Shapero writes in an urgent vernacular that flirts, stings, implores and demands with apparent abandon."--Houston Chronicle "Shapero's poetics has real-world import for the way we use language to talk about messy things."-Volta Thought-...
Poetry
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Auteur:Oliver, AlexandraSommaire:Hail, The Invisible Watchman is haunted poetry--Oliver's formal schemes are as tidy as a picket-fence and as suggestive; behind the charm of rhyme is a vibrant, dark exploration of domestic and social alienation. The poems in Hail...
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Auteur:CHOPRA, DeepakSommaire:Human ageing is reversible. Scientific research shows that we can literally turn back the markers of getting old, including blood pressure, muscle strength, cholesterol levels and many others. Using the tools in this book, you can learn...
- Auteur:Cowper, DanielSommaire:
Afraid to be alone / we met by lamplight, trading stories: // Sin of Man was one, // Age of Science, another. More // prayers than answers. Daniel Cowper's debut poetry collection, Grotesque Tenderness, speaks for an unrooted age,...
- Auteur:Actis, AndreaSommaire:
'Please stay with me, please stay here, please cause poltergeists in my stupid apartment...' Late in the evening of December 13, 2007, Andrea Actis found her father, Jeff, facedown dead in her East Vancouver apartment. So...
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Auteur:Caldwell, ClaireSommaire:Poetry that explores what it means to be a woman—a settler woman—in the wilderness.
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Auteur:Noyes, SteveSommaire:“In a sober and carefully understated voice I say: this is a damn good poet.” Al Purdy on Backing into Heaven
Ghost Country enters the difficult electric air between cultures and lovers, alive to the fierce...
- Auteur:Toone, JohnSommaire:
From Out of Nowhere explores how cities have changed the landscape for prairie poetry. The poems find the intersections where nature speaks through cowboys, hunters, fishers, farmers, and businessmen. These voices are captured in...
- Auteur:Pipar, RosetteSommaire:
Fragments II est la suite du premier recueil de poèmes Fragments I. Il a pour principale l’écrit, personnifiant la vie intérieure qui vibre en duo. Il se fait l’écho de la voie profonde captant le souffle brut qui quête sa parcelle d’...
- Auteur:Pipar, RosetteSommaire:
Comme autant de mémoires surgissant de chaque instant, les mots se fragmentent et forment le kaléidoscope de la Vie. Un regard, une émotion, un souvenir ravivent l'impression forte nichée au fond de l'âme attendant l'heure d'imbiber le...
- Auteur:Crate, JoanSommaire:
Foreign Homes, Joan Crate's second book of poems, explores domesticity and dislocation, where what was thought to be home becomes alien, and where the alien is, piece by piece, made into home -- often in such simple, physical acts...
- Auteur:Paré, ArleenSommaire:
Governor General's Award-winning poet Arleen Paré combines the story of two first best friends with questions of the mystery of cosmic first cause. The poems in First, Arleen Paré's seventh collection, search for a long-lost...
- Auteur:Lavoie, Daniel, Therrien, Joanne, Le Gall, HuguetteSommaire:
La fi nutilité m’habite…Pourquoi ceci me diras-tu?Pour la poésie du futile, la beauté de l’éphémère…Pour la beauté infi nie de la tristesse.Pour moi pour toi qui sommes à la fois rien,à la fois tout.
- Auteur:Schönmaier, EleonoreSommaire:
A (re)creation of the surreality and altered time within deep states of grieving, Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete juxtaposes sorrow with fragmentary unapologetic joy. Eleonore Schönmaier forges compelling symphonic resonances...
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Auteur:Smith, DennisonSommaire:The poetry of Fermata, like the pause or hold in music which the word signifies, conjures the audible spaces between notes and the suspended moment. As the author puts it, this is “terse but lateral but lyrical writing.” Her words “are...
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Auteur:Bifford, DarrenSommaire:Poems about commitment and catastrophe, from a voice of intense lyrical skepticism and wonderful tonal mobility.
- Auteur:Press, KarenSommaire:
With vicious wit, K. I. Press pries open the intimacies of our lives in her collection of poetry, Exquisite Monsters. Fearless and weird, she splays open motherhood and mourning, laying them cheek by jowl next to biomechanical androids...
- Auteur:Cross-Blanchard, MollySommaire:
Smart, raunchy poems that are sorry-not-sorry. Sticky, sad, and sultry, Exhibitionist is a merry-go-round circling back to the tender, awkward parts of ourselves. Molly Cross-Blanchard allows her poems to ask the reader out for ice...
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Auteur:Dickinson, EmilySommaire:Includes 75 poems as well as commentary and readings from some of Emily's letters and notes.
- Auteur:Mansour, JoyceSommaire:
Joyce Mansour, a Syrian Jewish exile from Egypt, was 25 years old when she published her first book in Paris in 1953. Her fierce, macabre, erotically charged works caught the eye of André Breton, who welcomed her into his Surrealist...
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