises in Toronto, to quiet moments of intimacy in domestic spaces, and the early days of sobriety and grief, \u003cem\u003eCrying Dress\u003c\/em\u003e explores the intersections between noise and coherence, the conversational and the associative, the architectural and the ecological, while reaffirming the poet’s sonic, vertiginous lyricism and gift for overlooked detail.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-07-27T14:22:08-04:00","created_at":"2023-07-27T14:16:38-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) McFadzean Cassidy","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2024-04-02"],"price":1699,"price_min":1699,"price_max":2199,"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":41382972129339,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012588","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Crying Dress - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2199,"weight":195,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487012588","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41382972915771,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012595","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Crying Dress - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1699,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487012595","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012588.jpg?v=1709572553"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012588.jpg?v=1709572553","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Crying Dress, Poems, by Cassidy McFadzean. The cover features a sketched illustration of a figure composed of different shapes on textured a beige background. The torso of the figure is a green sphere, the toe is a black point, the right arm a brown bat, the left arm a bell, and the face a combination of a white triangle and red half-circle. The figure has small lips as if it is wearing simple lipstick.","id":24263862681659,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012588.jpg?v=1709572553"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012588.jpg?v=1709572553","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eCrying Dress\u003c\/em\u003e, acclaimed poet Cassidy McFadzean’s third collection, explore the multiplicity of meaning that arises from fragmentation, rhythm, competing sounds, and ellipsis. Rooted in the tradition of lyric poetry, these strikingly original poems revel in musicality (rhyme, beat, and alliteration) while deploying puns, idiom, and other forms of linguistic play to create a dissonance that challenges the expected coherence of a poem. From the ghosts and gardens of Brooklyn and Sicily to the clanging of garbage chutes in Uno Prii’s modernist high rises in Toronto, to quiet moments of intimacy in domestic spaces, and the early days of sobriety and grief, \u003cem\u003eCrying Dress\u003c\/em\u003e explores the intersections between noise and coherence, the conversational and the associative, the architectural and the ecological, while reaffirming the poet’s sonic, vertiginous lyricism and gift for overlooked detail.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487000264","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487007843","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781770890114","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ Canadian","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCASSIDY McFADZEAN\u003c\/strong\u003e studied poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and fiction at Brooklyn College. She is the author of two books of poetry: \u003cem\u003eDrolleries\u003c\/em\u003e (McClelland \u0026 Stewart 2019), shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award, and \u003cem\u003eHacker Packer\u003c\/em\u003e (M\u0026S 2015), which won two Saskatchewan Book Awards and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her crown of sonnets, \u003cem\u003eThird State of Being\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Gaspereau Press in 2022. 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She lives in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"McFadzean, Cassidy (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eCrying Dress\u003c\/em\u003e, acclaimed poet Cassidy McFadzean’s third collection, explore the multiplicity of meaning that arises from fragmentation, rhythm, competing sounds, and ellipsis. Rooted in the tradition of lyric poetry, these strikingly original poems revel in musicality (rhyme, beat, and alliteration) while deploying puns, idiom, and other forms of linguistic play to create a dissonance that challenges the expected coherence of a poem. From the ghosts and gardens of Brooklyn and Sicily to the clanging of garbage chutes in Uno Prii’s modernist high rises in Toronto, to quiet moments of intimacy in domestic spaces, and the early days of sobriety and grief, \u003cem\u003eCrying Dress\u003c\/em\u003e explores the intersections between noise and coherence, the conversational and the associative, the architectural and the ecological, while reaffirming the poet’s sonic, vertiginous lyricism and gift for overlooked detail.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487012588","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487012588\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"112","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e‘There was a time we could have gone back but that time has passed,’ writes Cassidy McFadzean in \u003cem\u003eCrying Dress\u003c\/em\u003e, where poems of grief and intimacy memorably explore modernity’s juxtapositions of the beautiful, the bizarre, and the brutal. Here ‘the bud of a tadpole in cupped palms,’ a Frida Kahlo pillow, and the last text message from a loved one become unexpected keystones in the architecture of the speaker’s experience. These surprising, moving poems relate newfound sobriety, nascent love, and irrevocable loss, while capturing the flickering quality of contemporary attention. McFadzean confronts the immense entropy of our moment and uncovers, within it, within us, tenderness.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Michael Prior, author of Burning Province","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eSeasonal affect falls into beautifully monstrous order in Cassidy McFadzean’s \u003cem\u003eCrying Dress\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection tracking a year’s circuitous passage in New York, Toronto, and abroad. Writing from the disorienting clarity of grief and new love, McFadzean sutures these states into blunt longing—to savour every warp of the world and to hover outside its adjunct horrors, a lyric zone in which the poet can ‘sing like an animal clawing inside.’\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Daniel Poppick, author of Fear of Description","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMcFadzean is one of very few Canadians to be a graduate of the prestigious Iowa Writer’s Workshop. That combined with her recent MFA at New York University, and her regular publication in influential U.S. poetry journals (\u003cem\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eColumba\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTupelo Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e) makes her a more familiar name in the American market.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhereas previous titles were set in historical sites, European and Asian countries, and amongst animals, real and imagined, \u003cem\u003eCrying Dress\u003c\/em\u003e is the first to delve mostly into urban environments, particularly Brooklyn and Toronto.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003e\u003cem\u003eCrying Dress\u003c\/em\u003e explores the intersections between noise and coherence, the conversational and the associative, the architectural and the ecological.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2024-04-02","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003e\u003cem\u003eCrying Dress\u003c\/em\u003e explores the intersections between noise and coherence, the conversational and the associative, the architectural and the ecological.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"Poems","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
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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{"id":7168131465275,"title":"Scientific Marvel","handle":"scientific-marvel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner, 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWinner, 2024 League of Canadian Poets Raymond Souster Award\u003cbr\u003e\nFinalist, 2024 League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Memorial Award\u003cbr\u003e\nCBC Best Book of 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarked by rhythmic drive, humour, and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirmly grounded in the local, the arresting poems in Chimwemwe Undi’s debut collection, \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e, are preoccupied with Winnipeg in the way a Winnipegger is preoccupied with Winnipeg, the way a poet might be preoccupied with herself: through history and immigration; race and gender; anxieties and observation. Marked by rhythmic drive, humour and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the west. Taking its title from a beauty school in downtown Winnipeg that closed in 2017 after nearly 100 years of operation, \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e approaches the prairies from the point of view of a person who is often erased from the prairies’ idea of itself. “I mean my country the way \/ my country means my country \/ and what else is there to say? \/ I am bad and brown \/ and trying. 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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. 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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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Brandi Bird is currently completing an MFA at the University of British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Bird, Brandi (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner, 2024 Indigenous Voices Award for Poetry in English\u003cbr\u003e\nFinalist, 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\nFinalist, 2024 League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Memorial Award\u003cbr\u003e\nFinalist, 2024 League of Canadian Poets' Raymond Souster Award\u003cbr\u003e\nLonglist, 2024 League of Canadian Poets' Pat Lowther Memorial Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCBC Best Poetry of 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI am made of centuries \u0026 carbohydrates\u003cbr\u003e\nthe development of my molars\u003cbr\u003e\nthe hunger the teeth grew\u003cbr\u003e\nhas been with me since childhood\u003cbr\u003e\nI can’t escape the mouths of others\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eBrandi Bird’s long-anticipated debut poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eThe All + Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e, explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory that connect its author to their chosen kin, blood relatives, and ancestral lands. 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By exploring the landscapes the poet does inhabit, both internally and externally, Bird’s poems seek to delve into and reflect their cultural lineages—specifically Saulteaux, Cree, and Métis—and how these transformative identities shape the person they are today.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487011833","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487011833\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"brandi morin;our voice of fire;west coast","NumberOfPages":"96","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe All + Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e marks the arrival of an endlessly moving and astounding voice in Indigenous poetry. I, for one, will be reading these poems for the rest of my life.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eBilly-Ray Belcourt, author of \u003cem\u003eA MINOR CHORUS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of A MINOR CHORUS","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"These poems are tender and surprising; they are holes travelling through time and space. They are able to shapeshift God into pills, prayers, seeds, and stars. \u003cem\u003eThe All + Flesh \u003c\/em\u003ehas taken root in my mind and I'm happy to let it grow there.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eJessica Johns, author of \u003cem\u003eBad Cree\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Liz Howard, author of Letters in a Bruised Cosmos","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eThe All + Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e, Brandi Bird maps the psychic space between ‘NDN compartmentalization’ and split prairies, from bus depots to ‘endocrine storms,’ from LiveJournal to a living history of relocation under land theft. ‘My body is not an empire but first contact happened at \/ birth’ and ‘I eat \/ until my mouth needles \/ the dark.’ With exacting lucidity, Bird’s lyrics chart the body as a reservoir for colonial malice, a site of resistance, and a conduit for a voice that is visceral, immediate, and uncompromising. An absolute triumph of a debut.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eLiz Howard, author of \u003cem\u003eLetters in a Bruised Cosmos\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Jessica Johns, author of Bad Cree","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBrandi is at the forefront of a wave of impressive new poetic talent emerging from Winnipeg, a group which includes Katherena Vermette, Hannah Green, and Chimwemwe Undi.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBrandi is at the forefront of a wave of impressive new poetic talent emerging from Winnipeg, a group which includes Katherena Vermette, Hannah Green, and Chimwemwe Undi.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e\"Drawing on their experience as a queer and Indigenous author, [Brandi Bird reveals], sharply and beautifully, the whiplash of coming of age in a time of contradiction—when reparations and profound systematic failures arrive on the same day.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"British Columbia Review","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"Honest and transformative, these poems portray and reach beyond Prairie landscapes and wounded lives.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrairie Books NOW\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"Bird’s clear, forceful voice stacks imagistic snippets in formally inventive poems and leaves the reader to intuit and feel through how they all fit together in an act of engaged, attentive witnessing.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tyee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is Bird’s gospel … They transform prayer into poetry.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBritish Columbia Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The All + Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e is a sophisticated debut work … Over and over again, time is suspended in the poems, and in this state of timelessness, we are able to transcend the limitations of western linearity and thought and to reconnect with relationships that have been stunted or lost. 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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.
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The 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry from the shortlist of the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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It \u003cem\u003eis \u003c\/em\u003eword\u003cem\u003eplay \u003c\/em\u003ebecause it romps and leaps within the form of the poem, the lines buck like animals. Throughout all of their books, and especially in this new one, Currin’s sense of language is sure and wild, wild and sure.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eKazim Ali, author of \u003cem\u003eInquisition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Kazim Ali, author of Inquisition","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"Set against the moody wetness of the Pacific Northwest through its perambulations from Vancouver to Portland and back again, these poems contemplate the moon; a predatory State in collusion with “Princes of Melting Icecaps;” the often-unseen intimacy between architecture and animals; intergenerational trauma; dying salmon and structural dystopia; and conclude with what must be paramount in our minds in the present ecological crises: water and healing.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eMercedes Eng, author of \u003cem\u003ePrison Industrial Complex Explodes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Mercedes Eng, author of Prison Industrial Complex Explodes","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJen Currin's poetry has won or been nominated for many awards including the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry and the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQueer audiences will be particularly interested in Jen Currin's new work, which has always centered queer themes from sex and relationships to community activism. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom the perspective of a decades-long community activist, this book looks back at a life spent fighting for justice and sits in the complex dissatisfaction of seeing only incremental change.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJen Currin's poetry has won or been nominated for many awards including the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry and the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQueer audiences will be particularly interested in Jen Currin's new work, which has always centered queer themes from sex and relationships to community activism. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom the perspective of a decades-long community activist, this book looks back at a life spent fighting for justice and sits in the complex dissatisfaction of seeing only incremental change.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e\"Wry, shrewd, and brassy … What Currin is after as a poet and in poetry is beyond an either\/or premise. … Moving and discovering poems.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCanthius\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Canthius","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"Elegant and melodious poems … From transit rides to office tasks, Currin brews heady substance from quotidian routines.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"Oh, the sensitive, careful language, each word picked full of colour and taste. I want to eat it. I want to sing it.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eSCWES Book Awards for BC Authors Judge\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"SCWES Book Awards for BC Authors Judge","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, \u003cem\u003eTrinity Street \u003c\/em\u003eis the much-anticipated fifth collection from acclaimed poet Jen Currin.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeName_0":"SCWES Book Awards for BC Authors","PrizeYear_0":"2023","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2023-04-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, \u003cem\u003eTrinity Street \u003c\/em\u003eis the much-anticipated fifth collection from acclaimed poet Jen Currin.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"Poems","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
Trinity Street
Heartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, Trinity Street is the much-anticipated fifth collection from acclaimed poet Jen Currin.
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Through roving tours of tone and tactic … Hannah Green mounts a contemporary antihero with both a light and devastating touch, knowing just when to loosen the slack and when to jerk the line arrestingly taut.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eJury Citation, 2021 Bronwen Wallace Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Dallas Hunt, author of Creeland","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"I’ve never read anything quite like Xanax Cowboy, with its lassoed dream logic or its pistol-drawn showdown with dread. But that’s life when you live in a Wild West of anxiety, and nowhere else can you find this prescription-laced, wasp-sting aesthetic. Hannah Green’s poems are a form-bending live wire, a chainsaw ethos that carves its way through the desert sunset. A long howl in cowboy boots that refuses to be wrangled, Xanax Cowboy is original and compelling.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Faulkner, author of \u003cem\u003eHeady Bloom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Jury Citation, 2021 Bronwen Wallace Award","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"A fierce collection on cowboy boots and alienation, with incisive and insightful thoughts on navigating mental health, Hannah Green’s debut is all tooth and claw. It bristles, sears, and haunts. At once individual, and yet illuminating in the affective commons it articulates, Hannah has created a home here — come dwell.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eDallas Hunt, author of \u003cem\u003eCreeland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Andrew Faulkner, author of Heady Bloom","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eA fierce collection on cowboy boots and alienation, with incisive and insightful thoughts on navigating mental health, Hannah Green’s debut is all tooth and claw. It bristles, sears, and haunts. At once individual, and yet illuminating in the affective commons it articulates, Hannah has created a home here — come dwell.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Dallas Hunt, author of Creeland","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eXanax Cowboy is a meta-poetic romp that chews through the lexicons of pulp, pop, and academia, spitting out pieces that are at once campy, dark, and gnawingly tender, with a bravado and showmanship that challenge conventions of power, performance, gender, and genre. 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Xanax Cowboy
This edgy, often darkly comedic long poem considers the romanticization of addiction and mental illness via the romanticization of the Wild West.
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My Grief, the Sun
The highly anticipated debut collection from acclaimed poet Sanna Wani.
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The 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist.
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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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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.
