1.
Series:
Notes from a Feminist Killjoy
Essays on Everyday Life
Hardcover
Erin Wunker
9781771662567
$23.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 03, 2016
Winner of the Atlantic Book Awards 2017 Margaret and John Savage First Book AwardWinner of the East Coast Literary Awards 2017 Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction AwardFinalist for the 2017 Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly WritingErin Wunker is a feminist killjoy, and she thinks you should be one, too.Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take up Ahmed's project as a mu...
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2.
Series:
Involuntary Bliss
Paperback
Devon Code
9781771662499
$20.00
FICTION
Oct 18, 2016
Even in death, he said, the novella’s power would bind us together, all of us who had read it, appealing as it did equally to our emotions and our intellects.Intense and densely layered, Involuntary Bliss is the latest intriguing story from awardwinning young writer Devon Code. Situated in modern-day Montréal during a weekend in late August, two young men come together in an attempt to restore their friendship. From the streets of Montréal’s Plateau to the mountainous hillsides of Machu Picchu and beyond, this high-spirited picaresque inv...
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3.
Series:
Testament
Paperback
Vickie Gendreau
9781771662529
$20.00
FICTION
Oct 12, 2016
On June 6, 2012, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumour. In between treatments, between hospital stays and her "room of her own," she wrote Testament, an autofictional novel in which she imagines her death and at the same time, bequeaths to her friends and family both the fragmented story of her last year and the stories of the loved ones who keep her memory alive, in language as raw and flamboyant as she was.In the teasing and passionate voice of a twenty-three-year-old writer, inspired as much by literature as by YouTube and underg...
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4.
Series:
RATS NEST
Paperback
Mat Laporte
9781771662444
$18.00
FICTION
Oct 27, 2016
Mysterious and sometimes hallucinogenic, RATS NEST builds a narrative out of the complexity and dialectical uncertainty that many people feel about being alive in the 21st century. This first full-length book by Mat Laporte introduces readers to a protoplasmic, fantastical underworld, as navigated by a self-reproducing 3D Printed Kid made especially for this purpose. As the Kid descends the layers of a seemingly never-ending pit, its nightmares and hallucinations—recorded in stunning detail—unfold in twelve chilling chapters of unreality ...
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5.
Series:
Silvija
Paperback
Sandra Ridley
9781771662642
$18.00
POETRY
Sep 28, 2016
Grief is personal and unpredictable; no two people experience it the same way, and yet, each person that comes out the other side is transformed by their experience of loss and redemption.In a sequence of five feverish elegies, Sandra Ridley's Silvija combines narrative lyric and experimental verse styles to manifest dark themes related to love and loss: the traumas of psychological suffering (isolation and confinement), physical abuse (by parent and partner), terminal illness (brain tumour and heart attack), revelation, resolution, and healing...
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6.
Series:
How to Draw a Rhinoceros
Paperback
Kate Sutherland
9781771662604
$18.00
POETRY
Sep 22, 2016
How to Draw a Rhinoceros, the first book of poems by Canadian writer, scholar, and lawyer Kate Sutherland, mines centuries of rhinoceros representations in art and literature to document the history of European and North American encounters with the animal--from the elephant-rhinoceros battles staged by monarchs in the Middle Ages; the rhinomania that took hold in response to the European travels of Clara the 'Dutch' Rhinoceros in the mid-1700s; the menageries and circuses of the Victorian era; the exploits of celebrated twentieth-century hunte...
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7.
Series:
ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация
Paperback
Moez Surani
9781771662680
$18.00
POETRY
Oct 17, 2016
From poet-provocateur Moez Surani comes ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация--a book-length poetic inventory of contemporary rhetoric of violence and aggression, as depicted through the evolution of the language used to name the many military operations conducted by UN Member Nations since the organization’s inception in 1945.With Operation, Surani draws on contemporary poetic traditions, including conceptual and inventory poetics, to accomplish two important things: On the one hand, he shows that no word is free from connoting viol...
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8.
Series:
Lost Originals
Paperback
David Goldstein
9781771662727
$18.00
POETRY
Oct 06, 2016
Translation is the extrovert, metaphor the introvert. Without translation, there is no communication. Without metaphor, there is no art.Lost Originals, the latest collection of poetry from writer and scholar David Goldstein, explores the potential of metaphoric translation to contribute to a conversation about originality, the power of objects, and the boundaries of poetry and language.Taking as his foundation the notion that every act of speaking is a translation from one sort of experience to another, Goldstein's innovative poetic 'experiment...
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