In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through...
Poetry
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Author:Vuong, OceanSummary: - Author:Oughton, JohnSummary:
Drawn from the author's 60-year journey through the Middle East, Japan, and North America, this collection of poems offers a variety of engaging styles, ranging from sonnets to haiku to free-form experimentation, while considering the...
- Author:Graham, JorieSummary:
It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single worm, to hear soil breathe - in Jorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, you do. Jorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, To 2040,...
- Author:Lee, John B.Summary:
A long poem dramatizing the clash in visions of the land which occurs when a white settler builds on a sacred Iroquois site.
- Author:Chiasson, Herménégilde, Elder, Jo-Anne, Chiasson, HerménégildeSummary:
First published in 1974, Mourir à Scoudouc emerged out of a period of cultural awakening. Chiasson's poems denounced the narrow limitations of the past and traced the lines of a fresh collective vision. The poems were lyrical,...
- Author:Lux, ThomasSummary:
A brilliant new collection of poems by Kingsley Tufts Award-winning poet Thomas Lux
- Author:Rozycki, TomaszSummary:
Tomasz Różycki’s To the Letter follows Lieutenant Anielewicz on the hunt for any clues that might lead 21st century human beings out of a sense of despair. With authoritarianism rising across Eastern Europe, the Lieutenant longs for a...
- Author:Phillips, ElizabethSummary:
Winner, Lesbian Poetry at the 2008 GCLS Literary Awards (Golden Crown Literary Awards) and nominated for LGBT Poetry at the Lambda Literary Awards
Shortlisted for the 2007 Anne Szumigalsi Award for Poetry and the 2007 Saskatoon...
- Author:Stephens, NathalieSummary:
From the ruins of poetry, fiction and philosophy comes Touch To Affliction, a meditation on the notion of homeland, on patrie and the inhumanity that arises from it. This is a text obsessed with ruins: the ruins of genre, of language,...
- Author:Cook, MéiraSummary:
Shortlisted for the 1997 Pat Lowther Award and for the 1997 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
Toward a Catalogue of Falling, Méira Cook’s second full-length book, proves that the fall into language can be both...
- Author:Cooper, AllanSummary:
This collection brings together Allan Cooper's best poems over the last forty years. He weaves visions of nature with insight into the workings of the human heart. Read them individually or read them as a single long, flowing and...
- Author:Guénette, DanielSummary:
Le doute apparaît ici comme un antidote à la folie meurtrière de ceux qui imposent leurs certitudes. Un certain dieu semble avoir la vie dure et s’ingénier, à travers ses prétendus représentants, à rendre l’existence des hommes tout à...
- Author:Sexton, AnneSummary:
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton morphs classic fairy tales into dark critiques of the cultural myths underpinning modern society Anne Sexton breathes new life into sixteen age-old Brothers Grimm fairy tales, reimagining them as...
- Author:MacLean, KathSummary:
The hunt over; the kill complete / limping towards perfection, padding / about the room, thorns in her thumbs / Hermes crawling on all fours - / That was the last I saw of Hilda. What is it to remember a life, to relive it, to...
- Author:Novakovich, JosipSummary:
In this latest short-story collection Josip Novakovich explores the shallow roots of emigration as he traverses North America from university post to writing residency. These stunning stories showcase the author at his most intimate,...
- Author:Paddon, SusanSummary:
Winner of the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award (East Coast Literary Awards)
Chekhov’s work and life fuse with a daughter’s caring for her dying mother in this powerful debut.
Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths is a book-length...
- Author:Roches, Roger Des, D'Alfonso, AntonioSummary:
Translated by award-winning author Antonio D’Alfonso, this collection presents four books by prolific Quebec writer Roger Des Roches. Considered by many scholars and critics to be one of the founders of modernity in Quebec, Des Roches’...
- Author:Blythe, AliSummary:
Shortlisted, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Part roving eye, part devotion, you wander hotel corridors, entering rooms not quite yours, trying on clothes, blankets, skins. Arguing with the body's limits and its trickery, you are always...
- Author:Reddy, SrikanthSummary:
Simultaneously funny and frightful, Srikanth Reddy's Underworld Lit is a multiverse quest through various cultures' realms of the dead. Couched in a literature professor's daily mishaps with family life and his sudden...
- Author:Goyette, SueSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2005 Atlantic Poetry Prize, the 2005 Dartmouth Book Award and the 2005 Acorn-Plantos Award for People’s Poetry
Undone is a cornucopia of passionate poems arranged into three sections. “Forgotten” has...
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