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{"id":7168143949883,"title":"Halfway Home","handle":"halfway-home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAward-winning author Christina Myers navigates the uncharted territory of midlife in a time of rapid social, cultural, and environmental change.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern midlife is finding oneself halfway home but without any reliable maps for the route ahead. With wit and warmth, these personal essays move from a first bra to first hot flashes to consider the lessons we learn through media and culture––and from each other––about bodies, sexuality, fatphobia, gender roles, and what we should want in life. Christina Myers explores the ways that beauty standards and cultural expectations around femininity have shaped our identities and how we might shed those going forward; the power of friendships and the value of having other women to learn from; the anxiety of moving through motherhood into menopause in a time of global environmental crisis and political upheaval; and the uncertainty of how this stage of life should unfold, as old systems shift and crumble. Though our maps for midlife are never identical, we discover familiar paths and common landmarks in each other’s stories; these essays remind us there are others on this trail with us, just behind or just ahead, out of sight. 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Halfway Home
Award-winning author Christina Myers navigates the uncharted territory of midlife in a time of rapid social, cultural, and environmental change.
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{"id":7095986487355,"title":"Theophylline","handle":"theophylline","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is breath for? What is archive? Why write a poem, instead of... something else?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTheophylline\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of poetry motivated by asthma, seeking poetry’s futurity in a queer and female heritage. Moure crosses a border to engage the poetry of three American modernists—Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, and Angelina Weld Grimké—as a translator might enter work to translate it. But what if that work is already in English?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:right;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI looked for women who had made and were formed by\u003cbr\u003e\nmigrations, and who were in some way marked ‘qustionably’\u003cbr\u003e\nby the socius, and I examined what I could of the forms and \u003cbr\u003e\nshapes of their migrations—\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-02-23T16:50:31-05:00","created_at":"2023-02-23T15:53:36-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["By (author) Moure Erín","By (author) Sampedrín Elisa","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2023-08-08"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41136186261563,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011604","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Theophylline - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":245,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487011604","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":41136228073531,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011611","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Theophylline - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011611","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_32df5261-48ef-46e7-93f3-dbcf3329130b.jpg?v=1725905305"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_32df5261-48ef-46e7-93f3-dbcf3329130b.jpg?v=1725905305","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: Theophylline, a poetic migration by Erín Moure. The cover has a sky blue background. The title on the the top third and the author's name on the bottom third are written in black. The subtitle, a poetic migration, is in yellow text, with a few smaller grey letters included so it can also read \"an a-poretic migration.\" All the text repeats like an echo, with certain letters bleeding off the page and many letters reappearing below the main text.","id":24786199642171,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_32df5261-48ef-46e7-93f3-dbcf3329130b.jpg?v=1725905305"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_32df5261-48ef-46e7-93f3-dbcf3329130b.jpg?v=1725905305","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is breath for? What is archive? Why write a poem, instead of... something else?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTheophylline\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of poetry motivated by asthma, seeking poetry’s futurity in a queer and female heritage. Moure crosses a border to engage the poetry of three American modernists—Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, and Angelina Weld Grimké—as a translator might enter work to translate it. But what if that work is already in English?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:right;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI looked for women who had made and were formed by\u003cbr\u003e\nmigrations, and who were in some way marked ‘qustionably’\u003cbr\u003e\nby the socius, and I examined what I could of the forms and \u003cbr\u003e\nshapes of their migrations—\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Theophylline
Seeking poetry’s futurity in a queer and female heritage, Erín Moure's newest work investigates the qualities and conditions of language and breath.
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Afikomen
Three children at a Passover seder visit ancient Egypt to help baby Moses find his way safely to Pharaoh’s daughter—a wordless time-travel adventure.
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Middlemen
When a killing spree threatens Dundurn, MacNeice risks everything to protect his team and put an end to it.
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ages 3
to 6
/ grades P
to 1
Ancient Thunder
Winner of the Governor General's Award, Ancient Thunder is a spectacular art book for anyone interested in wild horses and First Nations culture.
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ages 6
to 3
/ grades 1
to P
Night Runners
A pack of wolves chases a stag through the woods, but what seems scary proves surprising in this magical wordless picture book by Geraldo Valério.
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Lessons from Mother Earth
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The Joyful Living Colouring Book
A splendid colouring book of original new illustrations with a few choice words of hope that will inspire and delight.
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At the Pond
Geraldo Valério looks at the nature of true friendship and love in a stunning wordless picture book.
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A genre-defying ethereal mystery in which a writer encounters her double and must grapple with an undetermined crime — and her own identity.
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Mirror Lake
A brilliant and original tragicomic thriller about one man’s search for peace and sanctuary amid invasive neighbours and a mysterious death.
