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At times satirical, ironic and tenderly sincere, this collection charts the wandering course of faith by examining the death records of a diverse cast of characters. Presented as eulogies, elegies, obituaries, and panegyrics, these poems explore the cyclical nature of belief and loss, living and rebirth, with lyrical regret and narrative celebration. Fragments of memory, excerpts from longer stories told and retold: this is how we remember.

This classic play has been translated before, but only into a pallid approximation of the original joual. Scots, however, is an energetic and earthy vernacular with a distinctive sound system equal to joual. The play, a landmark in Canadian theatre, can now be truly appreciated in this superb translation, just as audiences in Glasgow and Moscow have learned to laugh with these ladies.

Continuing the author's exploration of myth and mourning, this poetry collection examines how the past survives in the present and how people stay afloat amidst the knowledge of mortality.

The first book-length selection in English of the poetry of Gilles Hénault, this collection offers a sampling of early and late work, including the famous long poem, Semaphore, and eight translations from À l'inconnue nue.

In this, his fourth collection, a retired Justice of the Ontario Court again offers his wise and sometimes wry insights, tinged by frailty and tolerance.

A year before "Lewinsky" became a household name, Leon Rooke was at work on this novel about an aging right-wing southern senator's shenanigans with interns, fraudulent Vietnam War heroes, and the real players in the Washington power playpen: the doorman at the Watergate, the local mafia don and his floozies, and the no-neck "spin-doctors" who "clean up" after the celebrities.

Winner of the Governor General's Award for fiction in 1997, the work of Quebec writer Aude is now available to English readers for the first time. In this novella comprised of carefully observed short fictions, readers encounter diverse voices--the survivor of a prison camp, a runaway teenager--reacting to loss, death, and the possiblilities of caring.

Weaving deftly through life, love and power, Priscila Uppal's poems reveal remarkable maturity and a wide range. Weaving deftly through life, love and power, Priscila Uppal's poems reveal remarkable maturity and a wide range. Tight, disciplined language brings mythology, religion and the power of the supernatural into ordinary everyday life. Bypassing youthful sentimentality, she goes straight for the core of life and death. How to Draw Blood ...

In his first short story collection in five years, Leon Rooke brings together an extraordinary array of documents from diverse hot spots around the world. In an attempt to answer the question What is art?, the stories explore Italian "art, " Mexican "art, " Gypsy "art, " Native "art, " and political "art.

Written as a series of journals, this novel features an author seeking to establish his real presence through his prose and to dispel the fear he's had since childhood--that he does not exist. What the journal poses is not the tragic question, the mad man's Who am I? but the comic question, the bewildered man's Am I?

This sequence of love poems explores the full range of emotions--purity, lust, devotion, rage, betrayal, and serenity--from the carbon of lust to the diamond of divine love.

Written in the great Irish tradition, these 10 tales are set in Ireland and America, reflecting the poet's own deep and travelled experiences.

Ranging widely in subject matter--from a musician's destructive narcissism to the strange effects a persistent Norwegian has on a bachelor's love life--the stories in this collection also vary in style. Both elegantly insightful and highly adventurous, these tales are inventive, deeply comic, sometimes very unsettling, and completely engaging.

Written by one of Canada's most distinctive poets, this collection of lyric poems, elegiac in their exploration of memory, offers a way of transcending the present and informing the future.

Ripe with love, money, and power, the story of 35-year-old Rudolf--set in a fast-paced, urban environment--begs the question Do we only think we exist? Rudolf and his wife work day and night hoping for a better life--he is a philosophy graduate student and the manager of a car dealership. He also keeps up a heart-wrenching relationship with the chic Wanda. Then there is Nina, who studies logic but is secretly a prostitute, and Alfred, owner of...

This compelling story explores the motley crew of characters--including mother-turned-stripper Gloria, alcoholic Tim, frequent jailbird Charlie, and the suicidal wife of a rich doctor--who call the rundown Hôtel des Voyageurs home. Mesmerizing in its passion and humility, the narrative evokes the despair and innocence present in modern urban surroundings.

Written by one of the great contemporary German story tellers, this book explores all the subtle anxieties of souls stripped of easy access to hope.

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Insightfully showcasing the inner divide, this poetic memoir aims to break down the larger lies of poetic form and the smaller dishonesties within the self. A fixation on medical language and the crucial aspects of what it means to be human, to love, and to be loved are woven throughout this collection. Featuring compelling lesbian themes, this is a humorous book of self-discovery that conjures up all the joy, toughness, and melancholy of bein...