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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. 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","published_at":"2025-11-17T16:41:13-05:00","created_at":"2025-07-21T13:31:10-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult New Releases","Adult Poetry","By (author) Bezanson Graeme","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2026-04-07"],"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":42334341562427,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487014063","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Ultra Blue - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487014063","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":42334341726267,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487014070","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Ultra Blue - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487014070","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_01f52395-74bc-4d10-b4d4-29f298ab6534.jpg?v=1763407541"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_01f52395-74bc-4d10-b4d4-29f298ab6534.jpg?v=1763407541","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: Ultra Blue by Graeme Bezanson. 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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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This is his first full-length collection of poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Bezanson, Graeme (CA)","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. 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","EAN":"9781487014070","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487014070\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"Coming of Age;American Poet;CanLit;American Poetry;Griffin Poetry Prize;New York Times;New Yorker;Spencer Gordon;Cruise Missile Liberals;Canadian Poetry;Pop Culture Poetry;Xanax Cowboy;National Poetry Month","NumberOfPages":"96","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Graeme Bezanson’s lyric energy pulses the truth of uncertainty, with a care for words—revelators of desire’s chthonic energies.” —\u003cstrong\u003eDale Smith, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Size of Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Brilliant and necessary … This is required reading for a better future.” —\u003cstrong\u003eCAConrad, author of \u003cem\u003eListen to the Golden Boomerang Return\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Bezanson traverses a tumultuous inner landscape with extraordinary clarity, distilling the tensions of boyhood, fatherhood, friendship, and other social relations into a constellation of resonant images.” —\u003cstrong\u003eJay Ritchie, author of \u003cem\u003eListening in Many Publics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eROUTINE VIOLENCE: Bezanson's debut full-length collection explores an incredibly timely topic — the malignant and contradictory nature of toxic masculinity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eADVOCATE FOR POETRY: Graeme Bezanson was the co-founder and editor of \u003cem\u003eColdfront\u003c\/em\u003e (2007-2017), as well as the Poetry Editor at \u003cem\u003eLIT Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e (2007-2009). 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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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{"id":6816114638907,"title":"The Quiet","handle":"the-quiet-1","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnne-Marie Turza's formidable debut collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science: microscopic creatures, the pitcher Satchel Paige, toothed whales, a man on the back of a snow bear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems test the lyric affinity between silence, imagination, and the material world. Put another way, in The Quiet, spatial and temporal distances can be measured in degrees of silence. Turza writes, \"Here one can live at any dark system's edge.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet\u003c\/em\u003e is sinister and aerial.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-25T14:25:36-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-25T11:52:14-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Turza Anne-Marie","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2014-04-19"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40213535359035,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770894433","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Quiet - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":163,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770894433","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c120e5a2-c9c0-49d7-83dc-63b5016cf3c3.jpg?v=1666590463"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c120e5a2-c9c0-49d7-83dc-63b5016cf3c3.jpg?v=1666590463","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22834359435323,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c120e5a2-c9c0-49d7-83dc-63b5016cf3c3.jpg?v=1666590463"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c120e5a2-c9c0-49d7-83dc-63b5016cf3c3.jpg?v=1666590463","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eAnne-Marie Turza's formidable debut collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science: microscopic creatures, the pitcher Satchel Paige, toothed whales, a man on the back of a snow bear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems test the lyric affinity between silence, imagination, and the material world. Put another way, in The Quiet, spatial and temporal distances can be measured in degrees of silence. Turza writes, \"Here one can live at any dark system's edge.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet\u003c\/em\u003e is sinister and aerial.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781770893672","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781770894594","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781770893672","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487003814","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY\/Canadian","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eANNE-MARIE TURZA\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet\u003c\/em\u003e (House of Anansi Press) and the chapbook \u003cem\u003eSlip Minute\u003c\/em\u003e (Baseline Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe lives on Vancouver Island.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eANNE-MARIE TURZA\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet\u003c\/em\u003e (House of Anansi Press) and the chapbook \u003cem\u003eSlip Minute\u003c\/em\u003e (Baseline Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe lives on Vancouver Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Turza, Anne-Marie (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003eAnne-Marie Turza's formidable debut collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science: microscopic creatures, the pitcher Satchel Paige, toothed whales, a man on the back of a snow bear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems test the lyric affinity between silence, imagination, and the material world. Put another way, in The Quiet, spatial and temporal distances can be measured in degrees of silence. Turza writes, \"Here one can live at any dark system's edge.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet\u003c\/em\u003e is sinister and aerial.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770894433","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770894433\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"Canadian; Satchel Paige; Poetry; Silence; Imagination; Myth; History; Nature; women writers","NumberOfPages":"96","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“...The Quiet is an evocative, beautifully executed collection that abides like a roaming spirit.” — \u003cstrong\u003eLiz Worth, \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Liz Worth","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Anne-Marie Turza's formidable debut poetry collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2014-04-19","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Anne-Marie Turza's formidable debut poetry collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Quiet
Anne-Marie Turza's formidable debut poetry collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science.
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{"id":6818979020859,"title":"The Address Book","handle":"the-address-book","description":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Award-finalist Steven Heighton employs his signature blend of emotional fierceness and linguistic beauty to tap into \"This whim \/ against what drifts to dark.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress where music and intelligence are the last guard against wind walls of real grief. Elegiac, angry, tender, and brazenly heart-felt, these poems achieve their effect through total conviction; a complete immersion in the rich palette of human emotions — comfortable and otherwise. The collection's second half includes the author's versions from Western poetry's sustaining giants, including Beaudelaire, Rimbaud, Sappho, Catullus, Homer, and Rilke.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T15:33:47-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T14:20:38-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Heighton Steven","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2004-02-23"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40249494700091,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887846984","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The Address Book - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":127,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887846984","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22140950118459,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":608,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805"},"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":608,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Award-finalist Steven Heighton employs his signature blend of emotional fierceness and linguistic beauty to tap into \"This whim \/ against what drifts to dark.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress where music and intelligence are the last guard against wind walls of real grief. Elegiac, angry, tender, and brazenly heart-felt, these poems achieve their effect through total conviction; a complete immersion in the rich palette of human emotions — comfortable and otherwise. The collection's second half includes the author's versions from Western poetry's sustaining giants, including Beaudelaire, Rimbaud, Sappho, Catullus, Homer, and Rilke.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781770893573","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781770891029","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781770892491","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY\/Canadian","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEVEN HEIGHTON\u003c\/strong\u003e (1961-2022)’s most recent books were the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e (Hamish Hamilton, 2017), the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poetry collection \u003cem\u003eThe Waking Comes Late \u003c\/em\u003e(House of Anansi Press, 2016), and the memoir \u003cem\u003eReaching Mithymna\u003c\/em\u003e (Biblioasis, 2020), which was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He was also the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eAfterlands\u003c\/em\u003e, which was published in six countries, was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e Editor’s Choice, and was a “best of year” selection from ten publications in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. The novel was optioned for film by Pall Grimsson. His other poetry collections include \u003cem\u003eThe Ecstasy of Skeptics\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e. His fiction and poetry have been translated into ten languages, have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books, Tin House, Poetry, Brick, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eIndependent, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and The Walrus Magazine, among others; have been internationally anthologized in \u003cem\u003eBest English Stories, Best American Poetry, The Minerva Book of Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBest American Mystery Stories\u003c\/em\u003e; and have won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Gerald Lampert Award, the K. M. Hunter Award, the P. K. Page Founders’ Award, the Petra Kenney Prize, the Air Canada Award, and four gold National Magazine Awards. In addition, Heighton was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Journey Prize, the Moth Prize, and Britain’s W. H. Smith Award. Heighton was also a fiction reviewer for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He lived in Kingston, Ontario. In 2021, Wolfe Island Records released an album of his songs, \u003cem\u003eThe Devil’s Share\u003c\/em\u003e. To listen, visit www.wolfeislandrecords.com\/stevenheighton.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEVEN HEIGHTON\u003c\/strong\u003e (1961-2022)’s most recent books were the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e (Hamish Hamilton, 2017), the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poetry collection \u003cem\u003eThe Waking Comes Late \u003c\/em\u003e(House of Anansi Press, 2016), and the memoir \u003cem\u003eReaching Mithymna\u003c\/em\u003e (Biblioasis, 2020), which was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He was also the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eAfterlands\u003c\/em\u003e, which was published in six countries, was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e Editor’s Choice, and was a “best of year” selection from ten publications in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. The novel was optioned for film by Pall Grimsson. His other poetry collections include \u003cem\u003eThe Ecstasy of Skeptics\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e. His fiction and poetry have been translated into ten languages, have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books, Tin House, Poetry, Brick, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eIndependent, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and The Walrus Magazine, among others; have been internationally anthologized in \u003cem\u003eBest English Stories, Best American Poetry, The Minerva Book of Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBest American Mystery Stories\u003c\/em\u003e; and have won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Gerald Lampert Award, the K. M. Hunter Award, the P. K. Page Founders’ Award, the Petra Kenney Prize, the Air Canada Award, and four gold National Magazine Awards. In addition, Heighton was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Journey Prize, the Moth Prize, and Britain’s W. H. Smith Award. Heighton was also a fiction reviewer for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He lived in Kingston, Ontario. In 2021, Wolfe Island Records released an album of his songs, \u003cem\u003eThe Devil’s Share\u003c\/em\u003e. To listen, visit www.wolfeislandrecords.com\/stevenheighton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Heighton, Steven (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Award-finalist Steven Heighton employs his signature blend of emotional fierceness and linguistic beauty to tap into \"This whim \/ against what drifts to dark.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress where music and intelligence are the last guard against wind walls of real grief. Elegiac, angry, tender, and brazenly heart-felt, these poems achieve their effect through total conviction; a complete immersion in the rich palette of human emotions — comfortable and otherwise. The collection's second half includes the author's versions from Western poetry's sustaining giants, including Beaudelaire, Rimbaud, Sappho, Catullus, Homer, and Rilke.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9780887846984","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9780887846984\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"96","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2004-02-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Address Book
A collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress.
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These challenging poems investigate the relationship between sexuality and eating disorders as well as how the voyeurism of religion (the idea of being eternally watched) intersects with both of those spheres. They also raise questions about body shaming and body sovereignty—a failed sovereignty in this case, as \"sovereignty\" itself is a communal concept. 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Where\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ethe differential diagnosis is confused\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eby decades of self-made violence. Poverty,\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ecolonialism, god, all prisms that will shatter\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eone day, if not now…”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePart self-interrogation, part confession, part hospital diary, the intense, heartbreakingly frank poems in Brandi Bird’s second collection detail the author’s ongoing struggles with eating disorders and depression, conditions that disproportionately afflict Indigenous girls, women, and two-spirited persons. These challenging poems investigate the relationship between sexuality and eating disorders as well as how the voyeurism of religion (the idea of being eternally watched) intersects with both of those spheres. 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":6815266963515,"title":"A Pillow Book","handle":"a-pillow-book","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot a narrative. Not an essay. Not a shopping list. Not a song. Not a diary. Not an etiquette manual. Not a confession. Not a prayer. Not a secret letter sent through the silent Palace hallways before dawn. Making a daybook of oblivion, \u003cem\u003eA Pillow Book\u003c\/em\u003e leads the reader on a darkly comic tour through the dim-lit valley of fitful sleep. The miscellaneous memoranda, minutiae, dreamscapes, and lists that comprise this book-length poem disclose a prismatic meditation on the price of privilege; the petty grievances of marriage, motherhood, art, and office politics; the indignities of age; and the putative properties of dreams, among other themes, set in the dead of winter in a Midwestern townhouse on the eve of the end of geohistory. Feather-light in its touch, quixotic in its turns, and resolutely deadpan in its delivery, \u003cem\u003eA Pillow Book\u003c\/em\u003e offers a twenty-first-century response to a thousand-year-old Japanese genre which resists, while slyly absorbing, all attempts to define it.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:50-05:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T09:48:47-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Buffam Suzanne","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2016-04-09"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40209203232827,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000264","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Pillow Book - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487000264","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_03f008fa-9b12-46c3-9c89-9d5d426c3c19.jpg?v=1678601503"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_03f008fa-9b12-46c3-9c89-9d5d426c3c19.jpg?v=1678601503","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324561571899,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.735,"height":2400,"width":1763,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_03f008fa-9b12-46c3-9c89-9d5d426c3c19.jpg?v=1678601503"},"aspect_ratio":0.735,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_03f008fa-9b12-46c3-9c89-9d5d426c3c19.jpg?v=1678601503","width":1763}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eNot a narrative. Not an essay. Not a shopping list. Not a song. Not a diary. Not an etiquette manual. Not a confession. Not a prayer. Not a secret letter sent through the silent Palace hallways before dawn. Making a daybook of oblivion, \u003cem\u003eA Pillow Book\u003c\/em\u003e leads the reader on a darkly comic tour through the dim-lit valley of fitful sleep. The miscellaneous memoranda, minutiae, dreamscapes, and lists that comprise this book-length poem disclose a prismatic meditation on the price of privilege; the petty grievances of marriage, motherhood, art, and office politics; the indignities of age; and the putative properties of dreams, among other themes, set in the dead of winter in a Midwestern townhouse on the eve of the end of geohistory. Feather-light in its touch, quixotic in its turns, and resolutely deadpan in its delivery, \u003cem\u003eA Pillow Book\u003c\/em\u003e offers a twenty-first-century response to a thousand-year-old Japanese genre which resists, while slyly absorbing, all attempts to define it.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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A Pillow Book offers a modern response to a thousand-year-old Japanese genre which resists, while slyly absorbing, all attempts to define it.
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[Vermette] chooses her words with a poet’s precision.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"First Nations Voice","OtherText_Review_13":"\u003cp\u003e“One of the great Indigenous novels.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst Nations Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Margaret Atwood","OtherText_Review_14":"\u003cp\u003e“It’s a timely novel that will keep you turning the pages and make you think well after you’ve turned the final one.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNiagara This Week\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_15":"\u003cp\u003e“It’s a timely novel that will keep you turning the pages and make you think well after you’ve turned the final one.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNiagara This Week\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Niagara This Week","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Lee Maracle, author of Celia’s Song","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“A visionary debut novel.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCBC Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Katherena Vermette’s debut novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e, takes a tough, close-up look at an extended family in Winnipeg, tackling along the way a side of female life that’s often hard to acknowledge: the violence of girls and women sometimes display towards other girls and women, and the power struggles among them. 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In so doing she holds the reader’s tender love in her capable hands and weaves us right into the story. \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e is unforgettable.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLee Maracle, author of Celia’s Song\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"The Winnipeg Review","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“The lives of the girls and women in The Break are not easy, but their voices — complex, urgent, and unsparing — lay bare what it means to survive, not only once, but multiple times, against the forces of private and national histories. Katherena Vermette is a tremendously gifted writer, a dazzling talent.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMadeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“Fiction is capable of helping us to comprehend difference and otherness, and The Break offers clear insight ino people struggling to secure a place in the world.” — \u003cstrong\u003eCandace Fertile, \u003cem\u003eQuill and Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"The National Post","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“Katherena Vermette’s poignant novel, set in Winnipeg’s North End, opens with a violent crime that becomes the backdrop for a story of great depth and compassion. This masterfully written narrative shifts among the intergenerational voices of the women of one extended Indigenous family. The Break is a powerful, persuasive novel about the strength and love that bind these women to each other and to the men in their lives. The traditions and wisdom of a community are honoured, as is the exquisite individual humanity of each character. Although this is a novel of social importance, it transcends politics, taking the reader on a journey to the heart of what it means for one person to care about another, survive trauma, and endure.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e2016 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Jury Lauren B. 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The Break
A stunning debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.
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Once in a Blue Moon
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Night Street Repairs
An astonishing work by a master of the poetic form operating at the height of his powers.
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Mandaderos de la lluvia / Messengers of Rain
This bilingual (Spanish and English) Latin American poetry anthology is perfect for young readers who want to engage with a fascinating mix of established and new poets, as well as enhance their language skills.
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{"id":6582723641403,"title":"Box Kite","handle":"box-kite","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A piece of paper with writing on it is flat, but when what is written on that paper fills the mind of a reader, it takes off into the wind like a box kite on a windy day,\" writes Baziju — the shared voice of poets Roo Borson and Kim Maltman. This exquisite, collaboratively written sequence of prose poems, unfolding through rich, delicate imagery, journeys through streets and gardens, houses and temples, cities and countryside, Canada and China. It is a meditation on the way we travel between places and between times, and how words and ideas travel between languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaziju explores the literature of China, from centuries past to the present, exploring, at the same time, the meaning of hope and of home: childhood homes, the homes we grow into, and the homes in our minds. In Lu Xun's classic story \"My Old Home,\" the hero returns from a distant city to the home he left two decades earlier. Hope, he ponders, \"is just like the roads of the earth… . [T]o begin with the earth has no roads, but where many people pass, there a road is made.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese sensual, deeply personal prose poems ponder change, loss, friendship, and belonging. 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Box Kite
Prose poems that are a meditation on the way we travel between places and between times, and how words and ideas travel between languages.
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The Irrationalist
In her remarkable second collection, poet Suzanne Buffam sketches an ideal world as yet unrealized.
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Crying Dress
Crying Dress explores the intersections between noise and coherence, the conversational and the associative, the architectural and the ecological.
