The Blue Hour of the Day
Selected Poems
Written by Lorna Crozier
Format: eBook, 264 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $17.95
Over the course of a career spanning three decades, Lorna Crozier has become one of Canada’s most beloved poets, receiving high acclaim and numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Poetry Award, and the Canadian Authors Association Award. Now, in this definitive selection of poems, which draws on...
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Quick
Written by Anne Simpson
Format: eBook, 120 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $13.50
The human body is a world. How it contains all that it does, how it is altered, and how it is transformed after death are the concerns of
Quick, a new collection of poetry from one of Canada’s most exciting poets. From the shock of a near-fatal car accident to a...
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Special Orders
Poems
Written by Edward Hirsch
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $25.00
In
Special Orders, the renowned poet Edward Hirsch brings us a new series of tightly crafted poems, work that demonstrates a thrilling expansion of his tone and subject matter. It is with a mixture of grief and joy that Hirsch examines what he calls “the minor triumphs, the major failures” of...
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Also available as an
eBook.
The Blue Hour of the Day
Selected Poems
Written by Lorna Crozier
Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $17.95
Over the course of a career spanning three decades, Lorna Crozier has become one of Canada’s most beloved poets, receiving high acclaim and numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Poetry Award, and the Canadian Authors Association Award. Now, in this definitive selection of poems, which draws on...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Quick
Written by Anne Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 120 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $13.50
The human body is a world. How it contains all that it does, how it is altered, and how it is transformed after death are the concerns of
Quick, a new collection of poetry from one of Canada’s most exciting poets. From the shock of a near-fatal car accident to a...
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Also available as an
eBook.
After Nature
Written by W.G. Sebald
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $11.95
After Nature, W. G. Sebald’s first literary work, now translated into English by Michael Hamburger, explores the lives of three men connected by their restless questioning of humankind’s place in the natural world. From the efforts of each, “an order arises, in places beautiful and comforting, though more cruel, too, than...
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Kill-site
Written by Tim Lilburn
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2003
Price: $14.95
By the winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Best Book of the Year
To his virtuoso collection of new poems, Tim Lilburn brings a philosopher’s mind and the eyes and ears of a marsh hawk. This series of earthy meditations makes the strange familiar and the familiar strange. Lilburn’s close study...
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Loop
Written by Anne Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 104 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2003
Price: $14.95
By the author of Light Falls Through You
and the novel Canterbury Beach
In
Loop, Anne Simpson explores the power, and the anguish, of many different modes of return – retrieval, revision, the covering of old ground with eyes wider and thoughts reconditioned by difficult wisdom. These poems occur at that place...
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If Not, Winter
Fragments of Sappho
Written by Sappho
Translated by Anne Carson
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $27.50
A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson.
Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 b.c. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of lyrics Sappho is said...
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Unseen Rain
Quatrains of Rumi
Translated by John Moyne and Coleman Barks
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2001
Price: $14.95
Rumi's short poems have many tones and effects: some of them are quick, joyful, and whimsical; some are finely faceted abstract statements; some probe the inward space of patience and longing. Moyne and Barks translated these poems using a free-verse style, connecting these poems with great American spiritual poets such as...
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