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Heart Residence
A landmark collection from one of Canada’s literary icons, and the co-founder of House of Anansi Press.
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{"id":6582739042363,"title":"How to Be Happy Though Human","handle":"how-to-be-happy-though-human","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA timely collection of new and previously published work by one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed poets, \u003ci\u003eHow to Be Happy Though Human \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces Kate Camp’s eclectic and musical poetry to international audiences for the first time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is Kate Camp’s seventh book of poetry and the first to be published outside New Zealand. 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Incorporating a grouping of new, previously unpublished work and a selection of important poems from her six earlier collections, this volume introduces North American readers to poetry that has been described by critics as “fearless,” “mesmerizing,” and “containing a surprising radicalism and power.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCamp’s work is recognized for its wide-ranging and eclectic subject matter, its technical control, and its musicality, with pop culture, high culture, the domestic confessional, close observation, and found language featured as recurring elements of style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA timely retrospective that represents a new chapter in Camp’s career, \u003ci\u003eHow to Be Happy Though Human\u003c\/i\u003e promises to gain a wide readership for this thoughtful, engaging, and popular writer.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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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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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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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\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n“\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\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. 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Junebat special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of John Elizabeth Stintzi's poetry collection Junebat is limited to 40 copies.
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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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{"id":6582742876219,"title":"Kapusta","handle":"kapusta-1","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eKapusta\u003c\/em\u003e, Moure performs silence on the page and aloud, writing \"gesture\" and \"voice\" to explore the relation between responsibility and place, body, and memory, sorrow and sonority. Here, poetry flourishes as a book \"beyond the book,\" in a space of performance that starts and stops time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e, Ern Moure's avatar Elisa Sampedrn first spoke about theatre and the need for smallness in order to articulate what is huge. Sampedrn, who reappears in the translation mystery \u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e as the translator of a language she does not speak, vanishes later in \u003cem\u003eThe Unmemntioable\u003c\/em\u003e when the split in human identity that results from war and displacement is acknowledged. Now, in \u003cem\u003eKapusta\u003c\/em\u003e, the character E. is alone, in the smallest of spaces - the bench behind her grandmother's woodstove in Alberta. Here, E. struggles to face the largest of historical and imagined spaces - the Holocaust in Western Ukraine, and to understand her mother's silence at the sadness of her forebears, her \"salt-shaker love.\" \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:10:43-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:10:43-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Moure Erín","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2015-04-09"],"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":39403436179515,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770894815","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Kapusta - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":272,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770894815","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_96648c84-36cb-4cdf-b4ad-f501117808cb.jpg?v=1621091343"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_96648c84-36cb-4cdf-b4ad-f501117808cb.jpg?v=1621091343","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20452171415611,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.735,"height":600,"width":441,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_96648c84-36cb-4cdf-b4ad-f501117808cb.jpg?v=1621091343"},"aspect_ratio":0.735,"height":600,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_96648c84-36cb-4cdf-b4ad-f501117808cb.jpg?v=1621091343","width":441}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eKapusta\u003c\/em\u003e, Moure performs silence on the page and aloud, writing \"gesture\" and \"voice\" to explore the relation between responsibility and place, body, and memory, sorrow and sonority. Here, poetry flourishes as a book \"beyond the book,\" in a space of performance that starts and stops time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLittle Theatres\u003c\/em\u003e, Ern Moure's avatar Elisa Sampedrn first spoke about theatre and the need for smallness in order to articulate what is huge. Sampedrn, who reappears in the translation mystery \u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e as the translator of a language she does not speak, vanishes later in \u003cem\u003eThe Unmemntioable\u003c\/em\u003e when the split in human identity that results from war and displacement is acknowledged. Now, in \u003cem\u003eKapusta\u003c\/em\u003e, the character E. is alone, in the smallest of spaces - the bench behind her grandmother's woodstove in Alberta. Here, E. struggles to face the largest of historical and imagined spaces - the Holocaust in Western Ukraine, and to understand her mother's silence at the sadness of her forebears, her \"salt-shaker love.\" \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Her strength as a poet is simple diction, she toys with layout; how the words also act as visuals on the page . . . 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
In Kapusta poetry flourishes as a book "beyond the book," in a space of performance that starts and stops time.
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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_79e075ab-0e80-4e78-b4c1-9dfb3ca0d898.jpg?v=1621094736"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_79e075ab-0e80-4e78-b4c1-9dfb3ca0d898.jpg?v=1621094736","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20452478058555,"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_79e075ab-0e80-4e78-b4c1-9dfb3ca0d898.jpg?v=1621094736"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_79e075ab-0e80-4e78-b4c1-9dfb3ca0d898.jpg?v=1621094736","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=1621095353"},"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=1621095353","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-1","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":6582747562043,"title":"Metaphysical Dog","handle":"metaphysical-dog","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the National Book Award, and selected for The Globe Books 100 and New York Times 100 Most Noteable Books in 2013. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn a career-defining work, Frank Bidart brings us everything that makes him so remarkable in these indelible poems of sex, art, desire, and beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"Those Nights\" Frank Bidart writes: \"We who could get \/ somewhere through \/ words through \/ sex could not.\" Words and sex, art and flesh: in Metaphysical Dog, Bidart explores their nexus. The result stands among this deeply adventurous poet’s most powerful and achieved work, an emotionally naked, fearlessly candid journey through many of the central axes, the central conflicts of his life, and ours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNear the end of the book, Bidart writes: \"In adolescence, you thought your work ancient work: to decipher at last human beings’ relation to God. Decipher love. To make what was once whole whole again: or to see why it never should have been thought whole.\" This \"ancient work\" reflects what the poet sees as fundamental in human feeling, what psychologists and mystics have called the \"hunger for the Absolute\" — a hunger as fundamental as any physical hunger. This hunger must confront the elusiveness of the Absolute, our self-deluding, failed glimpses of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is one of the most fascinating and ambitious books of poetry in many years.\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","Anansi International","By (author) Bidart Frank","pub date: 2013-05-18"],"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":39403445289019,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770893627","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Metaphysical Dog - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":209,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770893627","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2d9adc6c-f66c-4919-9cd4-7064758adf71.jpg?v=1621099548"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2d9adc6c-f66c-4919-9cd4-7064758adf71.jpg?v=1621099548","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20452890607675,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":600,"width":400,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2d9adc6c-f66c-4919-9cd4-7064758adf71.jpg?v=1621099548"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":600,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2d9adc6c-f66c-4919-9cd4-7064758adf71.jpg?v=1621099548","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the National Book Award, and selected for The Globe Books 100 and New York Times 100 Most Noteable Books in 2013. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn a career-defining work, Frank Bidart brings us everything that makes him so remarkable in these indelible poems of sex, art, desire, and beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"Those Nights\" Frank Bidart writes: \"We who could get \/ somewhere through \/ words through \/ sex could not.\" Words and sex, art and flesh: in Metaphysical Dog, Bidart explores their nexus. The result stands among this deeply adventurous poet’s most powerful and achieved work, an emotionally naked, fearlessly candid journey through many of the central axes, the central conflicts of his life, and ours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNear the end of the book, Bidart writes: \"In adolescence, you thought your work ancient work: to decipher at last human beings’ relation to God. Decipher love. To make what was once whole whole again: or to see why it never should have been thought whole.\" This \"ancient work\" reflects what the poet sees as fundamental in human feeling, what psychologists and mystics have called the \"hunger for the Absolute\" — a hunger as fundamental as any physical hunger. This hunger must confront the elusiveness of the Absolute, our self-deluding, failed glimpses of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is one of the most fascinating and ambitious books of poetry in many years.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Metaphysical Dog
In a career-defining work, Frank Bidart brings us everything that makes him so remarkable in these indelible poems of sex, art, desire, and beauty.
