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Series: The Heretic Paperback John Murphy 9780889225954 $16.95 DRAMA Jan 09, 2008

The Heretic began with a rhetorical question the author posed to himself for a comedy show: ?If there is a God, why would He create us? If He’s perfect, all knowing, there’s nothing he can gain from us. He must have been so incredibly bored and lonely, that He created us for his own entertainment.”Not exactly a new idea, it works well as the basis of a stand-up act, but it relies on the assumption that humanity was made not only in God’s physical image, but that we are all also cookie-cutter replicas of God’s psychological profile. That’s where... + Read More
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Series: A Slight Case of Fatigue Paperback Stéphane Bourguignon 9780889225961 $19.95 FICTION Jan 10, 2008

At age 41, Eddy is in existential extremis. He once had an enviable life?a wife he adored, a young son, a cozy suburban house surrounded by carefully planted and sculpted gardens, the luxury to pursue his passion and become a professional horticulturalist. Now he’s separated from his wife, estranged from his son, he’s let his garden grow wild?like the rest of his life, it’s totally out of control. When his son, Maxime, tired of being embarrassed by his father’s dilapidated house, his garden gone to seed and his old beater of a car, decides to l... + Read More
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Series: Fearless Warriors Second Edition Paperback Drew Hayden Taylor 9780889225978 $19.95 FICTION Jun 08, 2009

Internationally acclaimed as a playwright, screen-writer, comic and sardonic commentator on the endless gaffs, absurdities and the profound and painful misunderstandings that continue to characterize social interactions between aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples, Taylor’s stories in Fearless Warriors are a full frontal assault on stereotypes of all kinds and an edifying affirmation of humanity unlike anything else in fiction.Each of these stories is as remarkably different in terms of its unique narrative tone, origin and direction, as are t... + Read More
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Series: Love and Savagery Second Edition Paperback Des Walsh 9780889225992 $16.95 POETRY May 21, 2009

This book of poems is a sustained adoration of the beloved which recalls the work of Dante?what the Vita Nuova might have been had Dante lived on the bare watered rock of Newfoundland, rather than in the ermine-cloaked decadence of Florence. The unnamed Irish woman of this collection, ?the complicated jewel of the Burin Peninsula,” leads the narrator through the streets of St. John’s and the seemingly impenetrable evergreen thickets of Ireland on a spiritual odyssey of love and savagery. Unlike its model however, this book also occasionally pro... + Read More
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Series: Pell Mell Paperback Robin Blaser 9780889226012 $17.95 POETRY Jun 06, 2009

Pell Mell, the middle voice, the syntax meeting its astonishments in its forward stride looking backwards, imagining an image nation where the heart is always torn?to pieces possessed by the other(s). A book so sure of itself that Blaser can begin, after the act of said-and-done, a series called Great Companions. Lesser poets might, and have, called them ?masters.” But only because they lack Robin Blaser’s insistence on the audacious ever-present. A scatter of pearls for Aphrodite, and a lovely place to enter Blaser’s life work, The Holy Forest... + Read More
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Series: Amuse Bouche Paperback Adeena Karasick 9780889226043 $19.95 POETRY May 21, 2009

Adeena Karasick’s startling and arresting work constantly de-contextualizes and re-contextualizes language: its signs, signifiers, images, ideograms, pictograms, lexicography and syntax. In doing so, it leads us into the subliminal, where it foregrounds memories, associations, archetypes, metaphors and other elements of the subconscious usually well and deeply suppressed in the communications we construct to repress as much as we reveal in our conversations of the everyday. This constant rupture of desire, of language struggling against its bon... + Read More
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Series: gifts Paperback rob mclennan 9780889226050 $18.95 POETRY Jun 01, 2009

The eponymous first part of mclennan’s new book consists of fifty ?gifts” each centred around words, phrases, or ?glyphs” of language that initiate and replicate their own fractal transformations: some remain simply found fragments about which other words and phrases unfold, some lose themselves into pieces that we forget were once found, some mirror themselves in other forms, others become simply something other in language as it moves both with and away from them, each creating a syntax of meaning that is specific to its own occasion. All are... + Read More
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Series: griddle talk a yeer uv bill n carol dewing brunch Paperback Carol Malyon 9780889226067 $18.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 01, 2009

For 52 weeks, bill bissett and Carol Malyon met for brunch and conversation at the Golden Griddle in Toronto.This sustained conversational encounter between Carol Malyon, who writes within the objective bounds of standard English usage, and bill bissett, one of contemporary writing’s most exotic practitioners, working with the visual forms of language in his own non-hierarchic, phonetic orthography, produces, as if by accident, invariably astonishing social, moral and ethical critical insights. Each of these writers’ particular uses of language... + Read More
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Series: Death in Vancouver Paperback Garry Thomas Morse 9780889226074 $19.95 FICTION Jun 01, 2009

Garry Thomas Morse deploys his prodigious classical repertoire to compose the edgy new voices that reflect the cultural simultaneity of our everyday?a transnational, ahistoric cosmopolitanism: an idealized Helen is confounded by Molly Bloom’s monologue from Joyce’s Ulysses; a Dostoyevskian character parodies the libidinal excesses of William Burroughs with ?the stone that drives men mad” from Pauline Johnson’s Tales of Stanley Park; an incident from The Book of Judges answers one of Gogol’s riddles; an acidic response to the recent fascination ... + Read More
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Series: Where the Blood Mixes Paperback Kevin Loring 9780889226081 $16.95 DRAMA May 21, 2009

Where the Blood Mixes is meant to expose the shadows below the surface of the author’s First Nations heritage, and to celebrate its survivors. Though torn down years ago, the memories of their Residential School still live deep inside the hearts of those who spent their childhoods there. For some, like Floyd, the legacy of that trauma has been passed down through families for generations. But what is the greater story, what lies untold beneath Floyd’s alcoholism, under the pain and isolation of the play’s main character? Loring’s title was insp... + Read More
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Series: A Carpenter's Trilogy, A Chronicle in Three Plays The Carpenter Paperback Vittorio Rossi 9780889226098 $17.95 DRAMA May 21, 2009

In 1956, Silvio Rosato, a decorated World War II veteran, shows up at the house of his bigamist father, Eduardo Rosato, who had abandoned him and his mother in Italy in 1920, starting a second life and family for himself in Chicago. Handsome, assured and accomplished, there is something sinister about the young Silvio, with his air of familiarity and the distant, impenetrable look in his eyes. This mystery begins Hellfire Pass, part one of Rossi’s autobiographical A Carpenter’s Trilogy: A Chronicle in Three Plays.At first glance a classic tale ... + Read More
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Series: Legoland Paperback Jacob Richmond 9780889226104 $16.95 DRAMA May 21, 2009

Penny and Ezra Lamb are home-schooled by their parents on a hippie colony near Uranium City until the police discover it also happens to be the largest marijuana grow-op in Saskatchewan. ?Legoland” is how their pot-smoking elders always described the outside world, and the Lamb siblings are dying to get there.Once the commune is busted and their parents are sent to prison, sixteen-year-old Penny and her younger brother Ezra, each seething cauldrons of repression, are enrolled in a Catholic private school, where they are instant social outcasts.... + Read More
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Series: Diplomacy Paperback Tim Carlson 9780889226111 $16.95 DRAMA May 21, 2009

Sharing a title with Henry Kissinger’s infamous book, Tim Carlson’s play Diplomacy is a graphic, conflict-fuelled drama with moments of heartbreak and dark humour?a reflection on the international themes that have come to define our contemporary world. Nominally about Canada and America’s active military involvement in the Middle East’s many theatres of war, it scrutinizes the part the media plays in manufacturing our private reactions to foreign policy?how the new phenomenon of ?embedded journalism” has become complicit in making everything pe... + Read More
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Series: Annihilated Time Poetry and Other Politics Paperback Jeff Derksen 9780889226128 $29.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Jan 05, 2009

Reading against the grain of global ideological flows, Derksen demonstrates how borders, identities, national literatures, urban territories, built space and the spaces of culture and politics have not simply been eroded by globalization, but how the traditional identity-determined scales of culture are being re-imagined as contested spaces for dynamic communities of discourse.Apologists for the current global American imperialism ironically characterize it as a civilizing force generously brought to the world by a presumed American exceptional... + Read More
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Series: An English Canadian Poetics Vol. 1 The Confederation Poets Paperback Robert Hogg 9780889226135 $29.95 POETRY May 19, 2009

This collection of 37 essays by Canada’s Confederation Poets is the first in a series of volumes intended to collect all the significant essays on poetic theory written in English by Canadian poets from the late nineteenth century to the first decades of the twenty-first. These essays follow a long tradition among poets of the West to articulate in prose what their poetry is about, why they write in a particular form, how they regard language, and whom they consider mentors, equals or inferiors in the practice of their craft. Above all, the ess... + Read More
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Series: Vancouver Anthology Second Edition Hardcover Stan Douglas 9780889226142 $35.00 ART Jan 03, 2009

First published in 1991, this larger format, new edition coincides with a renewal of the Or Gallery’s mandate to incite and promote critical discourse both within and outside of the Vancouver art community.
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Series: Down the Road to Eternity New & Selected Fiction Paperback M.A.C. Farrant 9780889226159 $19.95 FICTION Jul 24, 2009

Down the Road to Eternity: New & Selected Fiction is a collection of M.A.C. Farrant’s work dating from 1985 to 2009. Compiled of selected fiction from Sick Pigeon (1991), Raw Material (1993), Altered Statements (1995), Word of Mouth (1996), What’s True, Darling (1997), Darwin Alone in the Universe (2003) and The Breakdown So Far (2007), it includes her complete new suite of 18 stories, The North Pole, where our individual existence is bludgeoned by the threat of ?end times”?climate change, species extinction, pandemics and really bad politics. ... + Read More
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Series: The Gull Paperback Daphne Marlatt 9780889226166 $17.95 DRAMA Dec 01, 2009

Winner of the prestigious 2008 Uchimura Naoya Prize, The Gull is the first Canadian play staged in the ancient, ritualized tradition of Japanese Noh. Produced by Vancouver’s Pangaea Arts, and written by award-winning poet and novelist Daphne Marlatt, the play is set in 1950: wartime restrictions on interned Japanese Canadians have finally been lifted, allowing them to return to the coast. It is a dramatization of the historical link between the fishing town of Steveston, home to many of these first, second and third generation Japanese Canadian... + Read More
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Series: EX MACHINA Creating for the Stage Paperback Patrick Caux 9780889226173 $29.95 PERFORMING ARTS Sep 15, 2009

In 1993 when Robert Lepage suggested to his colleagues that a specific identity and image be found for his next working group, he imposed one condition. The word ?theatre” was not to be part of the name of the new company. This gorgeous full-colour book documents the results of that landmark decision: the dynamic creative arts company Ex Machina, constantly on the move in search of new forms of storytelling?from Lepage’s own Dragon’s Trilogy, through Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen for the Metropolitan Opera of New York, to Peter Gabri... + Read More
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Series: Strange Comfort Essays on the Work of Malcolm Lowry Paperback Sherrill Grace 9780889226180 $19.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Dec 01, 2009

Strange Comfort collects the best of Sherrill Grace’s many published essays on the novelist and writer Malcolm Lowry, along with new pieces that incorporate her contemporary approach to his work. There are essays on Under the Volcano, on some of the stories in Hear us O Lord from heaven thy dwelling place, and on Lowry’s most important themes: endless voyaging, the creative role and identity of the artist, the nightmare of history, the pressures of memory and the urgent need to protect the garden of our world. A visionary, Lowry prophetically a... + Read More
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Series: The Notebook Series The Blue Notebook Paperback Michel Tremblay 9780889226197 $24.95 FICTION Dec 01, 2009

When Fine Dumas’s notorious transvestite Boudoir is shut down after Expo 67, Céline is condemned to go back to working as a waitress at Le Sélect, attending to the frustrated appetites and exquisite pathos of its exotic clientele. Then a newcomer appears, the gorgeous Gilbert Forget, a musician who is not insensitive to her charms. Céline, a midget who has always thought she was unworthy, never having imagined the possibility of a mature loving and sexual relationship in her life, throws herself into a passionate affair with Gilbert, discoverin... + Read More
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Series: is a door Paperback Fred Wah 9780889226203 $17.95 POETRY Jul 24, 2009

Including poetry projects, a chapbook and incidental poems previously published in magazines and by small presses, is a door makes use of the poem’s ability for ?suddenness” to subvert closure: the sudden question, the sudden turn, the sudden opening?writing that is generated from linguistic mindfulness, improvisation, compositional problem-solving, collaborative events, travel, investigation and documentary?in short, poetry as practice.Part one, ?Isadora Blue,” is grounded in the author’s encounter with the smashed and broken doors along the h... + Read More
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Series: Circumstances Alter Photographs Captain James Peters' Reports from the War of 1885 Hardcover Michael Barnholden 9780889226210 $35.00 PHOTOGRAPHY Nov 16, 2009

On Friday, April 24, 1885, Captain James Peters took the world’s first battlefield photographs under fire at the battle of Fish Creek in the Canadian Northwest Territory of Saskatchewan. As Captain of the Royal Canadian Artillery’s ?A” Battery?part of the North West Field Force?he subsequently managed to expose over seventy glass plates for the duration of the battles at Duck Lake and Batoche as well, many of them again during combat with the enemy, both on the ground and on horseback. In addition to his photographic documentation of the ?North... + Read More
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Series: Another Home Invasion Paperback Joan MacLeod 9780889226227 $16.95 DRAMA Jul 24, 2009

We, each of us in the civilized Western world, live in a space inviolate. ?Our home is our castle,” as the saying goes: our shelter from the intrusion of the weather and other ?outside influences;” our defence against physical and mental threats, real and imagined, to our private space; vault to our accumulated private property; theatre of our desires and aspirations; arena of our private victories and defeats, no matter how large or small; harbour of our secrets and fears; refuge to our children and family.Yet the very protection and security ... + Read More
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Series: Ludwig & Mae Paperback Louis Patrick Leroux 9780889226234 $19.95 DRAMA Aug 31, 2009

La Litière (1994), Rappel (1995) and Ressusciter (1996), published together here in English translation as Embedded, Apocalypse, and Resurrection respectively, make up a trilogy of plays featuring Gen-Xers Ludwig and Mae. Ludwig, trained as an engineer, hasn’t been able to find work since graduating some time ago. The fact that he is sardonic, philosophically inclined and suicidal hasn’t helped in this regard. Mae, on the other hand, is an actress who has never been out of work. Caught in a perverse relationship, she plays into Ludwig’s constan... + Read More
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Series: Still Laughing Three Adaptations by Morris Panych Paperback Morris Panych 9780889226241 $29.95 DRAMA Jan 31, 2010

The universal mark of good satire is still to make audiences laugh at the worst traits in human nature. Here, in his own words, is how Morris Panych updated these three great comedy classics from a century ago: The Government Inspector is peopled with the most duplicitous, under-handed and shifty characters ever to appear in literature; yet, they are funny. ?I made the lead character Khlestakov and his companion Osip former members of an acting troupe, to open up the fourth wall of the theatre. Inspired by Gogol himself, who has the characters ... + Read More
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Series: Gabriel Dumont Speaks Second Edition Paperback Gabriel Dumont 9780889226258 $16.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 31, 2009

In 1903, eighteen years after leading the Métis Army against the Northwest Expeditionary Force and the Northwest Mounted Police at Fish Creek, Duck Lake and Batoche, Louis Riel’s Adjutant General Gabriel Dumont dictated his memoirs to a group of friends, one of whom is thought to have written Dumont’s stories out in longhand during that epic meeting. This manuscript languished unseen and unpublished in the Manitoba Provincial Archives as part of L’Union nationale métisse de Saint-Joseph collection until its discovery there by Michael Barnholden... + Read More
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Series: Noise from the Laundry Second Edition Paperback Weyman Chan 9780889226265 $17.95 POETRY Jun 10, 2009

Weyman Chan’s second poetry collection elaborates his singular and solitary work on the renaissance of the contemporary lyric form. Unmistakably present in these poems are the sensibilities of Li Po, wherein the powers of nature illuminating a meticulously built landscape articulate a poignant, harmonious but fleeting epiphany; Keats’ vision of beauty as an act of passion inscribed on a work of art for all time; and Ovid’s understanding that our engagement with the world always demands of us a metamorphosis, the inescapably wondrous child of a ... + Read More
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Series: Albertine in Five Times Second Edition Paperback Michel Tremblay 9780889226272 $16.95 DRAMA May 19, 2009

Michel Tremblay’s well-loved and award-winning play presents the story of one woman, Albertine, at five different times in her life. The older Albertines warn the younger ones of what is to come??Our fate depends on you,” Albertine at 70 says to Albertine at 30. Together, these five Albertines provide a moving portrait of the extraordinary life of an ?ordinary” woman.This new, updated translation by Linda Gaboriau, commissioned for the prestigious Shaw Festival, celebrates the 25 years this classic Canadian drama has intrigued and delighted aud... + Read More
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Series: The Trespassers Paperback Morris Panych 9780889226289 $16.95 DRAMA Feb 22, 2010

The Trespassers unfolds over the course of a few weeks in a town in the middle of nowhere?not small enough to be a quaint place or large enough to be in any way an interesting one. They once had a sawmill here, which was a going concern before it was shut down in a labour dispute, and it now crowns a sort of half-town, gutted of its reason for being.Fifteen-year-old Lowell is no average teenager?and his grandfather, Hardy, is no conventional role model. Whether urging the boy to pilfer peaches from an abandoned orchard, arranging for his sexual... + Read More
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Series: How to Write Paperback derek beaulieu beaulieu 9780889226296 $16.95 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Apr 15, 2010

How to Write is a perverse Coles Notes: a paradigm of prosody where writing as sampling, borrowing, cutting-and-pasting and mash-up meets literature. This collection of conceptual short ?ction takes inspiration from Lautréamont’s decree that ?plagiarism is necessary. It is implied in the idea of progress. It clasps the author’s sentence tight, uses his expressions, eliminates a false idea, replaces it with the right idea.”Already early in the twentieth century, the modernist Ezra Pound asserted that poets should ?make it new,” and of course by ... + Read More
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Series: After Jack Paperback Garry Thomas Morse 9780889226302 $19.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2010

Jack Spicer, the barroom soothsayer of the ?Berkeley Renaissance,” forged a new kind of poetry with Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser in the decade 1945?1955, grounded in their ?queer genealogy” of Arthur Rimbaud, Federico García Lorca and other gay writers. Beginning his famous serial poem, After Lorca, in 1956, Spicer described it to Robin Blaser a year later:I enclose my eight latest ?translations.” Transformations might be a better word. Several are originals and most of the rest change the poem vitally. I can’t seem to make anybody understand... + Read More
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Series: Decompositions Paperback Ken Belford 9780889226319 $16.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2010

If language is an index of belonging, then Decompositions is the writing of an exile, a tribe of one.For much of his life, Ken Belford has lived in the north, in the pristine region of the headwaters of the Nass River. His careful (de)compositions disclose the land as a complex living organism, articulate the names of it, see the whole of it. Yet the landscape of these poems is not a matter of latitude and longitude, but that unroaded place which begins at the edge of the rancher’s ?eld, wherever that boundary is, and looks back at ?civilizatio... + Read More
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Series: On the Material Paperback Stephen Collis 9780889226326 $17.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2010

Structured in three parts, On the Material is a meditation on language, geography, socio-economics and the body, moving from the glut of fossil-fuelled consumer excess to the materiality of a single book.Composed almost entirely of quatrains (each page being comprised of four four-line stanzas) and written while travelling through North America in 2008, ?4 × 4” navigates issues of space and movement in the global age. As economies crumble, ecosystems fail and peak oil approaches, Collis records the production of a disarticulation of social disc... + Read More
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Series: Asian Skies Paperback Ken Norris 9780889226333 $17.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2010

Asian Skies is the final book of Ken Norris’s travel trilogy. With Dante as his guide, he has previously left behind the predominantly European terrain of the first book, Limbo Road, only to find himself in the terra incognita of the new world of the second, Dominican Moon.Now guideless, Norris continues his search for the metaphorical shortcut, the ?inside passage” of the age of discovery; the easy transcendence of ?a passage to India” from the post-industrial world, and sets out for that most foreign of shores to the Western mind: Asia?a worl... + Read More
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Series: My Darling Nellie Grey Paperback George Bowering 9780889226340 $39.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2010

In December 2005, stalled on a novel he was writing, George Bowering thought he needed a challenge. By the end of the year he had made a New Year’s resolution: write a poem a day for the 365 days of 2006. While working on Crows in the Wind, in January, he decided each monthly sequence should have a rule: something for the writing to attend to. So for February, each day’s piece had to have one sentence and two stanzas, then off he went; inventing ten further formal monthly compositional frames. As it happened, 2006 became fraught with personal c... + Read More
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Series: Imperial Canada Inc. Legal Haven of Choice for the World's Mining Industries Paperback Alain Deneault 9780889226357 $29.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Nov 15, 2010

Imperial Canada Inc. sets out to ask a simple question: why is Canada home to more than 70% of the world’s mining companies?Created by the British North America Act of 1867, Canada, rather than turning away from its colonial past, actively embraced, appropriated, and perpetuated the imperial ambitions of its mother country. Two years later, it took possession of Rupert’s Land—all of the land draining into Hudson Bay—and the North West Territories from the Hudson’s Bay Company, 3 million square miles of resources, and set about its nation-buildi... + Read More
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Series: Bardy Google Paperback Frank Davey 9780889226364 $16.95 POETRY Mar 05, 2010

For thousands of years, formal compositional rules of rhyme, metre and rhetorical devices have shaped the language of poetry, creating ?meaning” through the interplay between these culturally determined aesthetic prerequisites imposed on its syntax, and the ?other” intelligence of the poet pushing against these constraints. Bardy Google reinvents these formal boundaries within the frame of our wired world.With only one hidden exception, each of the texts in this book was constructed through Frank Davey’s use of speci?cally devised Internet sear... + Read More
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Series: Hypoderm Notes to Myself Paperback Weyman Chan 9780889226371 $16.95 POETRY Jan 01, 2010

The idea for this book, says Weyman Chan, is simple—approach the world as metaphor, and it will come to you. Subtitled “notes to myself,” Hypoderm is a manifesto of observations, intimations and recognitions of mortality that get under the poet’s skin—that remind the reader that poetry is documentation and speculation, not a sentimental fabrication of the rapture (rupture) of our “end times.” We live in an age of anxiety, where social order and the imagination are as alienated as they have ever been, creating our estrangement from a sane and ne... + Read More
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Series: Skydive Paperback Kevin Kerr 9780889226388 $16.95 DRAMA Apr 15, 2010

Skydive explores the world of dreams and imagination: the universal human desire to push beyond our physical limitations and to fly.Having grown apart after a traumatic and de?ning moment in their youth, two brothers reconnect to fulfill a life-long ambition to go skydiving. Morgan (a feckless schemer who has recently reinvented himself as a counsellor) arrives on the doorstep of Daniel (a housebound agoraphobe), offering to help ?liberate” his brother by administering his newly invented technique of ?Paratherapy.” Convincing Daniel to face his... + Read More
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Series: Muthologos Lectures and Interviews Second Edition Paperback Charles Olson 9780889226395 $39.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Oct 31, 2010

Charles Olson’s insistence that the public value of any articulation is inseparable from the particulars of the time and place of its origins resulted in the proprioceptive methodology of his composition?in his speech and his writing, in both poetry and prose. Olson did not ?lecture”?he ?talked.” His encyclopedic knowledge of the subjects that interested him engaged in a manner always as surprising to himself as to his listeners. This element of discovery was to him a true measure of what is authentic in language, and it exhibits itself most in... + Read More
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Series: The Lil'wat World of Charlie Mack Paperback Dorothy Kennedy 9780889226401 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 10, 2010

Early in their ethnographic work, Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy were privileged to meet Charlie Mack. Born on the Mount Currie Reserve in 1899, he was a fascinating character and a font of wisdom, exemplifying by his way of life, his skills in trapping and canoe-making, and his knowledge of the history of his people, the living world of the Lil’wat, which the young ethnologists were able to record on tape and in their notes and photographs. Most important among what Charlie Mack gave them was a wide corpus of stories; he was a master story... + Read More
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Series: The Madonna Painter Paperback Michel Marc Bouchard 9780889226418 $16.95 DRAMA Mar 05, 2010

At the end of the First World War, to protect his village from the spanish ?u epidemic brought home by returning soldiers, a young priest recently arrived in the Parish of Lac St-Jean commissions a wandering Italian painter to decorate the walls of the local church with a fresco dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The painter is to choose, among four local women all named Mary, a model for his work. The presence of the foreign artist, his choice of a local virgin to serve as a model and the frighteningly strange nature of his work will upset the live... + Read More
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Series: The Edward Curtis Project A Modern Picture Story Paperback Marie Clements 9780889226425 $24.95 DRAMA Sep 30, 2010

Edward Curtis saw his job as that of creating a photographic record of ?the vanishing race of the North American Indian.” His work therefore became as much a projection of colonial attitudes upon aboriginal peoples as it was an authentic record of their lives.The Edward Curtis Project began when the Presentation House Theatre commissioned Marie Clements to write a play that would stage the issues raised by Curtis’ monumental but controversial achievement?to dramatize not only the creation of his twenty-volume photographic and ethnographic epic ... + Read More
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Series: NEWS Postcards from the Four Directions Paperback Drew Hayden Taylor 9780889226432 $24.95 TRAVEL Nov 30, 2010

In this collection of short humourous essays originally written for the popular media, playwright, novelist and screenwriter Drew Hayden Taylor sends his readers fascinating and exotic postcards from his globetrotting adventures, always on the lookout for the NEWS about aboriginal peoples around the world. Organized around the thematics suggested by the four cardinal directions central to the Ojibwa peoples?East for beginnings and youth; South for journeys both physical and spiritual; West for maturity and responsibility; and North for contempl... + Read More
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Series: Subject to Change Paperback Renee Rodin 9780889226449 $18.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2010

Composed of stories that sketch the resonant heights and depths of an auto- biography, Subject to Change is a series of portraits along the road of a life well lived. Each story is an articulate, intelligent, passionate record of how an encounter with a significant ?other,” be it a parent, a lover, a neighbour, a child, a grandchild, a politician or a friend, has changed and shaped the humanity, character and community?the ?subject”?of the writer.These are masterfully crafted stories: attentive to detail; conscious of the fact that our eccentri... + Read More
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Series: Piercing Paperback Larry Tremblay 9780889226456 $17.95 DRAMA Oct 15, 2010

In ?The Axe” a literature professor arrives at the door of one of his students in the middle of the night. On his way he has stumbled (with a flask of whiskey) through the pouring rain, stopping in a city park to vandalize the statue of an angel, tormented by the image of his life’s work, ninety-seven poems he has left behind in flames in his apartment. The student has turned in an assignment (which the professor has brought along in his briefcase): a carefully wrapped hatchet.In ?Piercing” a teenage runaway, Marie-He´lene, seeks to escape the ... + Read More
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Series: The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky Paperback Karen X. Tulchinsky 9780889226463 $29.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2010

In 2003, a mild-mannered historian named Moses Lapinsky jots down notes for a biography. It is to tell the tale of his father Sonny, a famous Jewish- Canadian boxer. As Moses buries himself in his research, he is transported back in time to the pivotal events of his father’s life. So begins the first of the five sections of the novel, each narrated by a different third person. Crammed with humour, sorrow, folly, bravery and the richness of the everyday, Tulchinsky traces the remarkable fortunes of generations of the Lapinsky family, bringing li... + Read More
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Series: Beating the Bushes Paperback Steven Bush 9780889226470 $18.95 ART Oct 01, 2010

Steven Bush is a man on a mission?to confront the skeletons in his family closet. Did his very own cousins rule a country that, even today, after electing its ?rst African American president, still seems bent on world domination? What can he, a distant relation of the ?Bushes” (so the story goes), do to end the madness and redeem the family name?Ever since the bloodless coup that felled the Republic (the controversial American election of 2000), Steven Bush has been hard at work to prove?or disprove?his blood ties to those bad Bushes in the Whi... + Read More
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Series: The Satchmo' Suite Paperback Hans Böggild 9780889226487 $16.95 DRAMA Aug 15, 2010

Hubert Clements is a black cellist on tour with a symphony orchestra. Their guest soloist is injured and the conductor asks Clements to stand in. After wrestling with an extremely dif?cult passage in the performance piece, Bach’s Six Suites for Solo Cello, Clements ?nally resorts to improvising his way through the score, which earns him a stinging rebuke from the conductor, who disdainfully calls him “Satchmo’.”Humiliated, Clements returns to his hotel room, where try as he might he cannot master the piece. Unwittingly invoking the ghost of Lou... + Read More
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Series: Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre Paperback Larry Tremblay 9780889226494 $16.95 DRAMA Aug 15, 2010

John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Inside that theatre today, Ranger Powell of the U.S. Parks Service takes crowds of tourists, the curious and the ghoulish through a step-by-step description of the assassination. Underneath the box where Lincoln was shot, he describes the plot of the comedy Lincoln watched that night, Our American Cousin, as being “kind of like the Beverly Hillbillies.”Scratch the surface of any story and underneath you will find layer upon layer of fiction masquerading as fact... + Read More
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Series: The Refugee Hotel Paperback Carmen Aguirre 9780889226500 $17.95 DRAMA Aug 15, 2010

Two events gave birth to this play: the 1998 arrest of Augusto Pinochet by the spanish courts and the 1995 death of Aguirre’s uncle, who drank himself to death on Vancouver’s skid row, never living to make a victorious return to his country. It has taken decades of silence for Aguirre to understand and come to terms with her family’s experience as refugees and exiles: ?The few times we spoke about it to other people, we were accused of being pathological liars and being crazy,” she says of those years. ?We learned never to talk about what was h... + Read More
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Series: With Bated Breath Paperback Bryden MacDonald 9780889226517 $17.95 DRAMA Aug 15, 2010

With Bated Breath asks questions about memory—how and why it plays such a prominent role in our lives: how time affects it, how it fractures, how we often reinvent it depending on the situation—and why it is that certain things stay with us with a blistering clarity, while the shadows of other people and events simply slip away, only to reveal themselves again later in our lives when we least expect them.This is the provocative tale of Willy, a troubled but charismatic gay kid who flees Cape Breton Island for Montreal with hopes of forgetting a... + Read More
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Series: The Collected Books of Artie Gold Paperback Arite Gold 9780889226524 $29.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2010

Artie Gold wrote. And although he published only eight books, they were just the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Artie was always writing? on his manual Underwood, on the back of cigarette packs, on napkins, on the wall, on postcards to himself and to the rest of the world. He also sketched, sketches of the moment, the moment of a moment, like his poems, whose phrases and unsentimental melancholia left a permanent impression on your mind and in your heart. He and his poems made you realize that poetry, contrary to popular opinion, did matter.Art... + Read More
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Series: time Paperback bill bissett 9780889226531 $18.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2010

bill bissett, who recently celebrated his seventieth birthday, remains even in his ?biblical years” Canada’s most exciting, innovative pioneer in the field of the written, spoken, performed, illustrated and sculpted word. No one over the past half century comes close to what bissett has accomplished in pushing the boundaries of language beyond what was imagined in the mid-twentieth century as their furthest possible horizon, and what is most astonishing is that he is still the vanguard of that movement in the ?language arts”, not just in Canada... + Read More
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Series: And So It Goes Paperback George F. Walker 9780889226548 $17.95 DRAMA Jan 01, 2011

Newly unemployed baby boomers Gwen and Ned appear to be completely different people: Gwen, a practical, down-to-earth Latin teacher; Ned, an impractical investment advisor constantly dreaming up new ventures for making money. But appearances can be deceiving, as their son Alex, who left home years ago, and their daughter Karen, recently diagnosed with schizophrenia, can attest. Unable to maintain the façade of their former middle-class lifestyle, Gwen and Ned search for a new life in vain, not realizing that they have become redundant?they spe... + Read More
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Series: Nuri Does Not Exist Paperback Sadru Jetha 9780889226555 $16.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2011

Zanzibar, an island set like a jewel in the Indian Ocean off the coast of east Africa is rich in cultural heritage: inhabited since the last Ice Age; birthplace of Kiswahili, the purest form of the Swahili language group; its original hunter-gatherer culture overlaid with Indian, Arab, Persian, Portuguese and finally British colonial and mercantile influences; and achieving its semi-autonomous independence in the bloody revolution of 1964; it remains the quintessential example of the fabled ?Spice Islands.”Within a swirl of profoundly different... + Read More
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Series: BASH'd Paperback Chris Craddock 9780889226562 $16.95 DRAMA Jan 12, 2011

When naïve small-town boy Dillon meets the sophisticated urban Jack in a gay bar, it’s love at first sight, and not just for a one-night stand either! While these star-crossed lovers manage to bring their initially dubious if not downright disowning families together in celebration of their marriage, their unblemished love certainly hasn’t changed the world—quite the contrary. When Jack becomes the victim of a gay-bashing, Dillon sets out on an indiscriminate rampage of revenge. Unfortunately, the straight men he takes on are neither particular... + Read More
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Series: Triage Paperback Cecily Nicholson 9780889226579 $16.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2011

In a world where the corporate iron fist clad in the velvet glove of the state has appropriated all that is authentic and authoritative in language, there seems little left for us to say to each other. Yet against the determination of borders, capital, criminalization and violence, stigmatized bodies also remember patterns, history, possibility and solidarity. Triage attempts an ordered, critical response to the surges of overlapping manufactured crises that perpetuate the conditions and symptoms of our public and private disentitlements.Drawi... + Read More
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Series: Paradise Garden Paperback Lucia Frangione 9780889226586 $17.95 DRAMA Mar 15, 2011

In the gold-rush era of the 1850s, the McKinnons settled on an island off the west coast of Canada, where the first thing they did was to turn this ?wilderness” into an English country garden complete with vegetables, flowers, fruit trees and an elegant gazebo. After six generations, times and circumstances have changed, the family estate has been subdivided, the flowers have gone wild, the pear-tree has rotted and the heritage house has been carved up into a duplex, the property now divided in two by an ugly hedge.The McKinnons now live in one... + Read More