"I was touched by the depth of passion and awed by the firm resolve with which Mattie Stepanek pursued a dream that has evaded men and women throughout history. What began as a casual discourse, not too different from others I have had...
Poetry
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Author:Stepanek, Mattie J. T., Carter, JimmySummary: - Author:Campbell, WandaSummary:
This collection “spattered diversely by the trades that we live by” as Pablo Neruda puts it, reflects the variety of influences that have shaped the poet’s craft. Kalamkari (from the Persian for “pen craft”) refers to the hand-painted...
- Author:Trainor, KimSummary:
A remarkable debut that expresses a humanism grounded in physiology.
At the heart of Karyotype is the Beauty of Loulan, a woman who lived four thousand years ago, her body preserved in the cool, dry sands of the...
- Author:Meyers, SusanSummary:
Keep and Give Away was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In her first full-length collection, Susan Meyers guides us through her...
- Author:Dickinson, AdamSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2007 Trillium Book Award for Poetry
Ecologically aware poems, hardwired to the intellect and the heart in equal measure.
Adam Dickinson’s poems, with firm intellectual bite and imaginative scope, reach...
- Author:Victor, DivyaSummary:
kith [noun] one's friends, acquaintances, neighbours, or relations.In Kith, award-winning writer Divya Victor engages Indian-American diasporic culture in the twentieth century, via an autobiographical account that explores what 'kith'...
- Author:Nichol, bpSummary:
Better break out your sledgehammer - it's time for a little concrete! Concrete poetry, that is. Concrete what? Well, it's poetry that's a lot like art - its meaning comes from what it looks like instead of the order of the words, so it'...
- Author:Alexandre, AlfredSummary:
Résumé La ballade de Leïla Khane est un grand poème ou peut-être un étrange bateau. Leïla nomme l'absence. Cette légende fait de l'amour une île qui évite aux amants la mort et la folie. C'est encore Leïla qui...
- Author:Maréchal, MarièveSummary:
La chambre organique est une façon d’exprimer la colère à la fois malgré et à travers les lieux et les corps. Elle est un tiers-espace. Un métissage. Mais aussi une quête.
- Author:Jean MarcelSummary:
Saragosse, dernier bastion païen en terre d'Espagne, résiste toujours à Charlemagne, l'empereur de la très catholique France. C'est à Roland, son indomptable neveu, que se voit échue la noble mission de soumettre le...
- Author:Savard-Huot, HélèneSummary:
Cet ouvrage utilise la poésie comme un jeu d’ombre et de lumière à travers lequel vous pourrez trouver votre voix, votre voie, votre vie. Une invitation à mieux vous connaître mais aussi de partir à la découverte de l’autre. Nul besoin...
- Author:Bruck, Julie, Messier, William S.Summary:
Le regard compatissant et précis grâce auquel ses livres précédents ont retenu l’attention se retrouve de nouveau dans le troisième recueil de Julie Bruck, Monkey Ranch. Qu’est-ce qui est suffisant, qu’est-ce qui suffira? C’est la...
- Author:Marquis, AndréSummary:
À la surface agitée des eaux, un voilier navigue sur une mer plutôt calme. Contradiction ? Tout dépend du sens que l’ on accorde à « agité ». L’ agitation dont il est question dans les suites qui ouvrent et ferment le recueil témoigne...
- Author:Smith, Douglas BurnetSummary:
In his fifth book of poetry, Douglas Burnet Smith tunes his eye and ear closely to the world, conscious of those points where the everyday blossoms into fierce magic. The title sequence is a deftly-rendered homage to the work of Georgia...
- Author:Borzutzky, DanielSummary:
Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. Thinking about the ways in which economic policy, racism...
- Author:Zelazo, SuzanneSummary:
Modernist poet-painters Mina Loy and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven had many friends in common (including Djuna Barnes and Marcel Duchamp), yet there is no record that the two ever met. Their non-relationship presents a curious...
- Author:Gorga, Gemma, Dolin, SharonSummary:
The first book in the inaugural series Malinda A. Markham Memorial Translation Prize, Late to the House of Words: Selected Poems of Gemma Gorga brings together in one volume poems from six of this contemporary Catalan poet's books,...
- Author:Colistro, VincentSummary:
“I was only born into the world,” begins one of Vincent Colistro’s poems, “didn’t invade it, didn’t ransom it for a nicer one.” Late Victorians, Colistro’s debut, is a beguilingly irreverent investigation of the life he was “born into...
- Author:RANGER, LauraSummary:
Here are poems written by Laura between the ages of six and nine, poems about zoos and pets, parents and little brothers. They are full of life and intelligent good humour, and set a new standard for poetry by young writers.
- Author:Campbell, ChadSummary:
Beginning with the arrival of the Campbell clan in Canada in 1827— “pale Scot farmers fording the river, / seated backwards in refusal”—Laws & Locks tracks the history of one family’s struggle with depression, madness and mental...
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