Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) was a priest, a mystic, and nearly a heretic (he died before the Church court's verdict). In the 20th century, the Roman Catholic Church rehabilitated him and the late Pope John Paul II spoke of his work with...
Poetry
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Author:Sweeney, Jon M.Summary: - Author:Schott, BarbaraSummary:
In Memoirs of an Almost Expedition, Barbara Schott peels back the skin of language to reveal its musculature, its bone. She also peels back the skin of relations, the intimate rub of self against self, to find both great...
- Author:Leav, LangSummary:
For fans of Lang Leav, this beautiful gift book is a must-have! Beloved pieces from Lullabies and Love and Misadventure are collected together in this illustrated treasury. In addition, 35 new poems that have not been published in any...
- Author:Kazuk, A. R.Summary:
From Microphones there will be no returning to the standard detective story. This long poem/videotext ticks right along on its narrative marginalia alone, but its substance is an interplay of voices and its essence is high-...
- Author:Tierney, MatthewSummary:
Think Kierkegaard in a spacesuit, Kubrik in a Left Bank café. Like the neutrino observatory of its title, Midday at the Super-Kamiokande seeks "glimpses of the obscure" to carve out meaning, alternately a resistance to...
- Author:Reibetanz, JohnSummary:
Reading John Reibetanz, one is struck with the way language, closely attended to, kept oiled and sharp, can give experience back its bite. And conversely, how experience can be the whetstone for language, chastening its presumptions and...
- Author:Kaur, RupiSummary:
The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds...
- Author:Reibetanz, JohnSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2001 ReLit Awards
John Reibetanz is good on grief: “You, mother,/ dying, left what was hard first:/ bones weeping into/ / your veins like flutes, teeth/ vanished on some hospital/ lunch tray” This conjunction...
- Author:Trotter, JoshuaSummary:
A spun radio dial passing clean through poetry. A stuttering loop of Endgame recorded by Stockhausen, remixed by Kraftwerk. The chatter of minotaurs and metadata. Transmissions from far-off futures or new pasts, recordings from a...
- Author:Webster, DerekSummary:
In poetry that strikes a delicate balance between candour and lament., Mockingbird tracks the aftershocks of a failed marriage through a variety of self-portraits. Derek Webster’s speakers itemize their regrets and fears while keeping...
- Author:Prior, MichaelSummary:
A mesmerizing and moving first collection, Model Disciple gives us a poetry of two minds. Confounded by Japanese-Canadian legacies too painful to fully embrace, Michael Prior’s split speakers struggle to understand themselves as they...
- Author:Rees, AlasdairSummary:
Dans ce recueil, l'écologie que l'auteur partage avec nous est à la fois celle de l'intérieur de l'être et celle du monde extérieur. Dans cette rencontre de la physique et de la philosophie sont décortiqués avec soin le processus de la...
- Author:Bruck, JulieSummary:
Winner of the 2012 Governor General’s Award for Poetry
Globe 100 Book for 2012
Shortlisted for Pat Lowther Memorial Award and CAA Award for Poetry 2013
Comic and sober by turns, these poems ask us
... - Author:Cook, MeiraSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2016 ReLit Award
Dazzling collection of masques from Manitoba Book of the Year– and Walrus Poetry Prize–winning author.
Monologue Dogs is a series of contemporary dramatic monologues. Every “...
- Author:Skene, Pat, Ross, GrahamSummary:
In Monster Lunch we dine with Frankenstein, attend a burgoo and a birthday party, meet a grumpy garden dude and slurp hot zoop. Each poem is followed by an interview with the main character or fascinating facts about food. This...
- Author:Garebian, KeithSummary:
Moon on Wild Grasses, with illustrations by the author, shows the unsuspected scope of a very concise, precise poetic form. Keith Garebian's haiku encompass a wide range of themes in a vividly elegant style that combines the pictorial...
- Author:Paquin, Éric-GuySummary:
Dérouté par des amours fuyantes, le poète s’investit dans une topographie du corps masculin. Il délaisse ses jardins et ses rêves étoilés, parcourt des lieux de rencontres, tant virtuels que réels. Bains vapeurs, voyages, sites Internet...
- Author:Von Radics, ClementineSummary:
Clementine von Radics writes of love, loss and the uncertainties and beauties of life with a ravishing poetic voice and piercing bravura that speak directly not only to the sensibility of her generation, but to anyone who has ever been...
- Author:Christakos, MargaretSummary:
Poet Margaret Christakos, throughout her eight previous poetry collections, has created ruptures and splices inside of and against the limits of the confessional lyric, often using recombinatory procedures, cyclical and serial structure...
- Author:Mort, ValzhynaSummary:
In her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history. With shocking, unforgettable lyric force, Valzhyna Mort's Music for the Dead and Resurrected confronts...
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