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{"id":6813787848763,"title":"river woman","handle":"river-woman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGovernor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, \u003ci\u003eriver woman\u003c\/i\u003e, explores her relationship to nature — its destructive power and beauty, its timelessness, and its place in human history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning Métis poet and novelist Katherena Vermette’s second book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eriver woman\u003c\/i\u003e, examines and celebrates love as decolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist within all times. The poems are grounded in what feels like an eternal present, documenting moments of clarity that lift the speaker (and reader) out of the illusion of linear experience. This is what we mean when we describe a work of art as being timeless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the river they speak to, these poems return again and again to the same source in search of new ways to reconstruct what has been lost. Vermette suggests that it’s through language and the body ― particularly through language as it lives inside the body ― that a fragmented self might resurface as once again whole. This idea of breaking apart and coming back together is woven throughout the collection as the speaker contemplates the ongoing negotiation between the city, the land, and the water, and as she finds herself falling into trust with the ones she loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVermette honours the river as a woman ― her destructive power and beauty, her endurance, and her stories. These poems sing from a place where “words \/ transcend ceremony \/ into everyday” and “nothing \/ is inanimate.”\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-23T13:02:33-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T09:17:45-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Bestseller","Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Environmentalism","Adult Poetry","By (author) Vermette Katherena","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2018-09-25"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"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":40205700530235,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003463","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"river woman - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":140,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487003463","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205701808187,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003470","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"river woman - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487003470","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205702758459,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006266","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"river woman - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487006266","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0896f130-f196-49b1-8dae-8ac8da12f680.jpg?v=1717905120"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0896f130-f196-49b1-8dae-8ac8da12f680.jpg?v=1717905120","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24629797290043,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2473,"width":1600,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0896f130-f196-49b1-8dae-8ac8da12f680.jpg?v=1717905120"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2473,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0896f130-f196-49b1-8dae-8ac8da12f680.jpg?v=1717905120","width":1600}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGovernor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, \u003ci\u003eriver woman\u003c\/i\u003e, explores her relationship to nature — its destructive power and beauty, its timelessness, and its place in human history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning Métis poet and novelist Katherena Vermette’s second book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eriver woman\u003c\/i\u003e, examines and celebrates love as decolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist within all times. The poems are grounded in what feels like an eternal present, documenting moments of clarity that lift the speaker (and reader) out of the illusion of linear experience. This is what we mean when we describe a work of art as being timeless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the river they speak to, these poems return again and again to the same source in search of new ways to reconstruct what has been lost. Vermette suggests that it’s through language and the body ― particularly through language as it lives inside the body ― that a fragmented self might resurface as once again whole. This idea of breaking apart and coming back together is woven throughout the collection as the speaker contemplates the ongoing negotiation between the city, the land, and the water, and as she finds herself falling into trust with the ones she loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVermette honours the river as a woman ― her destructive power and beauty, her endurance, and her stories. These poems sing from a place where “words \/ transcend ceremony \/ into everyday” and “nothing \/ is inanimate.”\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e, is the winner of three Manitoba Book Awards and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and it was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and CBC Canada Reads.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Subjects \u0026amp; Themes \/ Nature","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"POETRY \/ Native American","BISACSubject_0":"POE023030","BISACSubject_1":"POE011000","BISACSubject_2":"POE015000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKATHERENA VERMETTE\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Métis writer from Treaty One territory, the heart of the Métis nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her first book, \u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e (The Muses Company), won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her NFB short documentary, \u003cem\u003ethis river\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Coup de Coeur at the Montreal First Peoples Festival and a Canadian Screen Award. Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e, is the winner of three Manitoba Book Awards and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and it was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and CBC Canada Reads.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Vermette, Katherena (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGovernor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, \u003ci\u003eriver woman\u003c\/i\u003e, explores her relationship to nature — its destructive power and beauty, its timelessness, and its place in human history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning Métis poet and novelist Katherena Vermette’s second book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eriver woman\u003c\/i\u003e, examines and celebrates love as decolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist within all times. The poems are grounded in what feels like an eternal present, documenting moments of clarity that lift the speaker (and reader) out of the illusion of linear experience. This is what we mean when we describe a work of art as being timeless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the river they speak to, these poems return again and again to the same source in search of new ways to reconstruct what has been lost. Vermette suggests that it’s through language and the body ― particularly through language as it lives inside the body ― that a fragmented self might resurface as once again whole. This idea of breaking apart and coming back together is woven throughout the collection as the speaker contemplates the ongoing negotiation between the city, the land, and the water, and as she finds herself falling into trust with the ones she loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVermette honours the river as a woman ― her destructive power and beauty, her endurance, and her stories. These poems sing from a place where “words \/ transcend ceremony \/ into everyday” and “nothing \/ is inanimate.”\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487003463","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487003463\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"truth and reconciliation; colonialism; nature; missing and murdered indigenous women; bipoc; indigenous; reconciliation; award winning author; climate change; Indigenous literature; Indigenous Stories; poems; this accident of being lost leanne betasomasake simpson; even this page is white vivek shraya; alicia elliott; ndn coping mechanisms billy ray belcourt; poetry lovers; collectors edition","NumberOfPages":"112","OtherText_Accolades_0":"In river woman, Vermette take us inside river, as a concept, a reality, and another world, and gently reveals the power, the resistance, and the sheer love of water, of life, and of all things Indigenous. Vermette’s poetics are sparse, haunting, and steeped in river story, and her poems come to me as river songs. There is a presencing rhythm to this work, revealing that which is and always has been, flowing right in front of us.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of This Accident of Being Lost","OtherText_Accolades_1":"In river woman, Katherena Vermette marshals the maternal energy of the river to spin the lyric poem into something that is awash with vitality. This ethic of care, which each section bears and ricochets about, has at its core a project of repair or nourishment, not just of the natural, but of those of us entangled with it. This us, Vermette deftly shows, is not an empty thing, but is instead teeming with Indigenous life — ‘we are the earth you are hurting.’ We are the river and, in this, we are without end, regardless of what history swells in us. Pick up this book and listen for the musicality of our beautiful rebellion!","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of This Wound is a World, winner of the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTERNATIONALLY RESPECTED:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eKatherena’s work has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies across the globe, including in Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond (Rosarium Press, Baltimore), and Kwe: Standing with Our Sisters (edited by Joseph Boyden, Penguin Random House Canada).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRELEVANT AND TIMELY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMuch attention has been drawn this year and last to Indigenous issues in North America, and in the United States particularly surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Indigenous voices and postcolonial issues are rising to the fore, and it’s becoming increasingly crucial to recognize and give space to these voices.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"These spare, imagistic poems live up to the words of the Vietnamese spiritual leader Thich Nhat Hanh, quoted in an epigraph: ‘If our hearts are big, we can be like the river.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"A book that is at once deeply personal and politically charged.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"Vermette’s new collection is a strong follow-up to her Governor General’s Award-winning debut, 2012’s North End Love Songs.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-09-25","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
river woman
Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature.
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{"id":6813781524539,"title":"The Long Take","handle":"the-long-take","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA stunning modern epic that innovatively combines noir narrative and lyrical poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/i\u003e follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can’t return home to rural Nova Scotia, and looks instead to the city for freedom, anonymity, and repair. As he finds his way from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco, we witness a crucial period of fracture in American history, one that also allowed film noir to flourish. The Dream had gone sour but — as those dark, classic movies made clear — the country needed outsiders to study and dramatize its new anxieties. Both an outsider and, gradually, an insider, Walker finds work as a journalist, and tries to piece his life together as America is beginning to come apart: riven by social and racial divisions, spiraling corruption, and the collapse of the inner cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn epic for the modern world, it is a tale of damaged people trying to find kindness in the world, of cynicism and paranoia, and of redemption. Robin Robertson's fluid verse pans with filmic immediacy across the postwar urban scene — and into the heart of an unforgettable character. \u003ci\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/i\u003e is a genre-crossing work of stunning originality, beauty, and immediacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-23T13:02:29-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T09:15:17-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Anansi International","By (author) Robertson Robin","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2018-10-30"],"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":40205692633147,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006242","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Long Take - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":320,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487006242","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205693452347,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006259","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Long Take - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487006259","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205693780027,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006631","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Long Take - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487006631","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_04d8114d-57ab-42e6-9a87-38d8d364e0be.jpg?v=1655627825"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_04d8114d-57ab-42e6-9a87-38d8d364e0be.jpg?v=1655627825","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22243471065147,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_04d8114d-57ab-42e6-9a87-38d8d364e0be.jpg?v=1655627825"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_04d8114d-57ab-42e6-9a87-38d8d364e0be.jpg?v=1655627825","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA stunning modern epic that innovatively combines noir narrative and lyrical poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/i\u003e follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can’t return home to rural Nova Scotia, and looks instead to the city for freedom, anonymity, and repair. As he finds his way from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco, we witness a crucial period of fracture in American history, one that also allowed film noir to flourish. The Dream had gone sour but — as those dark, classic movies made clear — the country needed outsiders to study and dramatize its new anxieties. Both an outsider and, gradually, an insider, Walker finds work as a journalist, and tries to piece his life together as America is beginning to come apart: riven by social and racial divisions, spiraling corruption, and the collapse of the inner cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn epic for the modern world, it is a tale of damaged people trying to find kindness in the world, of cynicism and paranoia, and of redemption. Robin Robertson's fluid verse pans with filmic immediacy across the postwar urban scene — and into the heart of an unforgettable character. \u003ci\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/i\u003e is a genre-crossing work of stunning originality, beauty, and immediacy.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487001988","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487007218","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770890336","BASICMainSubject":"POE014000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ Epic","BiographicalNote":"Robin Robertson is from the northeast coast of Scotland and now lives in London. His first collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eA Painted Field\u003c\/em\u003e, won numerous awards, including the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection and the Scottish First Book of the Year Award. His second collection, \u003cem\u003eSlow Air\u003c\/em\u003e, appeared in 2002, his third, \u003cem\u003eSwithering\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection and was a finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, and his fourth, \u003cem\u003eThe Wrecking Light\u003c\/em\u003e, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, the Costa Poetry Award, and the Forward Poetry Prize. His work appears regularly in the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2004 he received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in London.","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Epic","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"FICTION \/ Noir","BISACSubject_0":"POE014000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC019000","BISACSubject_2":"FIC062000","ContributorBio_0":"Robin Robertson is from the northeast coast of Scotland and now lives in London. His first collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eA Painted Field\u003c\/em\u003e, won numerous awards, including the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection and the Scottish First Book of the Year Award. His second collection, \u003cem\u003eSlow Air\u003c\/em\u003e, appeared in 2002, his third, \u003cem\u003eSwithering\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection and was a finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, and his fourth, \u003cem\u003eThe Wrecking Light\u003c\/em\u003e, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, the Costa Poetry Award, and the Forward Poetry Prize. His work appears regularly in the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2004 he received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in London.","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Robertson, Robin","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA stunning modern epic that innovatively combines noir narrative and lyrical poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/i\u003e follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can’t return home to rural Nova Scotia, and looks instead to the city for freedom, anonymity, and repair. As he finds his way from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco, we witness a crucial period of fracture in American history, one that also allowed film noir to flourish. The Dream had gone sour but — as those dark, classic movies made clear — the country needed outsiders to study and dramatize its new anxieties. Both an outsider and, gradually, an insider, Walker finds work as a journalist, and tries to piece his life together as America is beginning to come apart: riven by social and racial divisions, spiraling corruption, and the collapse of the inner cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn epic for the modern world, it is a tale of damaged people trying to find kindness in the world, of cynicism and paranoia, and of redemption. Robin Robertson's fluid verse pans with filmic immediacy across the postwar urban scene — and into the heart of an unforgettable character. \u003ci\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/i\u003e is a genre-crossing work of stunning originality, beauty, and immediacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487006242","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487006242\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"crossover fiction; world war ii; death of the american dream; haunting; atmospheric; flashbacks; disillusionment; gentrification; vietnam; mccarthyism; jazz; cold war; korean war; man booker prize; days without end sebastian barry; this accident of being lost leanne betasomasake simpson; wheras; poems; notebooks of malte laurids brigge; perry mason; poetry lovers","NumberOfPages":"240","OtherText_Accolades_0":"Robin Robertson is instantly recognizable as a poet of vivid authority, commanding a surprised, accurate language of his own. The evocative truth and the crystalline ring of his words, line by line, make a kind of hope in themselves.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"W.S. Merwin, author of the Pulitzer Prize winner The Shadow of Sirius","OtherText_Accolades_1":"An inter-genre tour de force, The Long Take is a restless reimagining of conventional poetics. Through the poem’s protagonist, Robertson has cast a national, cultural, psychological, and class outsider of vibrant and seedy post-war America into a palpable anti-hero eerily resonant with our contemporary world. With syncopated rhythms, staccato dialogue, and jump-scenes, the book weaves dizzying, jazz-like meditations on PTSD, masculinity, betrayal, and salvation by embodying, in sound, scent, and sixth-sense, one of America’s most hopeful and devastating decades. The result is a ravishing achievement.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Ocean Vuong, author of the T.S. Eliot Prize winner Night Sky with Exit Wounds","OtherText_Review_0":"A propulsive verbal tour de force . . . The Long Take is an audacious and often brilliant book. Poetry needn’t be a call to action but this one raises many questions, not the least of which is: What and whom should we root for in today’s world of diminished dreams?","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_1":"Robin Robertson, one of the finest lyric poets of the age, flexes his artistic reach in a continuous narrative of more than two hundred pages, a beautiful, vigorous, and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring. Here we have a poet, at the peak of his symphonic powers, taking a great risk, and succeeding gloriously . . . The Long Take is a masterly work of art, exciting, colourful, fast-paced — the old-time movie reviewer’s vocabulary is apt to the case — and almost unbearably moving.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_2":"As a work of art, this dreamlike exploration is a triumph; as a timely allegory, it is disturbingly profound . . . Robertson’s The Long Take is one of the first major achievements of twenty-first-century English-language literature.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Financial Times","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e offers a wholly unique literary voice and form. A verse novel with photographs, it manages to evoke with exceptional vividness aspects of post-World War Two history that are rarely parsed together. Swinging effortlessly between combat with its traumatic aftermath, and the brute redevelopment of American cities, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e shows us the ravages of capitalism as a continuation of war-time violence by other means. It is also a bold, eloquent homage to cinema as perhaps the only medium in which the true history of America has been preserved. This is a genre-defying novel. Cutting from battlefield to building demolitions in San Francisco and LA, to the killing of black men on the streets of America today, it imports into the very form of the writing one of the most famous film techniques: cross-cutting. You could be in the cinema, or listening to an elegy, or reading the story of one man’s devastating experience as he tries to rebuild the shards of his life after the war. A pageant of loss, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e is also a lyrical tribute to the power of writing and image to convey, and somehow survive, historic and ongoing suffering and injustice.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Man Booker Prize Judges’ Citation","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the inner journey of Canadian veteran Walker as he travels from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco attempting to rebuild his life after living through the horrors of war in Europe. In poetry of the utmost beauty, Robin Robertson interweaves themes from the great age of black and white films, the destruction of communities as cities destroy the old to build the new, the horrors of McCarthyism and the terrible psychological wounds left by war. Robertson shows us things we’d rather not see and asks us to face things we’d rather not face. But with the pulsing narrative drive of classic film noir, the vision of a poet, and the craft of a novelist, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e courageously and magnificently boosts the Walter Scott Prize into its next decade.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Judges’ Citation","OtherText_Review_5":"Composed in a mixture of verse and prose, The Long Take is a book with a big heart. The beauty of the language will seduce the reader from the very start. How do we put ourselves back together in a damaged world? How do we keep our conscience alive and ourselves well-balanced when everything else is slipping away, changing too fast? How much of the past should we allow ourselves to even remember when all that matters is to stay in the present moment, to stay afloat? By taking this long journey west — across New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles — Robin Robertson tells a universal story. With its undeniable beauty; quiet, modest but strong pull, this book will shift something in your soul. By the time you have finished reading it, you won't quite be the same.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Goldsmiths Prize Judges’ Citation","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e remarkably captures linguistic styles of 1940s American writing — Saroyan and Steinbeck. As it progresses into the mid-50s we’re hearing Ginsberg and Baldwin … you will be washed in all these when you read this poem … Robertson has chosen a supremely uncomfortable, recognizable flashpoint in U.S. history, an almost perfect mirror image of the nation today: crude, newly unleashed material ambitions mix with off-the-chart levels of fear and paranoia. The only difference is that then it was Russkies and immigrants, and now, uh …\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Sunday Herald","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The Long Take is a noir tale that follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_3":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_4":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_5":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeCode_3":"04","PrizeCode_4":"03","PrizeCode_5":"04","PrizeName_0":"Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction","PrizeName_1":"Roehampton Poetry Prize","PrizeName_2":"Goldsmiths Prize","PrizeName_3":"Man Booker Prize","PrizeName_4":"An Economist Book of the Year","PrizeName_5":"Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award","PrizeYear_0":"2018","PrizeYear_1":"2018","PrizeYear_2":"2018","PrizeYear_3":"2018","PrizeYear_4":"2018","PrizeYear_5":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-10-30","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The Long Take is a noir tale that follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
The Long Take
The Long Take is a noir tale that follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.
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{"id":6812120711227,"title":"Twitch Force","handle":"twitch-force","description":"\u003cp\u003eA muscle’s “twitch force” is a measurement of its energy potential. It’s history dependent: you can forget it, but it’s engraved on you where you can’t see it, and all it wants to do is repeat. Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Michael Redhill’s first collection of poetry in eighteen years, \u003ci\u003eTwitch Force\u003c\/i\u003e has a gnomic, satirical, and lucid intelligence. In “Ingredients,” heredity’s recipe is told via short-form family narrative; in “My Arrangements,” a stolen laptop battery leads to an encounter with the Israeli Olympic women’s beach volleyball team; while in “The Women,” human beauty is parsed down to the level of chromosomes: “I’m beautiful; I have my mother’s feet. The women who change into men are beautiful men who were once beautiful women.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is poetry concerned with love and its loss, despair and hard-won hope, knowledge and essential mystery, aging and timelessness. Readers are cautioned: ideas that present as self-explanatory may be closer than they appear. \u003ci\u003eTwitch Force\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunningly realized return to the form from one of Canada’s bravest and most original poets.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-22T16:47:14-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-22T11:25:08-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Redhill Michael","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2019-04-09"],"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":40195639246907,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006181","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Twitch Force - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":180,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487006181","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_af60f8fe-cd46-4f77-aeb2-2d7381436a9b.jpg?v=1678599846"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_af60f8fe-cd46-4f77-aeb2-2d7381436a9b.jpg?v=1678599846","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"This image is in shades of black and white. An x-ray of a stretched-out frog is against a black background. All of the frogÕs bones and joints are visible along with the hazy outline of its body and skin. An extra leg comes out from the frogÕs hip. It is shorter than the two main legs and longer than the two main arms. Text: Twitch Force. Michael Redhill. Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize.","id":23324548104251,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_af60f8fe-cd46-4f77-aeb2-2d7381436a9b.jpg?v=1678599846"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_af60f8fe-cd46-4f77-aeb2-2d7381436a9b.jpg?v=1678599846","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eA muscle’s “twitch force” is a measurement of its energy potential. It’s history dependent: you can forget it, but it’s engraved on you where you can’t see it, and all it wants to do is repeat. Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Michael Redhill’s first collection of poetry in eighteen years, \u003ci\u003eTwitch Force\u003c\/i\u003e has a gnomic, satirical, and lucid intelligence. In “Ingredients,” heredity’s recipe is told via short-form family narrative; in “My Arrangements,” a stolen laptop battery leads to an encounter with the Israeli Olympic women’s beach volleyball team; while in “The Women,” human beauty is parsed down to the level of chromosomes: “I’m beautiful; I have my mother’s feet. The women who change into men are beautiful men who were once beautiful women.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is poetry concerned with love and its loss, despair and hard-won hope, knowledge and essential mystery, aging and timelessness. Readers are cautioned: ideas that present as self-explanatory may be closer than they appear. \u003ci\u003eTwitch Force\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunningly realized return to the form from one of Canada’s bravest and most original poets.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Twitch Force
A stunning volume of brave and original lyric poetry concerned with love and loss, despair and hope, aging and timelessness.
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{"id":6812120514619,"title":"Dunk Tank","handle":"dunk-tank","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe much-anticipated second collection from Gerald Lampert Memorial Award–winning poet Kayla Czaga, \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank \u003c\/i\u003eis a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the title poem of Kayla Czaga’s sophomore collection, a teenage speaker is suspended between knowledge and experience, confidently hovering before the world plunges her into adult life. \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines the body as a strange and unknowable landscape: full of cancers that “burst like blackberries,” a butt that could run for prime minister of Canada, and the underworld lurking in Winona Ryder’s pores. Clouds become testicles and uteri turn into goldfish, flickering and fragile, but still ultimately glowing. These poems explore the varied and strange relationships that underpin a young woman’s coming of age, from inconsequential boyfriends to the friendships that rescue us from “grey daily moments.” Unsure of how the world works and her part in it, Czaga forges a landscape of metaphor and gleaming, dense imagery. \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/i\u003e is playful and dark, comic and disturbing.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:52-05:00","created_at":"2022-03-22T11:24:50-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult LGBTQ+","Adult Poetry","By (author) Czaga Kayla","Feminist Reads","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2019-04-09"],"price":1999,"price_min":1999,"price_max":1999,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40195635642427,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487005962","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Dunk Tank - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1999,"weight":180,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487005962","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fa3ded24-ce82-4380-8314-10ba04954be9.jpg?v=1698560413"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fa3ded24-ce82-4380-8314-10ba04954be9.jpg?v=1698560413","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23914164650043,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fa3ded24-ce82-4380-8314-10ba04954be9.jpg?v=1698560413"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fa3ded24-ce82-4380-8314-10ba04954be9.jpg?v=1698560413","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe much-anticipated second collection from Gerald Lampert Memorial Award–winning poet Kayla Czaga, \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank \u003c\/i\u003eis a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the title poem of Kayla Czaga’s sophomore collection, a teenage speaker is suspended between knowledge and experience, confidently hovering before the world plunges her into adult life. \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines the body as a strange and unknowable landscape: full of cancers that “burst like blackberries,” a butt that could run for prime minister of Canada, and the underworld lurking in Winona Ryder’s pores. Clouds become testicles and uteri turn into goldfish, flickering and fragile, but still ultimately glowing. These poems explore the varied and strange relationships that underpin a young woman’s coming of age, from inconsequential boyfriends to the friendships that rescue us from “grey daily moments.” Unsure of how the world works and her part in it, Czaga forges a landscape of metaphor and gleaming, dense imagery. \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/i\u003e is playful and dark, comic and disturbing.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Clouds become testicles and uteri turn into goldfish, flickering and fragile, but still ultimately glowing. 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When she confesses ‘it felt \/ like we could say and finally mean \/ something,’ I’m enlivened, senses heightened, as if my name is being called by someone who never calls me by my name.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Sheryda Warrener, author of Floating Is Everything","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCITING EMERGING POET:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eKayla Czaga’s first collection, \u003cem\u003eFor Your Safety Please Hold On\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her poems have since received major acclaim. 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Poems from \u003cem\u003eFor Your Safety Please Hold On\u003c\/em\u003e have also been shortlisted for the New Quarterly’s Occasional Verse Contest; longlisted for CBC’s Canada Writes Poetry Contest; and appeared in literary publications across North America.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLGBTQ+ THEMES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eKayla’s poetry speaks to both LGBTQ+ and cis-hetero audiences through its themes of sexual coming of age.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"These poems of love, service-industry jobs, and small-town boredom . . . buzz with fierce restlessness and longing.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"Dunk Tank trades in specificity, intimacy, weirdness, colloquialism, and dark humour.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"Czaga manages to capture moments of maturation with the wisdom of a backward glance . . . Approachable and skillful in its poetics and narrative detail.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"The author is always inventive in her metaphors and images … All in all Dunk Tank is smart and heartfelt.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Walleye","OtherText_Review_4":"Reading Kayla Czaga’s Dunk Tank is like taking a ride in a hot-wired car from Kitimat, seeing how far it will take you … Czaga creates order from disparate-seeming imagery with an intuitive knack for repetition … Good poetry resonates on different levels, leaves you thinking about your own life for some time beyond. And in this regard Czaga’s poems leave you laugh-crying and changed.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Ormsby Review","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Dunk Tank is a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"02","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize","PrizeName_1":"A CBC Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-04-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Dunk Tank is a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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Dunk Tank is a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life.
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{"id":6812120318011,"title":"The Caiplie Caves","handle":"the-caiplie-caves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGriffin Poetry Prize winner Karen Solie’s new collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/i\u003e, interrogates violence, power, economies, self-delusion, and belief in poems that orbit the Caves of Caiplie on the coast of Scotland.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the seventh century, on the coast of Fife, Scotland, an Irish missionary named Ethernan withdrew to a cave in order to decide whether to establish a priory on May Island, directly opposite, in the Firth of Forth, or pursue a hermit’s solitude. His decision would have been informed by the realities of war, religious colonization, and ideas of progress, power, and corruption, and complicated by personal interest, grief, confusion, and a faith (religious and secular) under extreme duress. His choice between life as an “active” or a “contemplative” was one between public and private action. Along with the question of what constitutes action, it remains a choice central to political and private life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaren Solie’s fifth book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/i\u003e, attends to transition in times of crisis. Around passages informed by Ethernan’s story are poems that orbit the geographical location of the caves but that range through the ages, addressing violence, power, work, economies, self-delusion, and belief. Indecision and necessity are inseparable companions. As are the prospect of error and regret.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-22T16:39:41-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-22T11:24:41-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Solie Karen","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2019-04-09"],"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":40195635019835,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487005924","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Caiplie Caves - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":240,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487005924","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_62670413-1352-4e3e-b599-1e13851e5976.jpg?v=1713410954"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_62670413-1352-4e3e-b599-1e13851e5976.jpg?v=1713410954","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24440980734011,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_62670413-1352-4e3e-b599-1e13851e5976.jpg?v=1713410954"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_62670413-1352-4e3e-b599-1e13851e5976.jpg?v=1713410954","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGriffin Poetry Prize winner Karen Solie’s new collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/i\u003e, interrogates violence, power, economies, self-delusion, and belief in poems that orbit the Caves of Caiplie on the coast of Scotland.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the seventh century, on the coast of Fife, Scotland, an Irish missionary named Ethernan withdrew to a cave in order to decide whether to establish a priory on May Island, directly opposite, in the Firth of Forth, or pursue a hermit’s solitude. His decision would have been informed by the realities of war, religious colonization, and ideas of progress, power, and corruption, and complicated by personal interest, grief, confusion, and a faith (religious and secular) under extreme duress. His choice between life as an “active” or a “contemplative” was one between public and private action. Along with the question of what constitutes action, it remains a choice central to political and private life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaren Solie’s fifth book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/i\u003e, attends to transition in times of crisis. Around passages informed by Ethernan’s story are poems that orbit the geographical location of the caves but that range through the ages, addressing violence, power, work, economies, self-delusion, and belief. Indecision and necessity are inseparable companions. As are the prospect of error and regret.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Like Ethernan, Solie would deny that she works miracles. I beg to differ.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Ange Mlinko","OtherText_Accolades_0_Src":"New York Review of Books","OtherText_Review_0":"A significant achievement . . . The Caiplie Caves is a work of impressive layering and depth, full of call-backs, interweaving, careful research, and textual references.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"Wry, sharp-eyed, and uncompromising, The Caiplie Caves is the most ambitious collection yet from an essential poet.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Telegraph","OtherText_Review_2":"Solie takes her place among our best contemporary poets . . . The Caiplie Caves is Solie’s best work yet, full of true, beautiful, menacing things.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Harvard Review","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The Caiplie Caves interrogates violence, economies, self-delusion, and belief in poems that orbit the Caves of Caiplie on the coast of Scotland.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_1":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_2":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"02","PrizeCode_1":"02","PrizeCode_2":"03","PrizeName_0":"T. S. Eliot Prize","PrizeName_1":"Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry","PrizeName_2":"A CBC Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2019","PrizeYear_2":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-04-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The Caiplie Caves interrogates violence, economies, self-delusion, and belief in poems that orbit the Caves of Caiplie on the coast of Scotland.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
The Caiplie Caves
The Caiplie Caves interrogates violence, economies, self-delusion, and belief in poems that orbit the Caves of Caiplie on the coast of Scotland.
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{"id":6812119990331,"title":"Stilt Jack","handle":"stilt-jack","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe much-loved, yet undervalued, final book of poems by British-Canadian poet John Thompson, is reissued in a handsome edition, featuring a new introduction by Rob Winger.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1978, \u003ci\u003eStilt Jack \u003c\/i\u003eis a series of powerful soliloquies on the complexity of love and the process of living. These are made immediate through Thompson’s command of metaphor, his eye for the New Brunswick landscape, his intense, often elliptical way of transfiguring everyday things into shorthand symbols of reality. This remarkable sequence of poems is based on the \u003ci\u003eghazal\u003c\/i\u003e, an ancient Persian poetic form which is discussed in Thompson’s introduction to the original edition of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems more than fulfill the promise of Thompson’s first collection, \u003ci\u003eAt the Edge of the Chopping There Are No Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eStilt Jack \u003c\/i\u003eis the last testament of a major poet at the pinnacle of his craft.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-22T16:27:43-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-22T11:24:33-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","Adult Poetry","By (author) Thompson John","Introduction by Winger Rob","pub date: 2019-04-16"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1695,"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":40195633905723,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006662","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Stilt Jack - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1695,"weight":100,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487006662","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40196002381883,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006716","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Stilt Jack - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487006716","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40196004249659,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006723","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Stilt Jack - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487006723","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_134e0fa6-aff6-4e6f-aeb7-14e782da05d9.jpg?v=1727574207"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_134e0fa6-aff6-4e6f-aeb7-14e782da05d9.jpg?v=1727574207","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24827555741755,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_134e0fa6-aff6-4e6f-aeb7-14e782da05d9.jpg?v=1727574207"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_134e0fa6-aff6-4e6f-aeb7-14e782da05d9.jpg?v=1727574207","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe much-loved, yet undervalued, final book of poems by British-Canadian poet John Thompson, is reissued in a handsome edition, featuring a new introduction by Rob Winger.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1978, \u003ci\u003eStilt Jack \u003c\/i\u003eis a series of powerful soliloquies on the complexity of love and the process of living. These are made immediate through Thompson’s command of metaphor, his eye for the New Brunswick landscape, his intense, often elliptical way of transfiguring everyday things into shorthand symbols of reality. This remarkable sequence of poems is based on the \u003ci\u003eghazal\u003c\/i\u003e, an ancient Persian poetic form which is discussed in Thompson’s introduction to the original edition of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems more than fulfill the promise of Thompson’s first collection, \u003ci\u003eAt the Edge of the Chopping There Are No Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eStilt Jack \u003c\/i\u003eis the last testament of a major poet at the pinnacle of his craft.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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His first collection, \u003cem\u003eAt the Edge of the Chopping There Are No Secrets\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 1973, and his second, \u003cem\u003eStilt Jack\u003c\/em\u003e, appeared posthumously in 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"POETRY \/ Middle Eastern","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","BISACSubject_1":"POE013000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJOHN THOMPSON\u003c\/strong\u003e (1938–76) was one of the most acclaimed Canadian poets of the twentieth century. Born and raised in England, he received a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Michigan State University before moving to Canada to teach at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. 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That implacable mystique has taken hold of poets from Baudelaire to John Berryman; Thompson’s surrender to it, in Stilt Jack, is an arresting performance of the part. And a deeply troubling one.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Dennis Lee","OtherText_Accolades_1":"A world of essence, primitive and chaotic, made of earth, air, fire, and waters . . . spilt blood, split woods; cries, horses, fish; Anabasis half begun, half finished in the New Brunswick woods . . . Poetry so unique as to be beyond ‘originality.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"A.J.M. 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But this book truly deserves to be presented in its own volume.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA TRUE CLASSIC OF CANADIAN POETRY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis collection continues to be circulated privately amongst poets and influences new writers, and introduced a free-verse version of an ancient form into the mainstream. 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The much-loved and critically undervalued second (and final) book of poems by British-Canadian Maritimes poet John Thompson.
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The remarkable debut poetry collection from renowned bestselling novelist and Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet Paulette Jiles.
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NDN Coping Mechanisms
The follow-up collection from Griffin Poetry Prize–winning poet Billy-Ray Belcourt is a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work.
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The Lost Spells
The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world.
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From intimate moments shared with a lover, to the fear and isolation of illness, these poems are Teva’s candid and generous invitation to join her on her journey from life into death. Not One of These Poems Is About You is one of the few books I can think of that makes me a little less afraid of dying, and a little less afraid of losing those I love.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Tannahill Jordan","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCRITICALLY ACCLAIMED PREVIOUS WORK:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn-Between Days\u003c\/em\u003e, Teva’s graphic memoir, received starred reviews from \u003cem\u003ePublisher’s Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e. 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From Teva Harrison, the award-winning author and illustrator of In-Between Days, comes a powerful work of poetry and art.
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There is a fierce independence to the poems, yet they warp-tunnel towards an achingly beautiful bedrock of existence.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Jeff Latosik, award-winning author of Dreampad","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eACCLAIMED UP-AND-COMING POET:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMathew Henderson’s 2012 debut collection, The Lease, received strong reviews from both the New York Times and the Millions. It was a finalist for two of the most prestigious Canadian poetry awards — the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. His follow-up collection is sure to receive even more great attention!\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCROSSOVER SUBJECT MATTER:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoguelike\u003c\/em\u003e examines video games from all angles: the culture, the mythology, the language. Fans of video games who might not otherwise read poetry can be drawn in by this subject matter.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Striking and evocative . . . At the heart of this powerful book is a longing to gain perspective and move on from a difficult past.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"The best poetry combines robust language use and meaning, not one at the expense of the other. Roguelike, the sophomore collection from Toronto poet Mathew Henderson, delivers both . . . Henderson is a master craftsman who loads his poems with elegant turns of phrase and meaning . . . Impossible to internalize at one sitting, Roguelike is worthy of multiple readings not just for the story, but for the skill with which the author manipulates energy and storytelling. Roguelike is a hand grenade that never stops exploding.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"Henderson has a talent for the strong image, a sharp setup … Throughout the work, games provide a way to cope, a way to center shifting narratives of shelter and escape … This is a collection about loss and mourning, storytelling and mythmaking; about how we cope and how the externalities we use to do so bleed together to form accepted but ultimately shaky notions of the truth.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Temz Review","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Mathew Henderson explores with remarkable insight the unique logics of video games and addiction in his much-anticipated sophomore poetry collection.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeName_0":"ReLit Award for Poetry","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-04-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Mathew Henderson explores with remarkable insight the unique logics of video games and addiction in his much-anticipated sophomore poetry collection.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Roguelike
Mathew Henderson explores with remarkable insight the unique logics of video games and addiction in his much-anticipated sophomore poetry collection.
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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.
