Governor General's Award-winning poet Arleen Paré combines the story of two first best friends with questions of the mystery of cosmic first cause. The poems in First, Arleen Paré's seventh collection, search for a long-lost...
Poetry
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Author:Paré, ArleenSummary: - Author:Lavoie, Daniel, Therrien, Joanne, Le Gall, HuguetteSummary:
La fi nutilité m’habite…Pourquoi ceci me diras-tu?Pour la poésie du futile, la beauté de l’éphémère…Pour la beauté infi nie de la tristesse.Pour moi pour toi qui sommes à la fois rien,à la fois tout.
- Author:Schönmaier, EleonoreSummary:
A (re)creation of the surreality and altered time within deep states of grieving, Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete juxtaposes sorrow with fragmentary unapologetic joy. Eleonore Schönmaier forges compelling symphonic resonances...
- Author:Eng, JeanSummary:
Festival of All Souls explores the experience of an Asian woman born in Canada. Although neither fully rooted in one or the other, the influence of two different cultures allows heritage, gender and values to nonetheless, enrich a...
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Author:Smith, DennisonSummary:The poetry of Fermata, like the pause or hold in music which the word signifies, conjures the audible spaces between notes and the suspended moment. As the author puts it, this is “terse but lateral but lyrical writing.” Her words “are...
- Author:Chubbs, BoydSummary:
A figure journeys through his Old City, speaking sonnets - some from memory, some from contemporary condition and relationship with his place. He has no way to return home. He is in exile.
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Author:Bifford, DarrenSummary:Poems about commitment and catastrophe, from a voice of intense lyrical skepticism and wonderful tonal mobility.
- Author:Press, KarenSummary:
With vicious wit, K. I. Press pries open the intimacies of our lives in her collection of poetry, Exquisite Monsters. Fearless and weird, she splays open motherhood and mourning, laying them cheek by jowl next to biomechanical androids...
- Author:Cross-Blanchard, MollySummary:
Smart, raunchy poems that are sorry-not-sorry. Sticky, sad, and sultry, Exhibitionist is a merry-go-round circling back to the tender, awkward parts of ourselves. Molly Cross-Blanchard allows her poems to ask the reader out for ice...
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Author:Dickinson, EmilySummary:Includes 75 poems as well as commentary and readings from some of Emily's letters and notes.
- Author:Mansour, JoyceSummary:
Joyce Mansour, a Syrian Jewish exile from Egypt, was 25 years old when she published her first book in Paris in 1953. Her fierce, macabre, erotically charged works caught the eye of André Breton, who welcomed her into his Surrealist...
- Author:Verret, AiméeSummary:
Le corps d’Isadora n’est plus. Si l’on peut survivre à un accident de la route, on n’échappe pas aux multiples deuils qui ponctuent l’existence, comme à ces nuits qu’il faut traverser, seul ou à deux. On tire une ficelle, on se tricote...
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Author:Momaday, N. ScottSummary:Poet N. Scott Momaday reflects on his native ground and its influence on his people. He recalls stories of his childhood passed down through generations that reveal a profound, sacred connection to the American landscape and a reverence...
- Author:Zalitis, DominiqueSummary:
Du frimas sur la mer, c'est le parcours d'une vie comme une grande traversée, là où le vent s'exprime dans tout ce qui meurt et qui renaît. Affrontant vents et marées, avec des larmes de mer dans les veines, la poète retourne à la...
- Author:McManus, RaySummary:
Selected by Kate Daniels as the winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Driving Through the Country Before You Are Born is the first collection of poetry from Ray McManus. The speaker in these poems searches for redemption and...
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Author:Sokolovski, MayaSummary:The stories, poems, and sundry pieces that form Maya Sokolovski’s debut collection, Double-Click Flash Fic, are written in an experimental style that spans the epistolary, the postmodern, the lyric, and the absurd. Together they chart...
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Author:Dempster, BarrySummary:Shortlisted for the 2017 Raymond Souster Award
A beloved poet explores why life is so rich, even at the worst of times.
Disturbing the Buddha, Barry Dempster’s fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational...
- Author:Ross, Diane-IshaSummary:
Il y avait deux filles, l’une au ras de la ville, l’autre dans le puits, et chacune voyait ses étoiles, et la nuit protégeait leur privauté. Ça aurait pu bien tourner, mais la peur et la peur d’avoir mal de soi blessant l’autre et...
- Author:Franco, JamesSummary:
The debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco. I’m a nocturnal creature, And I’m here to cheat time. You can see time and exhaustion Taking pay from my face—In fifty years My sleep will be death, I’ll go...
- Author:Forget, Jean-GuySummary:
Lorsque son cousin décède de façon tragique, le narrateur est incapable de pleurer. Le jour des funérailles, le jeune garçon, submergé d'émotions qu'il ne comprend pas, repousse le plus longtemps possible le moment des adieux....
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