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  • At the limit of breath

    Poems on the films of Jean-Luc Godard

    by Stephen Scobie ...
    Series series Robert Kroetsch Series
    "I wanted this to be a narrative. So finally Jean-Luc went all the way: every line in the script a quotation from somewhere else. Every blessed line. Love doesn't die. It's people who die. Love just goes away." -from "NOUVELLE VAGUE / New Wave (1990)" Stephen Scobie celebrates "the greatest film director of his age" with poetry exploring 44 of Godard's films. Subtle yet profound unities play from ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • bpNichol

    What History Teaches

    by Stephen Scobie ...
    Series series The New Canadian Criticism Series
    Scobie illuminates bpNichol’s relationship to Dadaism, contemporary French literary theory, and the writing of Gertrude Stein, and argues strongly for Nichol’s importance as a writer of fiction.Other titles in The New Canadian Criticism Series:ABC of Reading TRGTimothy Findley and the Aesthetics of FascismMichael Ondaatje: Word, Image, ImaginationMargaret Atwood: A Feminist PoeticsGeorge B... ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Measure of Paris

    by Stephen Scobie ...
    Series series Wayfarer
    Paris remains one of the most fascinating cities in the world. It provides a measure of excellence in many areas of culture, and it is itself constantly being measured, both by its lovers and by its critics. This book presents a series of studies on the images of Paris presented by writers (mostly Canadian, from John Glassco to Mavis Gallant to Lola Lemire Tostevin), but also in such other areas ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • Collected Poems

    by Isabella Valancy Crawford, Douglas Lochhead ...
    Series series Heritage
    This volume established Isabella Valancy Crawford as one of Canada's principal poets. Coupled with an introductory collage of viewpoints and reactions to her work by James Reaney its provides a vivid glimpse into the literary past of this country.Although her poetry reflects the patterns of her time, Isabella Valancy Crawford was able to accept the raw and vigorous Canadian landscape on its own ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Autobiography of Red

    by Anne Carson ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Men in the Off Hours

    by Anne Carson ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red ("A spellbinding achievement" --Susan Sontag), a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson's signature mixture of opposites--the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse.In Men in the Off Hours, Carson reinvents figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon. She views the writings of Sappho, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Earthly Pages

    The Poetry of Don Domanski

    by Don Domanski ...
    Series series Laurier Poetry
    With The Cape Breton Book of the Dead, Don Domanski emerged as a remarkable new voice in Canadian poetry, combining formal conciseness with broad cosmic allusions, constant surprise with brooding atmospherics, and innovative syntax with delicate phrasings. In subsequent collections, Domanski’s poetry has deepened and expanded, with longer lines and more complex structures that journey into the far ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Ten Canadian Writers in Context

    Edited by Marie Carrière, Curtis Gillespie, Jason Purcell ...
    Series series Robert Kroetsch Series
    Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature. This anthology offers readers samples from some of Canada’s most exciting writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Each selection is ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Other People's Lives

    The History of a London Lot

    by Chris Hutchinson ...
    Exciting music, delicious ironies, radiant self-awareness. With imagination, wit and scrupulous candour, Chris Hutchinson’s poems negotiate and renegotiate the shifting no-man’s-land between self and others, introspection and public life. Here are poems carrying unflinching perceptions on their own innovative, edgy music, refusing inflations of rhetoric and complacent notions of the inner life, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Divine Mischief

    Poetry & Short Stories by R.A.Lucas

    by R.A. Lucas ...
    Divine Mischief is the first anthology collection of poetry and short stories by Montreal-born writer R.A.Lucas. Arranged in chronological order, it begins with a small selection of previously unpublished poems dating from the late 1960s and early 1970s. These are followed by a few poems from his first book, Rambling, which in turn is followed by poetry republished from his second book, For Billy ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Killdeer

    essay-poems

    by Phil Hall ...
    Series Book 4 - Department of Critical Thought
    WINNER OF THE 75th GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRYWINNER OF THE 25th TRILLIUM BOOK PRIZEWINNER OF AN ALCUIN AWARD FOR DESIGNSHORTLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZEThese are poems of critical thought that have been influenced by old fiddle tunes. These are essays that are not out to persuade so much as ruminate, invite, accrue.Hall is a surruralist (rural & surreal), and a terroir-ist ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Late Moon

    by Pamela Porter ...
    This stunning collection will break your heart and put it back together again, as Pamela Porter unravels a long-held family secret in a moving personal search for redemption, face to face with the question of her own identity. As she says, “It was this way when Rome was burning, / and was not so different / when dark fires flared / outside the walls of Eden.” These poems brim with deep longing, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD