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We loved seeing her at full strength, pushing the boundaries of her art.” — New Zealand Post Book Awards Jury Citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e “These poems are the best Camp has produced … Clear, intelligent, deep, and quirky.” — \u003cem\u003eOtago Daily Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR KATE CAMP AND \u003cem\u003eTHE MIRROR OF SIMPLE ANNIHILATED SOULS\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eNew Zealand Post Book Award for Poetry\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Mesmerizing … Memorable … An exceptionally fine poet who deserves an international readership … Camp’s voice is undeniably her own: wry, sympathetic, affable, deadpan … [Camp is] aware that her poems must exist within a continuum of thoughtful, civilized art and philosophy while remaining loyal to the eccentricity and value of lived experience … An exceptional collection.” — Kevin Connolly, \u003cem\u003eBrick\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“The hallmarks of Camp’s earlier writing are still present: irreverent humour, the tough springy style, the swift changes in viewpoints. 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With a more sombre atmosphere, a steadier pace, and an increasingly confident linguistic control, this is poetry of true maturity.” — Sarah Quigley, \u003cem\u003eNew Zealand Listener\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR KATE CAMP AND \u003cem\u003eBEAUTY SLEEP\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Revelling in the strange juxtapositions of her poetic quanta, with an acute sense of the resonances they create, Kate Camp engages with ideas in the joyful spirit of the thought-experiment … Defying the gravity of conventional exposition, they do not lack humility, humanity, or food for thought, but offer a keen wit, a sense of fun, and the words essential to any honest research: ‘I don’t know.’” — Cilla McQueen, \u003cem\u003eDominion Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR KATE CAMP AND \u003cem\u003eREALIA\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Camp is Gen X grown up. 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How to Be Happy Though Human
How to Be Happy Though Human introduces New Zealand’s Kate Camp’s eclectic and musical poetry to international audiences for the first time.
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Anxiety, hospitalization, and body paranoia recur in the poems’ imagery — Sinaee went through two-and-a-half years of chemotherapy in his mid-twenties, documented in the vertiginous multipart prose poem “Twelve Storeys” — making \u003cem\u003eIntruder\u003c\/em\u003e a book that seems especially timely, notably in the dreamlike, minimalist sequence “Half-Life,” written during the lockdown in Toronto in spring 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProgressing from plain-spoken dispatches about city life to lucid nightmares of the calamities of history, the poems in \u003cem\u003eIntruder\u003c\/em\u003e ultimately grapple with, and even embrace, the daily undertaking of living through whatever the hell it is we’re living through.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487008727","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487008727\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"96","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR BARDIA SINAEE AND \u003cem\u003eINTRUDER\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“[An] assured debut collection … Sinaee’s turns of phrase are polished and evocative, whether he’s writing about refugees from the chilling perspective of a xenophobe or offering a drily humorous take on life here in the ‘city of delays, \/ egregious detours.’” \u003cem\u003e— Toronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“‘Attuned to discourses regarding the spectral nature of just about everything,’ Bardia Sinaee illuminates our modern gothic in his debut collection, \u003cem\u003eIntruder\u003c\/em\u003e. Haunted by the political history of the Middle East, by the precarity of the contemporary Canadian metropole, and by the spectre of death — ‘That slow ghost \/ pushing a drip stand \/ down the corridor \/ That’s me’ — this existential intruder questions just about everything, including himself. ‘Maybe you ask too many questions,’ writes the poet, ‘Maybe it’s time to let the wind have your clothes.’ Wondrously, Sinaee’s lyric interrogations hold us captive even as they invite us to imagine our escape.” \u003cem\u003e— \u003c\/em\u003eSrikanth Reddy, author of \u003cem\u003eUnderworld Lit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eIntruder\u003c\/em\u003e is a book that wants to ‘welcome the world, all of it’ — birdsong and myth, magnolias and the city, along with the ‘slow ghost \/ pushing a drip stand \/down the corridor.’ We sit with the poet in a room with two windows; we sit with the patient as a central venous catheter is inserted into his chest. Sinaee writes that ‘all poems are true\/even ugly ones.’ But there are no ugly poems in this surprising, moving, and darkly humorous debut collection — only true ones.” — Jen Currin, author of \u003cem\u003eSchool\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR BARDIA SINAEE\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“The question of a full-length book from Sinaee isn’t a matter of if, but when, and \u003cstrong\u003ethere is such a care and a patience in his poems that suggests, perhaps, he simply isn’t in a hurry\u003c\/strong\u003e, which might, for now, be the smartest thing he can do.” \u003cem\u003e— Open Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Several peers: Aisha Sasha John, Phoebe Wang, Vladimir Lucien, Safiya Sinclair, Danez Smith, Solmaz Sharif, Juliane Okot Bitek, Bardia Sinaee, Ishion Hutchinson, and others. \u003cstrong\u003eThese poets are all holding dynamic spaces within their own rattled courtships with language and feeling and thought in poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e.”\u003cem\u003e — \u003c\/em\u003eCanisia Lubrin, \u003cem\u003eWhat the Poets Are Doing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Sinaee’s poetry always strikes just the right note between sarcasm and wisdom. \u003cstrong\u003eSincerity has become a dirty word, a saccharine insult, but when done right, like in the poetry of Bardia Sinaee, these poems rise above any cheap sentiment and truthfully\u003c\/strong\u003e, crisply, clearly, \u003cstrong\u003ecut to the heart of matters\u003c\/strong\u003e.” \u003cem\u003e—\u003c\/em\u003e Michael Dennis\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"“[An] assured debut collection … Sinaee’s turns of phrase are polished and evocative, whether he’s writing about refugees from the chilling perspective of a xenophobe or offering a drily humorous take on life here in the ‘city of delays, \/ egregious detours.’”","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In Intruder, acclaimed poet Bardia Sinaee explores with vivid and precise language themes of encroachment in contemporary life.","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2021-04-06","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"In Intruder, acclaimed poet Bardia Sinaee explores with vivid and precise language themes of encroachment in contemporary life."}
Intruder
In Intruder, acclaimed poet Bardia Sinaee explores with vivid and precise language themes of encroachment in contemporary life.
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Quietly powerful, Junebat is the kind of book one returns to over and over again, to read and to dream about.” — Kai Cheng Thom, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eA Place Called No Homeland\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eI Hope We Choose Love\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR JOHN ELIZABETH STINTZI\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nWinner, Writers’ Trust RBC Bronwen Wallace Award\u003cbr\u003e\r\nWinner, \u003cem\u003eMalahat Review\u003c\/em\u003e’s Long Poem Prize\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n“‘Selections from a Junebat’ is a compelling collision of content and form disrupting gender identity and reckoning with the liminal and silent space that such disruption instigates. 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Junebat
Junebat is a form- and gender-disrupting debut collection that grapples with the pain of uncertainty on the path towards becoming.
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The care shown toward the authorial self, the past, and those within Stintzi’s emotional sphere is like coming up for air from a culture ruled by nihilism. Case in point: ‘I am trying to personalize \/ myself to my melancholy, don’t want to be neighbour \/ to my own narrative anymore.’ To the poetics of the queer everyday Stintzi adds their ‘Junebat,’ a multitudinous concept of such explanatory power I’m certain it’ll endure in the collective memory of Canadian writing.” — Billy-Ray Belcourt, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThis Wound is a World\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNDN Coping Mechanisms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eJunebat\u003c\/em\u003e is a piercing examination of body, self, and the miraculous yet painful process of becoming. In this emotionally intimate, technically brilliant debut collection, Stintzi both opens a window to their soul and holds a mirror to the reader’s. Quietly powerful, Junebat is the kind of book one returns to over and over again, to read and to dream about.” — Kai Cheng Thom, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eA Place Called No Homeland\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eI Hope We Choose Love\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR JOHN ELIZABETH STINTZI\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eWinner, Writers’ Trust RBC Bronwen Wallace Award\u003cbr \/\u003eWinner, \u003cem\u003eMalahat Review\u003c\/em\u003e’s Long Poem Prize\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“‘Selections from a Junebat’ is a compelling collision of content and form disrupting gender identity and reckoning with the liminal and silent space that such disruption instigates. John Elizabeth Stintzi’s poems rely on the breaking of grammar and syntactical sequences as well as a re-visioning of Wallace Stevens’ ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’ to assert an authentic identity in the speaker’s private and public life. This reckoning and reclamation of self asks readers to consider their own concepts of gender and the difficulties that are faced when gender norms are disrupted. These are brave and timely poems.” — RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Jury Citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“This poem witnesses the brutality of calving season with such visceral tenderness that one can only hold one’s gut and gasp aloud. It grabs the reader with its strange, emotionally and relationally complex opening image, and its recurrence is one the reader both clings to and dreads. Narratively enthralling and achingly rendered, it illustrates animal life in its most delicate and staccato form.” — \u003cem\u003eMalahat Review\u003c\/em\u003e’s 2019 Long Poem Prize Jury Citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Stintzi’s \u003cem\u003eThe Machete Tourist\u003c\/em\u003e sings with thoughtful observation and poetic crafting, asking its readers to examine our own sense of identity, prejudices, and – perhaps more importantly – the possibilities available to us to strengthen our network of a more connected spirit of humanity.” — Kim Fahner, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Wings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of John Elizabeth Stintzi's poetry collection Junebat is limited to 40 copies.","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover special edition","PublicationDate":"2020-04-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of John Elizabeth Stintzi's poetry collection Junebat is limited to 40 copies.","Subtitle":"Special Edition","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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Consider \u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Unmemntioable\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e a lease on humanity; the tenants are love and loss.” — \u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003eTelegraph Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Erín Moure and \u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Moure’s ambition is to transform the performance of poetry into poetry itself . . . it makes for a remarkable reading experience.” — \u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Heady, heartbreaking, visionary — the words to describe \u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e.” — \u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003eEvent \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A new book by Erín Moure is always an exciting event in Canadian literary history . . . 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Kapusta
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Erín Moure's poetry collection Kapusta is limited to 50 copies.
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In Kapusta poetry flourishes as a book "beyond the book," in a space of performance that starts and stops time.
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Through uncanny vignettes, absurdist narratives, animistic parables, associative lyrics, and experimental gambits that resist categorization, Harvey explores and confronts the ways in which we are all curiously, delightfully, heartbreakingly entangled: with each other, with the environment we inhabit, and with the psychological environments that inhabit us.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","EAN":"9781487010690","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"satched megan gail coles;surrealism;humour;imagery;poetry bash;anansi poetry;glorious frazzled beings angelique lalonde;american poetry;canadian poetry","NumberOfPages":"96","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR MIKKO HARVEY AND \u003cem\u003eLET THE WORLD HAVE YOU\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Dazzling, heartfelt poems populated by inventive narrative and uncanny imagery. \u003cem \u003eLet the World Have You \u003c\/em\u003eis a treasure trove of playfully serious odes to being.” — Mark Leidner, author of \u003cem \u003eReturning the Sword to the Stone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Mikko Harvey is a poet with a quirky sensibility. To me, his casual, melancholic, funny poems are like sugar water for the hummingbird.” — Henri Cole, author of \u003cem \u003eBlizzard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR MIKKO HARVEY AND \u003cem\u003eUNSTABLE NEIGHBOURHOOD RABBIT\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n“Bizarre but compelling, Harvey’s poetic ‘playground’ is fascinating territory.” ― \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n“A startling debut.” ― \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n“Lively, sometimes intense, and linguistically inventive.” ― \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n“All words are adult, said Maurice Blanchot. And this book is saying to words (like ‘nature’) die! *gently* die! And be born again: babies, children, reindeer. So, don't read this book if you don’t want to think like a child (and don’t read it if you don't think childthought is absolutely magnified). Don’t read this book if you don’t want to lose your I. Don’t read this book if you don’t want to cry.” ― Darcie Dennigan, author of \u003cem\u003eMadame X\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePalace of Subatomic Bliss\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n“In \u003cem\u003eUnstable Neighbourhood Rabbit\u003c\/em\u003e, as it should be the case, natural elements act like neighbours and old friends, people act like animals, animals act like people, names determine fate, rice and goats and bowls determine how we interpret the world, our palms control our thinking, our imaginations are celebrated and called upon to take responsibility for what they call into existence, our imaginations transform us as necessary, everything is a sign, everything is heroic and epic and fragile, everything matters, the wind can undo our shoelaces.” — Dara Wier, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eReverse Rapture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nPRAISE FOR MIKKO HARVEY\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n“[Harvey] is able to transform ordinary experiences into revelations about the world and our place within it. These poems blend humor and observation, often in close proximity, and make excellent use of voice, whether spoken or filtered through narration. A thoroughly commendable series of poems, and I am thankful for having the opportunity to read them.” — Mary Biddinger, author of \u003cem\u003eA Sunny Place with Adequate Water\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSmall Enterprise\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n“The author of these poems has an energy that promises a life in poetry and also delights this reader. The poems are witty, smart, fun, and written with authority … they are memorable. I kept coming back to them and enjoying them all over again … maybe the best test of all for the best poetry.” — Kelly Cherry, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Woman Who\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Retreats of Thought\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMikko’s first collection, \u003cem\u003eUnstable Neighbourhood Rabbit\u003c\/em\u003e, was highly acclaimed and well reviewed upon its original release.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eAccessible! The poems in this collection appeal to readers who don’t usually like poetry: they are surreal, funny, and creepy.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Long_description_1":"Mikko’s first collection, Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit, was highly acclaimed and well reviewed upon its original release.\r\nAccessible! 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Let the World Have You
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award finalist Mikko Harvey’s second collection takes readers into a kaleidoscopic world that is and is not the world we know.
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Liar
From the grotesque to the beautiful, Lynn Crosbie's depiction of the lover adrift alters how we think of the love poem.
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{"id":6582745038907,"title":"Little Dogs","handle":"little-dogs","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty years after the publication of his debut, \u003cem\u003eLittle Dogs: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e brings together selections from Michael Crummey’s first four books of poetry with a significant offering of new work. In this collection, Crummey emerges not only as the master storyteller we know him to be, but also as one of our great poets of connection. Whether reporting from a solitary room or a shared bed, recalling the barbed delirium of adolescence, the subtler negotiations of mature love, or the generational echoes between fathers and sons, these poems are deeply engaged in the business of living with others. Of living with the absence of those who have shaped and sometimes scarred us. Unafraid of confronting the darker corners of desire or of digging into the past to make sense of the present, Crummey has already given us a tremendous body of work. \u003cem\u003eLittle Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e showcases the evolution of one the most distinct and celebrated Canadian writers of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:11:13-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:11:13-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Crummey Michael","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2016-04-09"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"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":39403441487931,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000967","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Little Dogs - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":349,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000967","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8d135a58-bdc6-4884-8947-2596002a06b0.jpg?v=1634628242"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8d135a58-bdc6-4884-8947-2596002a06b0.jpg?v=1634628242","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20956319088699,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8d135a58-bdc6-4884-8947-2596002a06b0.jpg?v=1634628242"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8d135a58-bdc6-4884-8947-2596002a06b0.jpg?v=1634628242","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty years after the publication of his debut, \u003cem\u003eLittle Dogs: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e brings together selections from Michael Crummey’s first four books of poetry with a significant offering of new work. In this collection, Crummey emerges not only as the master storyteller we know him to be, but also as one of our great poets of connection. Whether reporting from a solitary room or a shared bed, recalling the barbed delirium of adolescence, the subtler negotiations of mature love, or the generational echoes between fathers and sons, these poems are deeply engaged in the business of living with others. Of living with the absence of those who have shaped and sometimes scarred us. Unafraid of confronting the darker corners of desire or of digging into the past to make sense of the present, Crummey has already given us a tremendous body of work. \u003cem\u003eLittle Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e showcases the evolution of one the most distinct and celebrated Canadian writers of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Little Dogs
Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems showcases the evolution of one the most distinct and celebrated Canadian writers of his generation.
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{"id":6582745235515,"title":"Little Theatres","handle":"little-theatres","description":"\u003cp\u003eErin Moure is one of the most consistently innovative, radically imaginative poets at work in Canada. With each book, Moure seeks to re-create writing from the ground up.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e appears at a pressing historical crossroads, when we most need our language to be made restive again. Like the agua\/water running through the collection -- at once lingual exchange, submersion, balm, and sustenance -- Moure's voices are as fluid, clear, animated, and shimmering with light and life as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eGalician and English intermingle in this collection like currents of the same river. How can we open the infinitely small spaces of \u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e in our own lives? Can they take the place of war? And who, exactly, writes them? Erin Moure? The unjustly ignored thinker Elisa Sampedrin? Or a speaker inside us finally willing to give \u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e its due attention? An intimate act of cultural and personal interflow, this work from a major poet has the power to alter our perception of where, and on what scale, the action is taking place.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:11:16-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:11:16-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2005-04-01","Translated by Moure Erín"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1695,"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":39403441684539,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887847288","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Little Theatres - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1695,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887847288","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_effe681c-d1c7-445f-bba5-4c62f488b83c.jpg?v=1621095354"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_effe681c-d1c7-445f-bba5-4c62f488b83c.jpg?v=1621095354","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20452531667003,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.735,"height":539,"width":396,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_effe681c-d1c7-445f-bba5-4c62f488b83c.jpg?v=1621095354"},"aspect_ratio":0.735,"height":539,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_effe681c-d1c7-445f-bba5-4c62f488b83c.jpg?v=1621095354","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eErin Moure is one of the most consistently innovative, radically imaginative poets at work in Canada. With each book, Moure seeks to re-create writing from the ground up.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e appears at a pressing historical crossroads, when we most need our language to be made restive again. Like the agua\/water running through the collection -- at once lingual exchange, submersion, balm, and sustenance -- Moure's voices are as fluid, clear, animated, and shimmering with light and life as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eGalician and English intermingle in this collection like currents of the same river. How can we open the infinitely small spaces of \u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e in our own lives? Can they take the place of war? And who, exactly, writes them? Erin Moure? The unjustly ignored thinker Elisa Sampedrin? Or a speaker inside us finally willing to give \u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e its due attention? An intimate act of cultural and personal interflow, this work from a major poet has the power to alter our perception of where, and on what scale, the action is taking place.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Little Theatres
Moure's poetic voices are as fluid, clear, animated, and shimmering with light and life as ever.
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{"id":6582747234363,"title":"Mean","handle":"mean","description":"Mean is a stunning exploration of the threshold and divide between our primeval origins and the meanness of our everyday lives. In this collection, the pastoral collides with the concrete terrain of motorbikes, prisons, and chainlink to capture our constructed isolation and our buried, yet resonant, connection to the land and seascapes that surround us.\r\n\r\nKen Babstock's poetic voice is wholly original -- searing and pure in its realism, evocative and affecting in its search for a place to call its own. Mean won the Atlantic Poetry Prize (1999) and the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award (1999).","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:11:44-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:11:44-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Babstock Ken","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 1999-04-01"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1895,"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":39403444142139,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887846342","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Mean - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887846342","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413590294587,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849145","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Mean - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887849145","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413590360123,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770896925","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Mean - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770896925","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a3463717-1eac-442b-83f3-5d849bd9f984.jpg?v=1621099738"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a3463717-1eac-442b-83f3-5d849bd9f984.jpg?v=1621099738","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20452906401851,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":611,"width":396,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a3463717-1eac-442b-83f3-5d849bd9f984.jpg?v=1621099738"},"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":611,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a3463717-1eac-442b-83f3-5d849bd9f984.jpg?v=1621099738","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"Mean is a stunning exploration of the threshold and divide between our primeval origins and the meanness of our everyday lives. In this collection, the pastoral collides with the concrete terrain of motorbikes, prisons, and chainlink to capture our constructed isolation and our buried, yet resonant, connection to the land and seascapes that surround us.\r\n\r\nKen Babstock's poetic voice is wholly original -- searing and pure in its realism, evocative and affecting in its search for a place to call its own. Mean won the Atlantic Poetry Prize (1999) and the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award (1999)."}
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Mean
Ken Babstock's award-winning debut collection captures our isolation and reconnects us.
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{"id":6582747594811,"title":"Methodist Hatchet","handle":"methodist-hatchet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMarooned in the shiftless, unnamed space between a map of the world and a world of false maps, the poems in \u003cem\u003eMethodist Hatchet\u003c\/em\u003e cling to what’s necessary from each, while attempting to sing their own bewilderment. Carolinian forest echoes back as construction cranes in an urban skyline. Second Life returns as wildlife, as childhood. Even the poem itself -- the idea of a poem -- as a unit of understanding is shadowed by a great unknowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFearless in its language, its trajectories and frames of reference, \u003cem\u003eMethodist Hatchet\u003c\/em\u003e gazes upon the objects of its attention until they rattle and exude their auras of strangeness. It is this strangeness, this mysterious stillness, that is the big heart of Ken Babstock’s playful, fierce, intelligent book.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:11:52-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:11:52-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Babstock Ken","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2011-04-30"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":2295,"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":39403445321787,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887842931","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Methodist Hatchet - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":150,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887842931","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413591474235,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770891586","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Methodist Hatchet - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770891586","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413591834683,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770896932","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Methodist Hatchet - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770896932","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_028b8123-8b83-4d30-b759-31e39a01ceaa.jpg?v=1621100258"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_028b8123-8b83-4d30-b759-31e39a01ceaa.jpg?v=1621100258","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20452965711931,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"width":400,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_028b8123-8b83-4d30-b759-31e39a01ceaa.jpg?v=1621100258"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_028b8123-8b83-4d30-b759-31e39a01ceaa.jpg?v=1621100258","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMarooned in the shiftless, unnamed space between a map of the world and a world of false maps, the poems in \u003cem\u003eMethodist Hatchet\u003c\/em\u003e cling to what’s necessary from each, while attempting to sing their own bewilderment. Carolinian forest echoes back as construction cranes in an urban skyline. Second Life returns as wildlife, as childhood. Even the poem itself -- the idea of a poem -- as a unit of understanding is shadowed by a great unknowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFearless in its language, its trajectories and frames of reference, \u003cem\u003eMethodist Hatchet\u003c\/em\u003e gazes upon the objects of its attention until they rattle and exude their auras of strangeness. It is this strangeness, this mysterious stillness, that is the big heart of Ken Babstock’s playful, fierce, intelligent book.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Methodist Hatchet
The exhilarating fourth collection from one of Canada’s most talented poets, Governor General’s Literary Award winner Ken Babstock.
