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Author:Johnston, Judith R.Summary: - Author:Williams, PipSummary:
The Dictionary of Lost Words is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as...
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Author:Pato, Chus, Moure, ErínSummary:Secession / Insecession is a homage to the acts of reading, writing and translating poetry. In it, Chus Pato’s Galician biopoetics of poet and nation, Secession – translated by Erín Moure – joins Moure’s Canadian translational...
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Author:McEwan, AndrewSummary:SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 GERALD LAMPAND MEMORIAL AWARDrepeater is a poetic investigation into the coding, function, language, and structure of computer programming. Using the ASCII 8-bit binary code as an acrostic, each lower-case...
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Author:Robinsong, ErinSummary:The ecological is personal; the personal is ecological. Rag Cosmology is a pulsating meditation on this most intimate relationship. These poems inject pleasure deep into the tissues of our language and state, countering fatalist...
- Author:Cote, Margaret, Cote, LynnSummary:
Mācī-Anihināpēmowin / Beginning Saulteaux is an introductory look at one of the most widely spoken of all North American Indigenous languages, regionally known as Saulteaux, Ojibway, Ottawa (Odawa), Chippewa, and Algonquian. In an easy-...
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Author:Goldstein, David B.Summary:Translation is the extrovert, metaphor the introvert. Without translation, there is no communication. Without metaphor, there is no art.Lost Originals, the latest collection of poetry from writer and scholar David Goldstein, explores...
- Author:Montell, AmandaSummary:
What causes people to join--and more importantly, stay in--extreme groups? We secretly want to know: Could it happen to me? Amanda Montell argues that, on some level, it already has.
