Search results for: "griffin poetry prize"
Quick View
{"id":6812109504571,"title":"NDN Coping Mechanisms","handle":"ndn-coping-mechanisms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn his follow-up to \u003ci\u003eThis Wound is a World\u003c\/i\u003e, Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection, \u003ci\u003eNDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field \u003c\/i\u003eis a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work that uses\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ethe modes of accusation and interrogation. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe aims an anthropological eye at the realities of everyday life to show how they house the violence that continues to reverberate from the long twentieth century. In a genre-bending constellation of poetry, photography, redaction, and poetics, Belcourt ultimately argues that if signifiers of Indigenous suffering are everywhere, so too is evidence of Indigenous peoples’ rogue possibility, their utopian drive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field\u003c\/i\u003e, the poet takes on the political demands of queerness, mainstream portrayals of Indigenous life, love and its discontents, and the limits and uses of poetry as a vehicle for Indigenous liberation. In the process, Belcourt once again demonstrates his extraordinary craft, guile, and audacity, and the sheer dexterity of his imagination. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-22T16:15:39-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-22T11:02:21-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Course Adoption","Adult LGBTQ+","Adult Poetry","Adult Starred Reviews","By (author) Belcourt Billy-Ray","House of Anansi Press","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2019-09-03"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1999,"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":40195473637435,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487005771","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"NDN Coping Mechanisms - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1999,"weight":180,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487005771","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40195478159419,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487005788","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"NDN Coping Mechanisms - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487005788","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40195503521851,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007164","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"NDN Coping Mechanisms - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487007164","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4982c8fa-6c19-4601-8c91-a2f3e3dcdf1c.jpg?v=1665978480"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4982c8fa-6c19-4601-8c91-a2f3e3dcdf1c.jpg?v=1665978480","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"A woman with light skin tone stands in a field of tall, dry grass. The sky is blue behind her. Her hands are bound in front of her with white fabric. She holds a piece of driftwood to cover her face. One eye is visible through a circular hole in the wood. Feathers stick out of a cracked section toward the top of the driftwood. Text: NDN Coping Mechanisms. Notes from the Field. Billy-Ray Belcourt. Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize.","id":22808187240507,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4982c8fa-6c19-4601-8c91-a2f3e3dcdf1c.jpg?v=1665978480"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4982c8fa-6c19-4601-8c91-a2f3e3dcdf1c.jpg?v=1665978480","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn his follow-up to \u003ci\u003eThis Wound is a World\u003c\/i\u003e, Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection, \u003ci\u003eNDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field \u003c\/i\u003eis a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work that uses\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ethe modes of accusation and interrogation. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe aims an anthropological eye at the realities of everyday life to show how they house the violence that continues to reverberate from the long twentieth century. In a genre-bending constellation of poetry, photography, redaction, and poetics, Belcourt ultimately argues that if signifiers of Indigenous suffering are everywhere, so too is evidence of Indigenous peoples’ rogue possibility, their utopian drive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field\u003c\/i\u003e, the poet takes on the political demands of queerness, mainstream portrayals of Indigenous life, love and its discontents, and the limits and uses of poetry as a vehicle for Indigenous liberation. In the process, Belcourt once again demonstrates his extraordinary craft, guile, and audacity, and the sheer dexterity of his imagination. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487003463","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487001278","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487002268","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781487001278","BASICMainSubject":"POE015000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY\/Native American","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBILLY-RAY BELCOURT\u003c\/strong\u003e (he\/him) is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. His debut book of poems, \u003cem\u003eThis Wound is a World\u003c\/em\u003e, won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2018 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, and was named the Most Significant Book of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer at the 2018 Indigenous Voices Award. It was also a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. It was named by CBC Books as one of the best Canadian poetry collections of the year. Billy-Ray is a Ph.D. student and a 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. He is also a 2016 Rhodes Scholar and holds a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies from Wadham College at the University of Oxford.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Native American","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"POETRY \/ LGBT","BISACSubject_0":"POE015000","BISACSubject_1":"POE011000","BISACSubject_2":"POE021000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBILLY-RAY BELCOURT\u003c\/strong\u003e (he\/him) is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. His debut book of poems, \u003cem\u003eThis Wound is a World\u003c\/em\u003e, won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2018 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, and was named the Most Significant Book of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer at the 2018 Indigenous Voices Award. It was also a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. It was named by CBC Books as one of the best Canadian poetry collections of the year. Billy-Ray is a Ph.D. student and a 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. He is also a 2016 Rhodes Scholar and holds a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies from Wadham College at the University of Oxford.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Belcourt, Billy-Ray (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn his follow-up to \u003ci\u003eThis Wound is a World\u003c\/i\u003e, Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection, \u003ci\u003eNDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field \u003c\/i\u003eis a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work that uses\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ethe modes of accusation and interrogation. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe aims an anthropological eye at the realities of everyday life to show how they house the violence that continues to reverberate from the long twentieth century. In a genre-bending constellation of poetry, photography, redaction, and poetics, Belcourt ultimately argues that if signifiers of Indigenous suffering are everywhere, so too is evidence of Indigenous peoples’ rogue possibility, their utopian drive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field\u003c\/i\u003e, the poet takes on the political demands of queerness, mainstream portrayals of Indigenous life, love and its discontents, and the limits and uses of poetry as a vehicle for Indigenous liberation. In the process, Belcourt once again demonstrates his extraordinary craft, guile, and audacity, and the sheer dexterity of his imagination. \u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487007164","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487007164\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"ethnopoetics; not dead native; visceral; campy; ferocious; LGBTQ+; accessible poetry; sucker punch; decolonial; grief and desire; genre-bending; poetics; prose; uncompromising; Tina Fontaine; experimental verse; canlit; indigenous literature; critical theory; Finalist; Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry; Longlist; CBC Canada Reads; Library Journal Best Book; CBC Book of the Year; Library Journal; starred review; Griffin Poetry Prize","NumberOfPages":"112","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e“This brilliant book is endlessly giving, lingering in tight spaces within the forms of loneliness, showing us their contours. These poems do the necessary work of negotiating with the heart-killing present from which we imagine and make Indigenous futures. Every line feels like a possible way out of despair.” — \u003cstrong\u003eElissa Washuta, author of My Body Is a Book of Rules\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Elissa Washuta, author of My Body Is a Book of Rules","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e“I believe I exist. \/ To live, one can be neither \/ more nor less hungry than that.’ How grateful I am that Billy-Ray Belcourt and these poems believe in themselves enough to exist. With prodigious clarity, this work moves swiftly amongst theory and prose, longing and lyric, questioning and coping, ‘not dying’ and ‘obsessively apologizing to the moon for all that she has to witness.’ It is not hyperbole to say these poems are brilliant. And so brilliantly, searingly, they live.” — \u003cstrong\u003eTC Tolbert, author of Gephyromania\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"TC Tolbert, author of Gephyromania","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e“NDN Coping Mechanisms is a haunting book that dreams a new world — a ‘holy place filled with NDN girls, hair wet with utopia’ — as it simultaneously excoriates the world that ‘is a wound’ and the historic and present modalities of violence against Indigenous peoples under Canadian settler colonialism. Belcourt considers the genocidal nation-state, queerness, and the limits and potential of representation, often through a poetic\/scholarly lineage that includes Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Saidiya Hartman, Anne Boyer, José Esteban Muñoz, Christina Sharpe, and Gwen Benaway, among others. This is the beautiful achievement of NDN Coping Mechanisms: Belcourt conjures a sovereign literary space that refuses white sovereignty and is always already in relation to the ideas of the foremost decolonial poets and thinkers of Turtle Island.” — \u003cstrong\u003eMercedes Eng, author of Prison Industrial Complex Explodes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Mercedes Eng, author of Prison Industrial Complex Explodes","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBilly-Ray Belcourt made history as the youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize for his previous collection, \u003cem\u003eThis Wound is a World.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAWARD WINNING DEBUT COLLECTION:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBelcourt’s debut collection \u003cem\u003eThis Wound is a World\u003c\/em\u003e was named the Most Significant Book of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer at the 2018 Indigenous Voices Award. It also won the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLGBTQ POETRY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAs with his first book, \u003cem\u003eNDN Coping Mechanisms\u003c\/em\u003e will appeal not only to fans of raw, emotionally direct lyric and confessional poetry, but also to readers of contemporary ethnopoetics and queer literary theory.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE NEW WAVE OF INDIGENOUS POETS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBelcourt is among the leaders of a new wave of young and extremely talented and provocative group of Indigenous writers, a list that includes Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Katherena Vermette, Jason Stefanik, and Jordan Abel in Canada and Layli Long Soldier, Natalie Diaz, and Craig Santos Perez in the U.S.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBilly-Ray Belcourt made history as the youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize for his previous collection, \u003cem\u003eThis Wound is a World.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAWARD WINNING DEBUT COLLECTION:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBelcourt’s debut collection \u003cem\u003eThis Wound is a World\u003c\/em\u003e was named the Most Significant Book of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer at the 2018 Indigenous Voices Award. It also won the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLGBTQ POETRY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAs with his first book, \u003cem\u003eNDN Coping Mechanisms\u003c\/em\u003e will appeal not only to fans of raw, emotionally direct lyric and confessional poetry, but also to readers of contemporary ethnopoetics and queer literary theory.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE NEW WAVE OF INDIGENOUS POETS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBelcourt is among the leaders of a new wave of young and extremely talented and provocative group of Indigenous writers, a list that includes Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Katherena Vermette, Jason Stefanik, and Jordan Abel in Canada and Layli Long Soldier, Natalie Diaz, and Craig Santos Perez in the U.S.\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":"\u003cp\u003e“For all the ferocious energy and one-two punch of language here, this is also a concentrated, beautifully managed work.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Library Journal","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Both intellectual and visceral, these poems dazzle with metaphoric richness and striking lyricism.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“A masterful blend of the personal and the political, the ephemeral and the corporeal, the theoretical and the emotional.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill and Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“An impressive follow-up to his first book.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Playful, candid, and campy.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrairie Books NOW\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Prairie Books NOW","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The follow-up collection from Griffin Poetry Prize–winning poet Billy-Ray Belcourt is a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_4":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_5":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeCode_3":"04","PrizeCode_4":"03","PrizeCode_5":"03","PrizeName_0":"Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry","PrizeName_1":"Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize","PrizeName_2":"Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry","PrizeName_3":"Raymond Souster Award","PrizeName_4":"A Library Journal Best Book","PrizeName_5":"A CBC Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2019","PrizeYear_2":"2019","PrizeYear_3":"2019","PrizeYear_4":"2019","PrizeYear_5":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2019-09-03","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The follow-up collection from Griffin Poetry Prize–winning poet Billy-Ray Belcourt is a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work.","Subtitle":"Notes from the Field","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
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.
Quick View
{"id":7325044834363,"title":"My Heart Is Africa","handle":"my-heart-is-africa","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1996, Scott Griffin left the comfortable routine of his life as a successful businessman to fly solo to Africa in his single-engine Cessna 180 to work for the Flying Doctors Service, an African organization that flies doctors and nurses to remote areas to administer medical assistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Heart is Africa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an engaging personal story of his two-year adventure but it is also the story of Africa -- its problems and people, its landscape and limitations, its culture and courage. Griffin's intrepid flying odyssey takes the reader on a journey across Africa and into the lives of the doctors, nurses, aid workers and eccentric characters that crossed his path along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to the AMREF Flying Doctors Service.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T14:25:11-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T14:25:11-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":2021,"price_min":2021,"price_max":2021,"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":43244528828475,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770893122","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"My Heart Is Africa - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2021,"weight":363,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781770893122","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893122.jpg?v=1736364213"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893122.jpg?v=1736364213","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979658342459,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893122.jpg?v=1736364213"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893122.jpg?v=1736364213","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1996, Scott Griffin left the comfortable routine of his life as a successful businessman to fly solo to Africa in his single-engine Cessna 180 to work for the Flying Doctors Service, an African organization that flies doctors and nurses to remote areas to administer medical assistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Heart is Africa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an engaging personal story of his two-year adventure but it is also the story of Africa -- its problems and people, its landscape and limitations, its culture and courage. Griffin's intrepid flying odyssey takes the reader on a journey across Africa and into the lives of the doctors, nurses, aid workers and eccentric characters that crossed his path along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to the AMREF Flying Doctors Service.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\"\u003eScott Griffin, OC, is Chairman, Director and controlling shareholder of House of Anansi Press Inc. He is the founder, Chairman, and Trustee of The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry; the founder, Chairman, and Director of The Scott Griffin Foundation, founder of Poetry In Voice\/Les voix de la poésie; and Chairman and Director of Steam Whistle Brewing. He is married to Krystyne Griffin and has four children and eight grandchildren. All royalties from the sale of\u0026nbsp;\u003ci\u003eMy Heart is Africa\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026nbsp;will be donated to the AMREF Flying Doctors Service.\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Griffin, Scott","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"288","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
Quick View
{"id":6582759653435,"title":"Sequence special hardcover edition","handle":"sequence-special-hardcover-edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of A.F. Moritz's poetry collection Sequence is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe latest collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet A. F. Moritz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e, the reader accompanies the poet step after step and breath after breath through a haunting and mercurial world that shimmers like sun on sand. Alternating moments of spare clarity with deep narrative flashes, the poem wanders the borders of the self, pursuing the eternal moment through imagined landscapes and the lush world waiting outside the writer's window. This is poetry of intense observation, finely tuned to a pattern that is sustained with breaks and returns, alive with eros and a hunger for Breton's \"convulsive beauty.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e dazzles as it seeks the great mystery, while remaining fully invested in our life of contingency and time.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:14:41-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:14:41-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","By (author) Moritz A.F.","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2015-04-09"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"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":39403468226619,"title":"hardcover special edition","option1":"hardcover special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899827","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Sequence special hardcover edition - hardcover special edition","public_title":"hardcover special edition","options":["hardcover special edition"],"price":1995,"weight":231,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770899827","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_78cd8add-72a3-4c2f-bb40-686cfab0e64a.jpg?v=1709286842"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_78cd8add-72a3-4c2f-bb40-686cfab0e64a.jpg?v=1709286842","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24253405397051,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":3189,"width":2551,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_78cd8add-72a3-4c2f-bb40-686cfab0e64a.jpg?v=1709286842"},"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":3189,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_78cd8add-72a3-4c2f-bb40-686cfab0e64a.jpg?v=1709286842","width":2551}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of A.F. Moritz's poetry collection Sequence is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe latest collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet A. F. Moritz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e, the reader accompanies the poet step after step and breath after breath through a haunting and mercurial world that shimmers like sun on sand. Alternating moments of spare clarity with deep narrative flashes, the poem wanders the borders of the self, pursuing the eternal moment through imagined landscapes and the lush world waiting outside the writer's window. This is poetry of intense observation, finely tuned to a pattern that is sustained with breaks and returns, alive with eros and a hunger for Breton's \"convulsive beauty.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e dazzles as it seeks the great mystery, while remaining fully invested in our life of contingency and time.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781770892491","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9780887846588","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487007799","BASICMainSubject":"POE005010","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY\/American","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA.F. MORITZ\u003c\/strong\u003e’s most recent books from House of Anansi Press are \u003cem\u003eGreat Silent Ballad\u003c\/em\u003e (2024), \u003cem\u003eAs Far as You Know\u003c\/em\u003e (2020) and \u003cem\u003eThe Sparrow: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2018). Three of his books have been finalists for the Governor General’s Award; \u003cem\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c\/em\u003e won the Griffin Poetry Prize. His work overall has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and other recognitions. A.F. Moritz was Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2019 to 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ American \/ General","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE005010","BISACSubject_1":"POE011000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA.F. MORITZ\u003c\/strong\u003e’s most recent books from House of Anansi Press are \u003cem\u003eGreat Silent Ballad\u003c\/em\u003e (2024), \u003cem\u003eAs Far as You Know\u003c\/em\u003e (2020) and \u003cem\u003eThe Sparrow: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2018). Three of his books have been finalists for the Governor General’s Award; \u003cem\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c\/em\u003e won the Griffin Poetry Prize. His work overall has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and other recognitions. A.F. Moritz was Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2019 to 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Moritz, A.F. (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of A.F. Moritz's poetry collection Sequence is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe latest collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet A. F. Moritz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e, the reader accompanies the poet step after step and breath after breath through a haunting and mercurial world that shimmers like sun on sand. Alternating moments of spare clarity with deep narrative flashes, the poem wanders the borders of the self, pursuing the eternal moment through imagined landscapes and the lush world waiting outside the writer's window. This is poetry of intense observation, finely tuned to a pattern that is sustained with breaks and returns, alive with eros and a hunger for Breton's \"convulsive beauty.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSequence\u003c\/em\u003e dazzles as it seeks the great mystery, while remaining fully invested in our life of contingency and time.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770899827","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770899827\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"Canadian; American","NumberOfPages":"128","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"Moritz's exquisite control of line length, among other techniques, creates unique forms, and the poems themselves move smoothly between modes.","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Moritz's exquisite control of line length, among other techniques, creates unique forms, and the poems themselves move smoothly between modes.” — \u003cstrong\u003eCandace Fertile, \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Candace Fertile","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of A.F. Moritz's poetry collection Sequence is limited to 50 copies.","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover special edition","PublicationDate":"2015-04-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of A.F. Moritz's poetry collection Sequence is limited to 50 copies.","Subtitle":"Special Edition","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Sequence special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of A.F. Moritz's poetry collection Sequence is limited to 50 copies.
Quick View
{"id":6841440239675,"title":"The Caiplie Caves special hardcover ed","handle":"the-caiplie-caves-special-hardcover-ed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGriffin Poetry Prize winner Karen Solie’s new collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/em\u003e, interrogates violence, power, economies, self-delusion, and belief in poems that orbit the Caves of Caiplie on the coast of Scotland. This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\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, \u003cem\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/em\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":"2022-04-26T16:42:30-04:00","created_at":"2022-04-26T10:21:49-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","By (author) Solie Karen","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2019-04-09"],"price":3500,"price_min":3500,"price_max":3500,"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":40320329973819,"title":"hardcover special edition","option1":"hardcover special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487005948","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The Caiplie Caves special hardcover ed - hardcover special edition","public_title":"hardcover special edition","options":["hardcover special edition"],"price":3500,"weight":240,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487005948","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/9781487005948.jpg?v=1664983787"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/9781487005948.jpg?v=1664983787","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Dark blue background. Text: The Caiplie Caves. Karen Solie.","id":22760483586107,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":600,"width":450,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/9781487005948.jpg?v=1664983787"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":600,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/9781487005948.jpg?v=1664983787","width":450}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGriffin Poetry Prize winner Karen Solie’s new collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/em\u003e, interrogates violence, power, economies, self-delusion, and belief in poems that orbit the Caves of Caiplie on the coast of Scotland. This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\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, \u003cem\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/em\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"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9780887842931","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9780887842580","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487000967","BASICMainSubject":"POE000000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY\/General","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKAREN SOLIE\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up in southwest Saskatchewan. Her five previous collections of poetry–\u003cem\u003eShort Haul Engine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eModern and Normal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePigeon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Road In Is Not the Same Road Out\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/em\u003e–have won the Dorothy Livesay Award, Pat Lowther Award, Trillium Poetry Prize, and the Griffin Prize, and been shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. A 2026 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient and 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches half-time for the University of St Andrews in Scotland and lives the rest of the year in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ General","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE000000","BISACSubject_1":"POE011000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKAREN SOLIE\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up in southwest Saskatchewan. Her five previous collections of poetry–\u003cem\u003eShort Haul Engine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eModern and Normal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePigeon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Road In Is Not the Same Road Out\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/em\u003e–have won the Dorothy Livesay Award, Pat Lowther Award, Trillium Poetry Prize, and the Griffin Prize, and been shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. A 2026 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient and 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches half-time for the University of St Andrews in Scotland and lives the rest of the year in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Solie, Karen (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGriffin Poetry Prize winner Karen Solie’s new collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/em\u003e, interrogates violence, power, economies, self-delusion, and belief in poems that orbit the Caves of Caiplie on the coast of Scotland. This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.\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, \u003cem\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/em\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","EAN":"9781487005948","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487005948\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"loneliness; anti-modernity; salve; modern anxieties; history and myth; disorder; geography; isolation; philosophy; contemplative; landscape as refuge; complexity; responsibility; empathy; geo-historical setting; metaphysical; unpretentious sobriety; anti-capitalist; textual analysis; T.S. Eliot Prize; Pat Lowther Memorial Award Longlist","NumberOfPages":"112","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's poetry collection The Caiplie Caves is limited to 50 copies.","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover special edition","PublicationDate":"2019-04-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's poetry collection The Caiplie Caves is limited to 50 copies.","Subtitle":"Special Edition","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Caiplie Caves special hardcover ed
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's poetry collection The Caiplie Caves is limited to 50 copies.
