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  • Love Outlandish
    Author:
    Dempster, Barry
    Summary:

    A love affair chronicled – from obsession to heartbreak, foolhardiness to faith.

    In Love Outlandish, Barry Dempster undoes all the clichés that have barnacled our love lives and, with the zest and courage typical of his...
  • Love poems
    Author:
    Neruda, Pablo
    Summary:

    Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie Il Postino, now in a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just to say "I love you!"Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo...
  • Love poems & a good cry : what we learn from tears and laughter
    Author:
    Giovanni, Nikki
    Summary:

    The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. Giovanni offers an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart.
  • Love, an index
    Author:
    Lindenberg, Rebecca
    Summary:

    A man disappears. The woman who loves him is left scarred and haunted. In her fierce, one-of-a-kind debut, Rebecca Lindenberg tells the story-in verse-of her passionate relationship with Craig Arnold, a much-respected poet who...
  • Lyric sexology : vol. 1
    Author:
    Salah, Trish
    Summary:

    Through lyric and language poetry, this book explores and reimagines archives and histories of transsexuality and gender-from psychoanalysis, sexology, literature, anthropology, and feminism, as well as personal history.
  • Magyarazni
    Author:
    Hajnoczky, Helen
    Summary:

    The word "magyarázni" (pronounced MUG-yar-az-knee) means "to explain" in Hungarian, but translates literally as "make it Hungarian." This faux-Hungarian language primer, written in direct address, invites readers to experience what it's...
  • Magyarázni
    Author:
    Hajnoczky, Helen
    Summary:

    The word "magyarAzni" (pronounced MAUDE-yar-az-knee) means "to explain" in Hungarian, but translates literally as "make it Hungarian." This faux-Hungarian language primer, written in direct address, invites readers to experience what it...
  • Mahoning
    Author:
    Moritz, A. F.
    Summary:

    Few artists (one thinks of Rilke and Hopkins) have presumed to evoke the spirit of embodied Nature. A. F. Moritz not only succeeds in thus animating a living world, but he deals with our human presence and assault on it with sympathy...
  • Make me rain : poems & prose
    Author:
    Giovanni, Nikki
    Summary:

    In this profound book of poetry, Nikki Giovanni celebrates her loved ones and unapologetically declares her pride in her Black heritage, while exploring the enduring impact of the twin sins of racism and white nationalism. Giovanni...
  • Marimba forever
    Author:
    Christy, Jim
    Summary:

    The poetry in Marimba Forever is concerned with love and longing, which the author displays in all their multifarious guises. Many of the poems can be regarded as small films: nourish, action, farce or slapstick; others call music to...
  • Marrying the Animals
    Author:
    Hoogland, Cornelia
    Summary:

    Near the centre of Marrying the Animals, Cornelia Hoogland’s new book of poetry, is the sequence “In the Meantime: Elizabeth Smart Poems” Hoogland’s exploration of Smart’s obsession with the poet George Barker is an apt heart...
  • Marrying the Sea Selected Poems
    Author:
    Keefer, Janice Kulyk
    Summary:

    Winner of the 1999 CAA Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 1999 Pat Lowther Award

    Fantasies and meditations on friendship and on love: erotic, romantic, tormented, spurned, married, illicit,...
  • Martyrology : books 3 & 4
    Author:
    Nichol, bp
    Summary:

    ‘All of Nichol’s work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking...
  • Martyrology : book 5
    Author:
    Nichol, bp
    Summary:

    All of Nichol's work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking...
  • Martyrology : book 6
    Author:
    Nichol, bp
    Summary:

    'All of Nichol’s work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking...
  • Martyrology : books 1 & 2
    Author:
    Nichol, bp
    Summary:

    ‘All of Nichol’s work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking...
  • Mask
    Author:
    Wolff, Elana
    Summary:

    Weaving homage and history, this collection of poetry was inspired by the life of Charlotte Saloman, the Berlin-born artist who perished at Auschwitz. Saloman was the author of Life? or Theatre? an evocative fictionalized autobiography...
  • Match
    Author:
    Guri, Helen
    Summary:

    Finalist for the 2012 Trillium Book Award for Poetry Robert Brand has given up on real women. Relationships just haven't ever worked out well for him. He has, however, found a (somewhat problematic) solution, a new feminine ideal: the...
  • Maze
    Author:
    Thomas, Hugh
    Summary:

    Drawing on the patterns of words, speech, and identity we encounter in the wider world--subway ads in Mexico City, a Dutch-Japanese phrase book, multilingual airplane safety instructions, one of Italo Calvino's invisible cities--...
  • Meditatio Placentae
    Author:
    Reid, Monty
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Poetry.

    A wide-ranging meditation by an accomplished poet on the uncontainable materiality of the world.

    From yoghurt tubs to pop-up books to bobcats, from cement trucks to lost socks to...

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