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Bruce Meyer's forté is to delve into the interconnectedness of our relationship with the physical and the spiritual. He is a poet channelling the music and suffering of the human experience and, beyond that, the spiral of cultivation and destruction that sustains and endangers humankind. His poems are daring and artistically defying, composed with gravitas, powerful mindfulness, and reverence.

Vladimir Azarov grew up and came to maturity during a time in the Soviet Union when penal camps and the secret police were ubiquitous, but the one great truth that he and the world learned from all the great Russian writers, and that he learned in his own life in political exile, is that almost everything can be taken from an individual but his or her story, his or her undying and unyielding sense of self.

With a stunning command of the Greek language and a mastery of poetic nuance, this translation of Euripides' play breathes unparalleled life into an ancient masterpiece. Using vocabulary that gives the sense that the play was written with an appreciation of and application to the 20th and 21st centuries, this adaptation goes beyond the timeless plot of the consequences of war and the fate of both the victors and the losers and focuses on the m...

Erudite and funny, nostalgic and fanciful, these stories unlock the secret longings and unlooked-for victories that make up everyday life. Whether he finds himself in the stands at Yankee Stadium on Bat Day, or caught off guard by the ways in which a recipe and its misspellings are a window into the woman who wrote it years before, Hayward writes with a sure sense of his characters and the imperfect worlds they inhabit.

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This is a tale for our times, a coming of age story that begins in Canada and evolves in present-day Turkey, engaging matters of family breakdown in the context of religious orthodoxy and deadly cultural conservatism. Bozuk ("Broken” in Turkish) allows us to realize that one can survive even the most cataclysmic of events.

In a fun but wise way, this novel examines the advantages and pitfalls of fame, wealth, celebrity, female independence, the myth of safety, and the surreal nature of heritage pushing through upbringing. Johnny Major, a Sicilian-born magnate and creator of a network of restaurant-club-casinos across Europe and North America, dies and his will goes missing. Johnny's death then forces his beloved daughter Elissa--a small-animal veterinarian in Ea...

Poems written with clarity and craftsmanship, this collection contemplates what is real and observable versus what is not. The verses are like asterisks that refer to somewhere else, and they strike with meditative depth and spiritual strength. Drawn from experiences in Burma, England, Spain, and the United States, these words depict moments in time and step back into silence.

Spanning Gwendolyn MacEwen's career from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, this is a comprehensive collection of work by one of the greatest women writers of the 20th century. It traces the trajectory of her verse and the development of her fiction and drama, and includes letters, paintings, and photographs from the oeuvre of this beloved Canadian poet.

Capturing the 20th-century literary world, this collection of nonfiction work includes essays, reviews, and articles concerning the personalities and events between 1928 and 1990. Starting in the 1920s with Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, the reflections move through the decades covering everything from war propaganda to the life of a writer.

Throughout the Great Depression, Callaghan provided for himself and his family by writing short stories, which Ernest Hemingway compared to James Joyce. Of the more than 100 short stories that Morley Callaghan published, 21 appeared in "The New Yorker "over a period of 10 years. Those tales find new life in this reprint of a classic short story collection.

A groundbreaking multilingual collection promoting a global poetic consciousness, this volume presents the works of 20 international poets, all in their original languages, alongside English translations by some of Canada's most esteemed poets. Providing an introductory statement about the translation process of each poem, translating poets include Canadians Ken Babstock, Dionne Brand, Nicole Brossard, Barry Callaghan, A. F. Moritz, and Paul V...

Inspired by the distinguished painter Paul-Emile Borduas, this collective manifesto serves as an invaluable introduction to the major figures of the Canadian avant-garde scene in the 1970s. Generously illustrated with photographs from the period, this classic text details the social and political implications of the radical art scene that led up to Quebec's Quiet Revolution. It is a must read for anyone interested in modernism or contemporary ...

Drawing on memory and its occasional fictions, these poems mix surreal captions, tongue-in-cheek cynicism, documentary techniques, self-parody, storytelling, and even traditional lyricism. Surprising and diverse, some of the topics presented include poetry that reduces cholesterol, a letter written to fields of grain back home, and a 1950s family's morning rituals.

Brimming with quirky characters and uncommon insights, this collection of poems introduces a Karaoke King who almost blows his one shot at true love, a misanthrope who loses his only friend, and a young girl who recites an ode to "Dirty Donnie, " the name she has given her constant companion: a cigarette. Accessible and open, jaunty and energetic, these poems pay homage to everyday experiences and poetic tradition--with monologues that rub sho...

From the streets of modern Israel to the barrooms of Brooklyn to a suburban New England synagogue, the characters in these 10 stories search for love and acceptance in a world scarred by loss and loneliness. In "The Madonna of Temple Beth Elohim, " an Iraq war veteran sees a vision of the Virgin Mary on the eve of the Jewish high holidays. In "My Darling Sweetheart Baby, " a working-class drunk waits on his stoop for his disability check and t...

In these linked plays, prize-winning playwright Daniel David Moses explores the frontier and discovers that the human face of the old West was more than cowboys and Indians.