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Blackouts to Bright Lights

Blackouts to Bright Lights

Canadian War Bride Stories
edited by Barbara Ladouceur & Phyllis Spence
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In this bestseller, thirty-six Canadian war brides recount their early lives, their involvement in wartime duties, the magical/funny moments when they met their Canadian husbands-to-be and their journeys from Britain to Canada. The stories convey courage and humour: qualities that carried the war brides through the difficult war years and that cont …

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Notes on a Prison Wall

Notes on a Prison Wall

by Nicholas Catanoy
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In these poems, Nicholas Catanoy recreates the diary that he kept as a young cadet in Romania when he was imprisoned by the invading Russians. Taken out three times to be executed, Catanoy was one of the few from among the 200 prisoners to survive the random executions. After being released, Catanoy recreated in this memoir the impact of being a pr …

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Dementia Americana

Dementia Americana

by Keith Maillard
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As the title implies, Dementia Americana is about the craziness of America. In what he describes as "the most personal writing I have ever done," Keith Maillard meditates upon the implications for private life of the two most bizarre wars of our time: the Gulf War and the Vietnam War. Working within traditional closed forms, but stretching them to …

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a cappella

a cappella

Selected and New Poems
by Anne McKay
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These poems employ the short lyric as it derives from the haiku tradition. Through progressions of image clusters, anne mckay captures states of experience that elude the conscious mind: "but young / was there / . . . and heat / hung with scarlet hurry / and gates forgotten / under sly and hunting moons / of summer hurting." A high point of the col …

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Living Rivers of British Columbia, The (Vol 1)

Living Rivers of British Columbia, The (Vol 1)

Volume 1
by Gordon Davies
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Gordon Davies is one of British Columbia's foremost anglers and outdoor story writers. In Living Rivers, Davies tells of fishing the great rivers of British Columbia. More than a book of fishing stories, Living Rivers also serves as a guide. Each chapter includes photographs, directions to the river and to the best fishing locations, the types of f …

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Out of the Interior

Out of the Interior

The Lost Country
by Harold Rhenisch
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Extending the form of autobiography, Rhenisch explores the immigrant experience in the orchard gardens of the Okanagan. The search for paradise in the new land, its discovery and loss, are portrayed through the experiences of a young boy struggling against the authoritarianism of patriarchy. This is a book that helps to fill a gap in the history of …

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Phantoms in the Ark

by Al Moritz, illustrated by Ludwig Zeller
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Together and apart, the poet A. F. Moritz and the artist Ludwig Zeller enact the search for meaning within a shattered mechanical universe. The poem is present as well in a Spanish translation by Susana Wald, who has also conducted an interview with the poet and artist.

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Nicolette

Nicolette

by Robert Zend
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In this posthumous work, Robert Zend bends and often breaks every rule of layout and poetic convention. His text takes us into a time warp across two continents as his obsessive love for Nicolette, the unconquered muse, defies fate and gives birth to Nicolette, the book.. Zend was a prolific writer in both English and Hungarian. His collections of …

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Black Light

Black Light

by Ron Shaw
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"Ron Shaw is the finest new fictioneer I have seen in a long time. Black Light is a superb collection; it displays Shaw's amazing ability to occupy black and white skins and cultures simultaneously." - J. Michael Yates

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East Wind Blows West, The

East Wind Blows West, The

by George Jonas
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"Jonas has long been my favorite poet writing in English. . . . No one is better than George Jonas at taking the world around us in its populous dimensions and allowing its facets to reveal unknown lights." - J. Michael Yates

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Cuthbert and the Merpeople

Cuthbert and the Merpeople

by Kathy Mezei, illustrated by Anne Stratford
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Kathy Mezei tells a delightful story of Cuthbert (son of Nellie of Loch Ness), who swims via the Northwest Passage to Hornby Island, off the British Columbia coast, where, in the deep sea caverns, and much to the terror of the local Merpeople, he takes up residence. A tale filled with adventure and great tenderness, one that brings the adventures o …

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Sudden Proclamations

Sudden Proclamations

by Jerry Newman
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As a novelist, Jerry Newman has long enjoyed a distinguished reputation for his wide-ranging characterizations of individuals caught in social and political webs. Now in Sudden Proclamations, his first collection of poetry, Newman situates the reader within the shadowy, mind-lit inner world. Daring to show that human savagery knows no bottom line, …

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Unmarked Doors

Unmarked Doors

by Inge Israel
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In this rich collection of new poems, Inge Israel draws upon the many voices of her past - Russian, German, Danish, Irish, French and English - to open some of history's unmarked doors. Among her most powerful recreations is that of Nora Joyce, in a dramatic monologue that shows us her famous husband in a wholly new light.

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Popping Fuchsias

Popping Fuchsias

by Robin Skelton
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This impressive collection of new poems shows us Skelton stepping out in a new direction. Moving easily between free verse and closed forms (villanelles, sestinas, sonnets, rondeaus, and even arcane Welsh forms), Skelton addresses family, friends and readers everywhere to create a poetry of presence, a communion through language, in the face of a d …

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Worlds in Small

Worlds in Small

edited by John Robert Colombo
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Worlds in Small comprises the world's first collection of minimalist short stories, with a long preface and brief commentaries by the "master gatherer," John Robert Colombo. Each miniature is less than fifty words. Believe it or not, a few have no words at all. Through the magic of minimalism, we watch as something/everything comes of nothing.

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Preludes & Fugues

Preludes & Fugues

by Fred Candelaria
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Fred Candelaria is the poet's poet. His language becomes pure music, taking the reader beyond the empirical world of represented objects into the "phenomenal."

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Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair

by Jancis Andrews
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All the characters in this new collection of short stories are "letting down their hair," allowing us to glimpse the extraordinary pains and passions that simmer beneath the surface of so-called ordinary men and women.

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Learning to Breathe

Learning to Breathe

by Richard Stevenson
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In Learning to Breathe, Richard Stevenson wrestles the male muse; he acknowledges rape, emasculation, torture, and attempts to reconcile the lot of the sons of Cain to the roles of prodigal fathers. Each of the lyrics, serial narratives, and dramatic monologues asks the question: How can our children become fathers to the men we are now?

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Gravity & Light

Gravity & Light

by Margaret Blackwood; Anne M. Kelly & Kerry Slavens
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Poems that are, in turn, meditative, acerbic and raunchy. These three women lighten the gravity of everyday matters with their sympathetic intelligence.

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Daymares

Daymares

Selected Fictions on Dreams and Time
by Robert Zend
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Robert Zend's eleventh book continues his wonderfully surreal explorations of the mind trapped in the paradoxes of time and space. This posthumous edition includes a Foreword by John Robert Colombo and an Afterword by Northrop Frye.

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Devious Dictionary, A

Devious Dictionary, A

by Robin Skelton
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In this collection of witty and trenchant aphorisms, Robin Skelton draws on the cynicism of La Rochefoucauld, the Aufklärung insights of Lichtenberg and the devillish wiles of Ambrose Bierce to provide Canada with its own Devious Dictionary. Once again, Skelton proves himself to be a wizard of language. Illustrated with Ludwig Zeller's art collage …

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Raking Zen Furrows

by Inge Israel
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In her fourth volume of poetry, Inge Israel takes the reader on a journey deep into contemporary Japan. She depicts the conflict between the consumerism of industrial life and the luminosity of age-old ceremonies. In the end, the delicate, lyric qualities of Israel's poems re-establish the patterns of Zen.

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Dog Star

Dog Star

by Harold Enrico
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Harold Enrico's third collection of poetry continues the tone and rhythm of the great European masters while employing the tough, strong imagery of the Pacific Northwest.

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Torpor

Torpor

by J. Michael Yates
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The companion volume to Torque, Torpor is J. Michael Yates' second masterful collection of prose fiction. These compelling, often surreal works reveal a cryptic yet beautiful world in which nothing can be taken for granted.

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Chinese Chamber Music

Chinese Chamber Music

by Fred Candelaria
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Fred Candelaria's sixth collection of poetry, Chinese Chamber Music evokes a world of tradition, art and great ceremony, a world that excites "blinded touch" and that leads readers "to read the unwritten." These poems present the world as music, not as problems to be solved. Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, Candelaria founded and then …

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Abbey

Abbey

Selections 1959-1989
by Lloyd Abbey
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This selected edition contains the strongest and most comprehensive collection of Lloyd Abbey's work to date. Writing frequently about animals and insects, Abbey takes us inside their consciousness, allowing us to see anew the world through their eyes. Author of the best-selling novel The Last Whales, Abbey is emerging as a major talent in Canadian …

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Light Like a Summons

Light Like a Summons

by Mary Choo; Margaret Fridel & Eileen Kernaghan
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"I recommend this book to you. It is a book of poetry whose authorship is plural, but I hesitate to call it an anthology because of certain conventions which the mention of the term causes the reader to expect. This is a book whose mythic spectrum is broad. Very. I took on the project as editor because the body of work presented me by publisher and …

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