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{"id":6815266865211,"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":"2022-03-24T12:06:56-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T09:48:38-04:00","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":40209202937915,"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":"shopify","barcode":"9781487000967","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_995c9b1d-a64a-4a21-bee6-6c32fe35da28.jpg?v=1655696083"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_995c9b1d-a64a-4a21-bee6-6c32fe35da28.jpg?v=1655696083","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22245143838779,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_995c9b1d-a64a-4a21-bee6-6c32fe35da28.jpg?v=1655696083"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_995c9b1d-a64a-4a21-bee6-6c32fe35da28.jpg?v=1655696083","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":6815266799675,"title":"Box Kite special hardcover edition","handle":"box-kite-special-hardcover-edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Baziju's poetry collection Box Kite is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A piece of paper with writing on it is flat, but when what is written on that paper fills the mind of a reader, it takes off into the wind like a box kite on a windy day,\" writes Baziju — the shared voice of poets Roo Borson and Kim Maltman. This exquisite, collaboratively written sequence of prose poems, unfolding through rich, delicate imagery, journeys through streets and gardens, houses and temples, cities and countryside, Canada and China. It is a meditation on the way we travel between places and between times, and how words and ideas travel between languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaziju explores the literature of China, from centuries past to the present, exploring, at the same time, the meaning of hope and of home: childhood homes, the homes we grow into, and the homes in our minds. In Lu Xun's classic story \"My Old Home,\" the hero returns from a distant city to the home he left two decades earlier. Hope, he ponders, \"is just like the roads of the earth… . [T]o begin with the earth has no roads, but where many people pass, there a road is made.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese sensual, deeply personal prose poems ponder change, loss, friendship, and belonging. In a life in which every detail has significance, the smallest observation grows, and spreads like the branches of wisteria.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T12:06:55-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T09:48:30-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","By (author) Borson Roo","By (author) Maltman Kim","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2016-04-09"],"price":3500,"price_min":3500,"price_max":3500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40209202643003,"title":"hardcover special edition","option1":"hardcover special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899643","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Box Kite special hardcover edition - hardcover special edition","public_title":"hardcover special edition","options":["hardcover special edition"],"price":3500,"weight":386,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770899643","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2a3827f5-8f57-48df-a913-cc9d8cb52071.jpg?v=1655626942"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2a3827f5-8f57-48df-a913-cc9d8cb52071.jpg?v=1655626942","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22243439706171,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.5,"height":1365,"width":2048,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2a3827f5-8f57-48df-a913-cc9d8cb52071.jpg?v=1655626942"},"aspect_ratio":1.5,"height":1365,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2a3827f5-8f57-48df-a913-cc9d8cb52071.jpg?v=1655626942","width":2048}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Baziju's poetry collection Box Kite is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A piece of paper with writing on it is flat, but when what is written on that paper fills the mind of a reader, it takes off into the wind like a box kite on a windy day,\" writes Baziju — the shared voice of poets Roo Borson and Kim Maltman. This exquisite, collaboratively written sequence of prose poems, unfolding through rich, delicate imagery, journeys through streets and gardens, houses and temples, cities and countryside, Canada and China. It is a meditation on the way we travel between places and between times, and how words and ideas travel between languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaziju explores the literature of China, from centuries past to the present, exploring, at the same time, the meaning of hope and of home: childhood homes, the homes we grow into, and the homes in our minds. In Lu Xun's classic story \"My Old Home,\" the hero returns from a distant city to the home he left two decades earlier. Hope, he ponders, \"is just like the roads of the earth… . [T]o begin with the earth has no roads, but where many people pass, there a road is made.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese sensual, deeply personal prose poems ponder change, loss, friendship, and belonging. In a life in which every detail has significance, the smallest observation grows, and spreads like the branches of wisteria.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487002718","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781770893627","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781770894815","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKIM MALTMAN\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, theoretical particle physicist, and occasional translator who has published five books of solo poetry, over two hundred papers in the scientific literature, and three books of collaborative poetry, most recently \u003cem\u003eBox Kite\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 2016. In addition to recent solo work which has appeared under a variety of heteronyms, he is involved, in collaboration with Roo Borson, in ongoing translations of the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai and Song Dynasty poet Su Shi. Past honours include the CBC Literary Prize, and, with collaborators Roo Borson and Andy Patton, the Malahat Poetry Prize, the Earle Birney Prize, and two National Magazine Award finalist appearances. Perhaps his most unusual literary credit is having served as consulting dog poetry editor for André Alexis’s novel \u003cem\u003eFifteen Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Toronto with poet and collaborator Roo Borson. Baziju are currently at work on a new manuscript project called Short Moral Tales.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKIM MALTMAN\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, theoretical particle physicist, and occasional translator who has published five books of solo poetry, over two hundred papers in the scientific literature, and three books of collaborative poetry, most recently \u003cem\u003eBox Kite\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 2016. In addition to recent solo work which has appeared under a variety of heteronyms, he is involved, in collaboration with Roo Borson, in ongoing translations of the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai and Song Dynasty poet Su Shi. 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This exquisite, collaboratively written sequence of prose poems, unfolding through rich, delicate imagery, journeys through streets and gardens, houses and temples, cities and countryside, Canada and China. It is a meditation on the way we travel between places and between times, and how words and ideas travel between languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaziju explores the literature of China, from centuries past to the present, exploring, at the same time, the meaning of hope and of home: childhood homes, the homes we grow into, and the homes in our minds. In Lu Xun's classic story \"My Old Home,\" the hero returns from a distant city to the home he left two decades earlier. Hope, he ponders, \"is just like the roads of the earth… . [T]o begin with the earth has no roads, but where many people pass, there a road is made.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese sensual, deeply personal prose poems ponder change, loss, friendship, and belonging. 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Box Kite special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Baziju's poetry collection Box Kite is limited to 50 copies.
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{"id":6814264197179,"title":"Xiphoid Process","handle":"xiphoid-process","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNine years in the making, award-winning poet Kevin Connolly’s new collection extends its author’s investigation of identity, authority, intention, and authenticity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is public poetry? In an age of tweets and trolls, what should it even try to be? Through revision, redaction, ventriloquism, homage, self-sabotage, and outright plunder, the poems in Connolly’s \u003ci\u003eXiphoid Process\u003c\/i\u003e interrogate the alleged futility and alleged insight of mid-life. Are we who we are simply because we’d otherwise be nothing? Or are we (more hopefully) something parked, for a time, in time, trying to make something useful out of the experience? Walt Whitman, Tom Petty, Alec Baldwin, Doug Stanhope, Journey, Judd Nelson, Billy Ripken, Johnny Weissmuller, Don Felder, Lindsay Lohan, Shiprock, NM, the police blotter at Point Reyes Station, California, and the moons of Saturn are all poised to make their case in the poet’s latest deliberations.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T09:39:49-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:28:11-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Starred Reviews","By (author) Connolly Kevin","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2017-04-08"],"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":40206696316987,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001865","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Xiphoid Process - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":160,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487001865","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a0c46dfe-febc-43a2-87ca-107123b927d6.jpg?v=1678601587"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a0c46dfe-febc-43a2-87ca-107123b927d6.jpg?v=1678601587","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324561801275,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a0c46dfe-febc-43a2-87ca-107123b927d6.jpg?v=1678601587"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a0c46dfe-febc-43a2-87ca-107123b927d6.jpg?v=1678601587","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNine years in the making, award-winning poet Kevin Connolly’s new collection extends its author’s investigation of identity, authority, intention, and authenticity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is public poetry? In an age of tweets and trolls, what should it even try to be? Through revision, redaction, ventriloquism, homage, self-sabotage, and outright plunder, the poems in Connolly’s \u003ci\u003eXiphoid Process\u003c\/i\u003e interrogate the alleged futility and alleged insight of mid-life. Are we who we are simply because we’d otherwise be nothing? Or are we (more hopefully) something parked, for a time, in time, trying to make something useful out of the experience? Walt Whitman, Tom Petty, Alec Baldwin, Doug Stanhope, Journey, Judd Nelson, Billy Ripken, Johnny Weissmuller, Don Felder, Lindsay Lohan, Shiprock, NM, the police blotter at Point Reyes Station, California, and the moons of Saturn are all poised to make their case in the poet’s latest deliberations.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Xiphoid Process
Award-winning Kevin Connolly’s new collection extends its author’s investigation of identity, authority, intention, and authenticity.
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{"id":6814263443515,"title":"Heart Residence","handle":"heart-residence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA landmark collection from one of Canada’s literary icons, and the founder of House of Anansi Press, \u003ci\u003eHeart Residence\u003c\/i\u003e collects for the first time work from all corners of Dennis Lee’s extraordinary career.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is an exhilarating revelation. No other poet in Canada has the depth and range of Dennis Lee — jazzman, jester, and metaphysician, hardball political thinker and passionate lover, he has been publishing poems for fifty years. His first book, \u003ci\u003eKingdom of Absence\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1967, was the founding publication of House of Anansi Press. Since then Lee has produced work across the poetic spectrum, from nursery rhymes and skipping songs to uncompromising moral introspection to full-tilt love songs, plangent psalms, and ecstatic, solitary prayer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are poets’ poets and people’s poets. And then there are those few who are neither and both: the few who become, over time, part of the warp and weft of their culture. \u003ci\u003eHeart Residence\u003c\/i\u003e collects, for the first time, work from all corners of this extraordinary career. In its verve and variety, this is a one-of-a-kind collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:51-05:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:27:54-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Lee Dennis","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2017-04-08"],"price":2995,"price_min":2995,"price_max":2995,"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":40206695530555,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001490","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Heart Residence - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2995,"weight":720,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487001490","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_b3cc354a-fcc9-4429-8c0f-7de8232b665d.jpg?v=1678601480"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_b3cc354a-fcc9-4429-8c0f-7de8232b665d.jpg?v=1678601480","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324561539131,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.657,"height":2625,"width":1725,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_b3cc354a-fcc9-4429-8c0f-7de8232b665d.jpg?v=1678601480"},"aspect_ratio":0.657,"height":2625,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_b3cc354a-fcc9-4429-8c0f-7de8232b665d.jpg?v=1678601480","width":1725}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA landmark collection from one of Canada’s literary icons, and the founder of House of Anansi Press, \u003ci\u003eHeart Residence\u003c\/i\u003e collects for the first time work from all corners of Dennis Lee’s extraordinary career.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is an exhilarating revelation. No other poet in Canada has the depth and range of Dennis Lee — jazzman, jester, and metaphysician, hardball political thinker and passionate lover, he has been publishing poems for fifty years. His first book, \u003ci\u003eKingdom of Absence\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1967, was the founding publication of House of Anansi Press. Since then Lee has produced work across the poetic spectrum, from nursery rhymes and skipping songs to uncompromising moral introspection to full-tilt love songs, plangent psalms, and ecstatic, solitary prayer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are poets’ poets and people’s poets. And then there are those few who are neither and both: the few who become, over time, part of the warp and weft of their culture. \u003ci\u003eHeart Residence\u003c\/i\u003e collects, for the first time, work from all corners of this extraordinary career. In its verve and variety, this is a one-of-a-kind collection.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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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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The Corpses of the Future
A powerful collection of poems by Lynn Crosbie that tells the story of her father’s battle with frontotemporal dementia and blindness, following a stroke.
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{"id":6813806657595,"title":"Power Politics","handle":"power-politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing and prophetic author of \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, Margaret Atwood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood’s \u003ci\u003ePower Politics\u003c\/i\u003e startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple, universal. Clear, direct, wry, and unrelenting — Atwood’s poetic powers are honed to perfection in this seminal work from her early career.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-23T13:02:49-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T09:25:42-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","Adult Poetry","By (author) Atwood Margaret","Feminist Reads","Introduction by Zwicky Jan","pub date: 2018-03-06"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"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":40205725990971,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487004552","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Power Politics - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":100,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487004552","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205976469563,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849121","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Power Politics - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887849121","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205977157691,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897366","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Power Politics - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897366","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_de5d8510-3276-48d9-a696-e547dc2abcbf.jpg?v=1678600256"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_de5d8510-3276-48d9-a696-e547dc2abcbf.jpg?v=1678600256","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324551970875,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_de5d8510-3276-48d9-a696-e547dc2abcbf.jpg?v=1678600256"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_de5d8510-3276-48d9-a696-e547dc2abcbf.jpg?v=1678600256","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing and prophetic author of \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, Margaret Atwood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood’s \u003ci\u003ePower Politics\u003c\/i\u003e startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple, universal. Clear, direct, wry, and unrelenting — Atwood’s poetic powers are honed to perfection in this seminal work from her early career.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487004286","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487006662","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770892606","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ Canadian","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMARGARET ATWOOD\u003c\/strong\u003e, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. Her latest novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Testaments\u003c\/em\u003e, is the long-awaited sequel to \u003cem\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/em\u003e, now an award-winning TV series. 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It is a measure of her achievement that, over decades, these masterful poems continue to speak with undiminished accuracy.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Anne Michaels","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Twenty-five years after its initial publication, Power Politics remains a path-breaking lyric utterance on sexual politics and human survival, unflinching in its emotional honesty. Beyond truth, Atwood writes, tenacity . . . and no poet has proven more prescient or more courageous in this pursuit. The reappearance of this work is an occasion to be celebrated.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Src":"Carolyn Forché","OtherText_Accolades_2":"The pleasure of reading these poems today is not only in realizing the longevity of their power — the sting is still there — but in experiencing them anew in the light of the poetry and fiction written in the twenty-five years since.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Linda Hutcheon","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Astonishing, notorious, a classic — Power Politics, twenty-five years after its first publication, still negotiates with awesome presence of mind the definitions of heterosexual eros: hook and eye; fact and weapon; truth and brutality. Atwood’s terse, unsparing, and often comically incisive lines are a guided tour of the knotted Laingian underworld of a love affair. The poems are inspired and fluent. 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A groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing, Margaret Atwood.
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Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Mikko Harvey's poetry collection Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit is limited to 50 copies.
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Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit
Oneiric, fabulist, hilarious, surreal. No single term seems to sufficiently contain Mikko Harvey’s delightful, cheeky, absurdist, inimitable debut.
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Emma Healey’s provocative collection of prose poems explores the urgent themes of feminism, mental illness, sexuality and artistic practice.
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The Sparrow
The Sparrow is a career-spanning selection of A. F. Moritz's internationally acclaimed poetry.
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Furious
The early Governor General’s Literary Award–winning collection from one of Canada’s most profoundly inventive and eminent poets.
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river woman special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Katherena Vermette's poetry collection river woman is limited to 50 copies.
