Turn out the lights, cuddle with your love, and shiver to tales from the greatest fright-meisters in the world. This collection offers the best classics for lovers of the macabre.
Poetry
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Author:Summary: - Author:Freeman, JohnSummary:
Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America-including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen...
- Author:Sylvestre, RobertSummary:
Il peut nous sembler qu’une porte est fermée, comme un cœur peut l’être. Des mains chercheuses s’activent cependant, dans les directions contradictoires propres à l’époque. Sous la canicule – voire l’effroi – le mystère pourtant demeure...
- Author:Maltman, KimSummary:
This extraordinary sequence of prose and free verse poems explores the postures, styles, and rhetorics of our culture and its history -- not with the predictable aim of criticism and rejection, or the fashionable aim of recombinant word...
- Author:Peerbaye, SorayaSummary:
Tell: Poems for a girlhood is a collection based on the story of Reena Virk, who was murdered on November 14th, 1997, in a suburb of Victoria, British Columbia. The poems make use of what was spoken in the trials of the young people...
- Author:Thibaudeau, ColleenSummary:
A sequence of elegiac poems by the least recognized major poet in Canada, celebrating place all the way to glory.
- Author:Calabrò, CorradoSummary:
A bilingual English-Italian collection of love poems, Text Me/Dimmelo per SMS expresses through language and metaphor the many ways to say "I love you." Calabrò's poems often evolve from the experiences of the body: from...
- Author:Hopler, JaySummary:
Jay Hopler's second collection, a mourning song for his father, is an elegy of uproar, a careening hymn to disaster and its aftermath. In lyric poems by turns droll and desolate, Hopler documents the struggle to live in the face of...
- Author:VirgilSummary:
aeneas-the son of a human and Venus, the goddess of love-escapes the siege of Troy with a boat full of other Trojans, and sails for Italy where he is destined to found the city of Rome. A storm diverts them to Carthage, where aeneas...
- Author:Lane, M. TravisSummary:
Lane is a pluralist in outlook and technique whose work, over the years, has explored civic space, domestic space, wilderness space, and interiorized psychic spaces. I've long enjoyed Lane's openness to idiosyncrasy - her willingness to...
- Author:Peacock, MollySummary:
In her latest collection Molly Peacock, one of Canada's most beloved poets, tells the story of her longtime psychoanalyst who returned to painting after surviving a stroke. By translating techniques of visual art into language, The...
- Author:Tolmie, SarahSummary:
Hate to tell you, but you're going to die. / Quite soon. Me, too. / Shuck off the wisdom while it's warm. / Death does no harm / To wisdom. Sarah Tolmie's second collection of poems is a traditional ars moriendi, a how-to book on the...
- Author:Thibaudeau, ColleenSummary:
Granddaughters, asters, Medea cakes, para pom tandle, Mrs. Roker raking, Caraquet, angelic recurrence, Neruda, zupzupzup, the high bush cranberries, the Somme, a waterfall in Iceland that cries by the thousandsful, the Strawberry Shaman...
- Author:Leckie, RossSummary:
No postmodern gimmickry, no tricks except all the old ones that every good poet must learn: these lucid, evocative poems put the reader so clearly in the picture that you taste the blackberries of your childhood, shiver at the chill of...
- Author:Guttman, NaomiSummary:
Under the sugar maples of Montreal, family life is given mythic dimensions
in this sweeping novella-in-verse.If Dionysus and Ariadne lived in Montreal in the late twentieth century, would he serve veal stuffed with apples...
- Author:Chenette, SueSummary:
In unflinching lyrics, Sue Chenette confronts her father’s depression and death. Probing memories, fingering mementos – a square nail, a sketch on a napkin – she examines them for what they may reveal of the father she was sure she knew...
- Author:Jones, DanielSummary:
First published in 1985, when Daniel Jones was just 26, The Brave Never Write Poetry, the poet/critic/novelist's lone collection of poems, was a cult hit, turning 'poetry' on its head before its author (then known simply as 'Jones')...
- Author:DeVries, Rachel GuidoSummary:
Death and its many mysteries are explored in these autobiographical poems about the passing of the poet's beloved brother, the dementia that claimed her father, and the inevitable bodily changes that come with age. Experimenting with...
- Author:Rogers, LindaSummary:
These poems test the capacity of individuals, families, communities, and the earth itself to stand the pressures of modern life. They walk the tightrope over the chasm between male and female, love and hate, child and adult, war and...
- Author:Chaucer, GeoffreySummary:
At the Tabard Inn, thirty travelers of widely varying classes and occupations are gathering to make the annual pilgrimage to Becket's shrine at Canterbury. It is agreed that each traveler will tell four tales to help pass the time...
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