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Readers of Colleen Thibaudeau's selected poems, My Granddaughters Are Combing Out Their Long Hair, will feel at home in The Martha Landscapes, where domestic dearness and the exotic, like strangers, "make their first acquaintance….. In a blur of words." The cross-relationships that occur, in a poetry of technical virtuosity that feels as easy as breathing, are sensed to be permanent.
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Set on a college campus in Vermont, Spinning into Butter is a new play by a major young American playwright that explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today in a manner that is at once profound, disturbing, darkly comic, and deeply cathartic. Rebecca Gilman challenges our preconceptions about race relations, writing of a liberal dean of students named Sarah Daniels who investigates the pinning of anonymous, clearly...
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The award-winning poet Karen Solie's striking fifth collection of poetry blends the story of a seventh-century monk with contemporary themes of economic class, environmentalism, and solitude in an ever-connected world
if one asks for a sign
must one accept what's given?
Ethernan, an Irish missionary in the seventh century, retreated to the Caiplie Caves on the eastern coast of Scotland to consider life as a hermit. In The Caiplie Caves, Karen Solie's...
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Falling Backwards Into Mirrorsis a book that merges poetry and memoir. At the same time, it is a collection grounded in the body, naked and spare, wounded and wonderful. Through vivid, sensual images that evoke feeling, the speaker embraces the naked architecture of her own flesh and bones. In moments of give and take, this healing journey echoes the kind of deep explorations once undertaken by Adrienne Rich and Sylvia Plath. After a fall from a boat,...
425) At The Crossroads
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Do you ever...
-lie awake at night with too many thoughts?
-try to understand why things happened as they did?
-attempt to label your habitual behaviours?
-wonder what good might come from an argument on Facebook?
The 24 short playful poems in this collection map out such moments (and more)... then hand them to you for your consideration.
Events that seem benign and ordinary on the surface can sink us into a deeper knowing of ourselves.
We can...
426) As My Heart Speaks
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As my heart speaks,
The words will listen.
Bringing the reader,
On an emotional journey.
Follow along as JA Lafrance,
Author of sassy strong women.
Reaches for your heart,
And plays with its strings.
As my heart speaks, is
A journey of the authors emotions as she puts her heart on display.
427) Dear Birch
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Three years after her mother's death and on the brink of a break up, a bisexual writer sits in the company of an urban birch tree, auditing the odds of new loves entering her future. So begins Dear Birch, an intimate poem cycle that improvises within the permutability of grief, wind, reading, refusal and desire, listening for an ethos of ongoingness. Synthesizing memoir, votive and epistle, Margaret Christakos displays her trademark fidelity to writing...
429) Every Shameless Ray
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The capacity of the rediscovered world to signal and illuminate, restore and repair, fuels the poems in Every Shameless Ray. In Every Shameless Ray, it's more often possible to find one's way when headed somewhere else. Intellectually curious, emotionally acute and playful in form, these poems rely upon the unreliable - the accidents and reversals that expose prescriptive narratives of war and patterns of desire. In poems about a child's misunderstood...
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"One of Library Journal's Best Books in Poetry for 2012" Jessica Greenbaum is the author of the award-winning poetry collection Inventing Difficulty. Her poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the Nation, Poetry, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor of upstreet.
This is the second collection from a Brooklyn poet whose work many readers will know from the New Yorker. Jessica Greenbaum's narrative poems, in which objects...
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Convinced the world at large can't be trusted to prioritize the well-being of adolescent girls in the event of a cataclysmic event (or just in general), a determined troupe of preteen "doomers" commit to preparing for survival in the post-collapse society they anticipate inheriting.
When Maureen, Jo, Sarah, Vic, and Robbie sneak out at night to investigate an ominous hidden lair in the woods, they believe they have stumbled onto proof of what happened...
432) A Skeletal Wand
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In her finest collection of poetry to date, Ruth Roach Pierson marshals her considerable expository powers to explore personhood, paranormal phenomenon, and mortality. A Skeletal Wand reaches out with poems that are both honest and strange, touching on a diverse range of subjects that overlap and disrupt easy interpretation. When Pierson writes "For decades her identity / was derivative / like scent / from a perfume bottle," it is with the belief...
434) Exosquelette
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Exosquelette : Appareil fixé sur le corps pour lui redonner sa mobilité. La poésie est l'exosquelette de Chloé LaDuchesse : « Mes os sont toujours creux, il n'y a rien à faire. Ce qui reste de moi, ce sont ces mots autour desquels je fabrique une maison. »
Extrait
au commencement il y a la jalousie
je veux que mon corps existe
sans sexe dans l'espace
mouvement ample le respect je veux
que l'idée de mon pouvoir
suffise
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435) Slovenly Love
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Longlisted for the 2004 ReLit Awards Slovenly Love is Meira Cook's third book of poetry. A Fine Grammar of Bones and Toward a Catalogue of Falling, both collections of lyrics, are now joined by a fascinating long poem composed of five sequences. "A Year of Birds" sensuously explores erosion of self in the gain of new life in motherhood; "Blue Lines" concerns a woman and her double, the imperishable self she "left" to become the self she is; "Trawling:...
436) Waiting Room
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Chrissie and Jeremy have spent a great deal of time in shock, waiting-for news of their baby daughter's post-operation recovery, for weekly scans to show that her tumour is gone, for robotic forty-five-second updates from Dr. Andre Malloy, their brilliant but arrogant neuro-oncologist. The hospital waiting room has become a second home where they struggle separately as parents and as a couple, where they laugh inappropriately, lose tempers, and find...
437) Prompted Prose
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A volume of poetry, Mostly from prompts, from the mind of a half-mad poet.
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Adele Wiseman, lifelong writing friend of Margaret Laurence, is best known for her novels, The Sacrifice, winner of the Governor-General's Award in 1956, and Crackpot, Winner of the Canadian Booksellers Association Award in 1974. She also wrote essays, plays, and children's books. Her poetry, the work of the last ten years of her life, and mostly unpublished, ranges in form from haiku to sonnets to subversive feminist epic; in content from poems about...
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A vibrant and eclectic collection from a stunningly mature young poet.
"The world-the time has come to say it, though the news will not be welcome to everyone, has no intention of abandoning enchantment altogether." Roberto Calasso's words in Literature and the Gods remind us that, in an age of reason, of mechanization, of alienation, of rote drudgery, we still seek out the transcendent, the marvelous. Ange Mlinko's luminous collection is both a...
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A woman's screams are never silent! Many times, they go unheard or unacknowledged. She then sighs, picks herself up, and continues to move forward.
As women who have, had the narrative told to us of who we ought to be and what we ought to do, in acting out these socially constructed roles, we don't recognize our own sigh-lent screams. Take a look, at a time, when you wanted to scream but didn't. I'm willing to bet, rather than scream (what good would...
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