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Photograph of an abandoned two-storey house sitting on a vacant lot. The ground floor windows are covered by boards, which have been spraypainted with graffiti, while the upper floor windows have been smashed out. The title and author’s name appear in large, black letters inside a white frame around the photograph. 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These are young anarchists, starving artists, and flawed idealists burnt out on trying to change—or even just survive—a system designed to keep them down. At its heart, though, is a story of romance and heartbreak, and all of the cuts and scrapes from youth that leave scars that last forever.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Adam Feibel, co-author of \u003cem\u003eIn Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_11":"\u003cp\u003e“If you spent your youth in the late 1990s\/early 2000s going to protests, making zines, DIY art or punk rock — or, failing that, reading about it all in \u003cem\u003eAdbusters\u003c\/em\u003e magazine — and consider yourself a hopeless romantic, this novel is for you.” —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Jeff Miller’s debut novel is like a plainspoken, punk-rock hymn, singing praise and gratitude to the lovers, fighters, artists, and burnouts whose bands, art projects, friendships, and political movements were torn to pieces—but endured somehow, all the same. This is a book that will pick you up off the floor of a mosh-pit and wrap you in its arms.” —\u003cstrong\u003eSean Michaels, Giller Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e–\u003cstrong\u003ewinning author of \u003cem\u003eUs Conductors\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDo You Remember Being Born? \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Jeff Miller writes with intensity and grace about those pitched moments in our lives when everything is changing before we quite know it. \u003cem\u003eTemporary Palaces \u003c\/em\u003eis a gritty, moving debut about young people finding and losing themselves—in music, in politics, in love—and realizing that since, as the saying goes, the struggle never ends, the moments of connection, joy, and integrity along the way really matter.” —\u003cstrong\u003eSam Lipsyte, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Ask \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eNo One Left to Come Looking for You\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“A love letter to the ones who got away, and the ones who never let go, \u003cem\u003eTemporary Palaces\u003c\/em\u003e is punk enough to be tender about the way scenes form people and place. Jeff Miller has written a wise, elegiac novel about the interstices of subculture, and how memory and time comes for us all.” —\u003cstrong\u003eMichelle Min Sterling, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eCamp Zero\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Jeff Miller is a beautiful storyteller who masterfully weaves threads of the past into the delicate fabric of the present. The walls of punk houses long torn down come alive again in \u003cem\u003eTemporary Palaces\u003c\/em\u003e, an impassioned elegy to the reckless passion of youth and its lingering impact on wounds still healing in the present. The world that Miller has created here feels broken in and well worn, its backdrops a vividly realized collection of derelict living spaces, back roads, and side streets, and the unforeseeable futures waiting for hardened and delicate hearts. A beautifully told story about the formative power of people and places, even and especially those that are flawed and crumbling into the dirt below.” —\u003cstrong\u003eNiko Stratis, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eTemporary Palaces\u003c\/em\u003e is a fierce and tender portrait of young people chasing their dreams. Years pass, lives change, the dreams get tattered and remade along the way—but Jeff Miller's fine writing testifies to the ties that remain. 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Temporary Palaces
For readers of Jennifer Egan and Heather O’Neill comes a blazing debut novel set in the DIY music and arts scene of the early 2000s
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The text is white over a back backgound, with \"poems\" appearing in red. In the center, an illustration in red shows a hand reaching up from the ocean, through waves that also look like hands. At the bottom, a blurb reads, \"Far from a whimper, Pitiful is a vital battle cry and a song.\" —Marya Hornbacher","id":25799184252987,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e5e17a6e-1c87-49d8-84d7-9916e0f36b02.jpg?v=1758896868"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e5e17a6e-1c87-49d8-84d7-9916e0f36b02.jpg?v=1758896868","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e“This poem begins where Bulimia ends\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eor maybe, just maybe, when it started. 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They also raise questions about body shaming and body sovereignty—a failed sovereignty in this case, as \"sovereignty\" itself is a communal concept. In the tradition of poets like Amy Berkowitz (\u003cem\u003eTender Points\u003c\/em\u003e) and Hannah Green (\u003cem\u003eXanax Cowboy\u003c\/em\u003e), the poems in \u003cem\u003ePitiful\u003c\/em\u003e also lay bare the way patriarchy, medical sexism, and bigotry have not only sabotaged the treatment of such conditions but often make them worse.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Pitiful
Part self-interrogation, part hospital diary, these heartbreakingly frank poems detail the author’s struggles with eating disorders and depression.
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{"id":7425234206779,"title":"Ultra Blue","handle":"ultra-blue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGraeme Bezanson’s debut collection, \u003cem\u003eUltra Blue\u003c\/em\u003e, is a book-length sequence of poems about the emotional lives of boys and the challenges of growing up within contemporary constructions of masculinity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The truth no one wants to name,” writes bell hooks, “is that all boys are being raised to be killers even if they learn to hide the killer within.” These intense, insistently strange poems developed from Bezanson's struggles with guiding his young son through a culture of toxic masculinity and violence. This is work in dialogue with existing texts of boyhood and masculinity, in particular Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s \u003cem\u003eEmile\u003c\/em\u003e. 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This is work in dialogue with existing texts of boyhood and masculinity, in particular Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s \u003cem\u003eEmile\u003c\/em\u003e. The book’s three main sections make up a kind of fractured reader’s diary, broken up by two interludes of “divinations” – sparser erasure poems made using the changing positions of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites to pick words from the transcript of an interview between self-proclaimed proponents of toxic masculinity Tucker Carlson and Andrew Tate. By processing existing texts and recasting them into a present, personal moment, \u003cem\u003eUltra Blue\u003c\/em\u003e navigates the joy, despair, vivid arcana, and routine violence of boyhood under Western patriarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Ultra Blue
Ultra Blue is a sequence of poems about the emotional lives of boys and the challenges of growing up within contemporary masculinity.
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The Wren
In The Wren, A.F. Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts.
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Inheritance
A Korean Canadian woman returns to the prairies, where she revisits her childhood and confronts a haunting guilt.
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Sharing the Light
Uplifting stories, vignettes, and reflections to inspire gratitude, love, joy, and hope in navigating life in a changing, challenging world.
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Definitely Thriving
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Together by the Sea
In the tenth and final instalment of the legendary Soifs cycle, Marie-Claire Blais invites all the agonies and joys of humanity to a party by the sea.
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Seven Heavens Away
A Palestinian teenager finds his footing amid escalating violence across Jerusalem in this taut debut novel.
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A Love Affair with the Unknown
A refreshing look at the inevitability of uncertainty—and at all the possibility it holds.
