« L’auteure, Maude Smith Gagnon, procède par des touches narratives bien ciselées que sert une belle maîtrise de la langue. Un drap. Une place., à la forme très minimale, proche d’une sensibilité orientale, est un hommage à l’intensité...
Poetry
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Author:Smith Gagnon, MaudeSummary: - Author:Glenn, Lorri NeilsenSummary:
Mothers of the 1950s were wasp-waisted, dutiful, serene, and tied to the kitchen with apron strings. Or so we thought. This collection of searing and startling poetry and prose unties the stereotype and reveals women who were strong,...
- Author:Lee, John B.Summary:
Winner of the 1995 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize
Variations on Herb is the latest in a lengthening series of books that emanate from the south-western Ontario farm of John B. Lee's childhood. The focus of...
- Author:BULL, MargaretSummary:
A collection of verse from the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia.
- Author:Williamson, AlexSummary:
Very Bright, Almost Pretty, by Alexander Williamson explores the largely under-represented impact of Cystic Fibrosis, a life-threatening disease affecting over four thousand Canadians, and their families. The poems wander through...
- Author:Phaneuf, RichardSummary:
Fille d’eau et de sable, sur les rives de ce long fleuve, libre d’espaces, tu imaginais tes contes de fée. Le bonheur ! Tu as couru dans les prés parmi les fleurs, les ronces, les blés. Vient un temps où on désapprend le rêve et se...
- Author:Jones, RodneySummary:
"A novel in language as dense and lush and beautiful as poetry ... [or] a book of poetry with the vivid characters and the narrative force of a novel' Whatever you care to call it, it's a remarkable achievement." -...
- Author:Nguyen, HoaSummary:
The poems in Violet Energy Ingots contain a sense of dis-ease, rupture, things frayed, and grief—as love shimmers the edges. Ryo Yamaguchi describes Nguyen’s writing as “a kind of stuttering with intelligences, impressions, and emotions...
- Author:Nye, Naomi ShihabSummary:
A collection of almost one hundred poems in honor of the artists, writers, poets, historical figures, ordinary people, and diverse luminaries from past and present who inspire us.
- Author:Pierce, E. AlexSummary:
Poems of great passion and tenderness, as close to rapture as a writer can get and still hold on.
E. Alex Pierce’s voice can be heard echoing down the long corridors of memory and myth. It’s not that these poems live in the past...
- Author:Ball, Tarriona "Tank,"Summary:
The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated recording artist and slam poet Tarriona "Tank" Ball about infatuation, love, and heartbreak. The real-life story of a relationship in the author's past told in verse and...
- Author:Huebert, DavidSummary:
From the drunk tank to the graduate seminar, We are no longer the smart kids in class asks what it means to think and be, play and learn, ride bikes and make love in a world of depleting resources, technological proliferation, and...
- Author:Fournier, Danielle, Tipper, ChristineSummary:
To read Danielle Fournier is to plunge into the centre of a woman’s heart and body – a heart that continues to beat, to search and to hope spurred on by a sensual, desirable – and desiring – body. Not only physical and emotional,...
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We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa is a fascinating anthology of some of the finest contemporary poetic voices from twenty-nine African countries. Inspired by the examples of first generation African poets like Wole...
- Author:Nudelman, MerleSummary:
Merle Nudelman plumbs the nuances and vagaries which define our relationships and the shifting moments of lover, abuser, victim, and healer. The imagery in We, the Women is at once startling and evocative. Poems of layered scenes of...
- Author:Robinsong, ErinSummary:
"Wet Dream is an expansive book of ecological thinking for living on a wet planet on fire. Erotic and political, vibrating with pleasures, medicines, and unrest, these poems metabolize toxic logics and traverse enmeshed ecologies...
- Author:Harper, JennicaSummary:
What It Feels Like for a Girl is a series of poems following the intense friendship between two teenagers as they explore pop icons, pornography, and the big, strange world of sex. They soon learn just how complicated sexuality is--and...
- Author:Davis, DeganSummary:
What does it mean to be a man now? These poems' answers are bold and deeply moving.
- Author:Patriarca, GiannaSummary:
What My Arms Can Carry is Gianna Patriarca's fourth book of poetry. She returns to the themes she explored first in the award winning Italian Women and Other Tragedies (Guernica Editions 1994) - the dislocation wrought on the lives of...
- Author:Bailey, Desiree C.Summary:
The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America....
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