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By Vivek Shraya. 2016
Vivek's debut collection of poetry is a bold, timely, and personal interrogation of skin - its origins, functions, and limitations.…
Poems that range in style from starkly concrete to limber break down the barriers that prevent understanding of what it means to be racialized. Shraya paints the face of everyday racism with words, rendering it visible, tangible, and undeniable. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.Exploded view: observations on reading, writing and life
By Jean McKay. 2001
The exploded view is a diagram which shows how each component of an object relates to the whole, and is…
usually applied to machinery. McKay uses it to explode everything from macaroons to metaphors. In her alphabetical essays she explodes language and her world view, taking a variety of things apart, from babies and crabapples to funerals and acorns, and putting them back together in unexpected ways. Some strong language.Blind ambitions
By Randy Bear Lacey. 2013
This book of poems deals with the trials of losing your vision as an adult and having to learn how…
to live a new lifestyle. It also illustrates how the writer’s faith in God keeps him grounded and gives him hope to carry on. 2013.Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to…
burn the cover of his widely successful novel, "The Book of Negroes", in 2011. Why do books continue to ignite such strong reactions in people in the age of the Internet? Is banning, censoring, or controlling book distribution ever justified? Hill illustrates his ideas with anecdotes and lists names of Canadian writers who faced censorship challenges in the twenty-first century, inviting conversation between those on opposite sides of these contentious issues. Includes violence. 2013.Book of longing
By Leonard Cohen. 2006
A collection of musings, jottings, quatrains, lyrics, prose meditations and offhand epigrams, including previously unpublished poems dating as far back…
as 1970. Cohen displays both a surface humility and an underlying self-confidence as he reflects on women, Zen doctrine, his own advancing age, and the legacy of the '60s. Descriptions of sex and strong language. 2006.A wild peculiar joy: selected poems, 1945-89 (The Modern Canadian poets)
By Irving Layton. 1989
A reading diary
By Alberto Manguel. 2004
When anthologist and essayist Alberto Manguel decided to reread a few of his favourite books, he was struck by how…
they seemed to reflect and comment on the chaos of the world. This prompted him to keep a year-long record of the connections between the books we love and the lives we lead by revisiting a book each month. The result is a book lover's diary - a volume of notes, reflections, impressions of travel, and events private and public. 2004.19 varieties of gazelle: poems of the Middle East
By Naomi Shihab Nye. 2002
Over four dozen of her own poems about the Middle East and about being an Arab American living in the…
United States. Nye writes of figs and olives, fathers' blessings and grandmothers' hands. She writes of Palestinians, living and dead, of war, and of peace. 2002.The library at night
By Alberto Manguel. 2006
An account of Manguel's astonishment at the variety, beauty and persistence of our efforts to shape the world and our…
lives, most notably through something almost as old as reading itself: libraries. The result is both personal and wide-ranging: a study of the mysteries of libraries, a thorough analysis of their history throughout the world, and an esoteric celebration of reading. 2006.Everyday eclipses
By Roger McGough. 2002
These poems contain Roger McGough's own spin on innocence and experience. Poems about his docker father and his new daughter;…
poems about how, in his dreams, he gave the idea of "Hey Jude" to McCartney and advised Dylan to go electric; and poems about sad music and the sad eclipses of everyday life. 2002.Waiting for Godot: a tragicomedy in two acts
By Samuel Beckett. 2006
This play portrays two tramps, trapped in an endless waiting for the arrival of a mysterious personage named Godot, while…
disputing the appointed place and hour of his coming. They amuse themselves with various bouts of repartee and word-play. First published 1956. 2006.Blackbird singing: poems and lyrics 1965-1999
By Adrian Mitchell, Paul McCartney. 2001
A highly personal collection from one of the major cultural figures of the last 50 years, containing the lyrics to…
many of the best-loved Paul McCartney songs, and also poems that have never before been seen, including moving elegies to his late wife, Linda.Kid (Faber Pocket Poetry Ser.)
By Simon Armitage. 1999
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
By Seamus Heaney. 1999
A translation of the 10th-century Anglo-Saxon poem relating Beowulf's triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a…
defender of his people. Heaney has aimed to produce a work true both to the original, which is one of the classics of European literature, and to his own creativity. 1999.Littérature et société québécoise: histoire, méthode et textes
By Marie-Claude Waymel, Claude Lizé. 1991
L'ouvrage trace un portrait dynamique de la littérature du Québec des origines jusqu'à nos jours. Pour ce faire, les auteurs…
ont organisé la matière en deux champs d'étude: la réflexion sur le littéraire comme phénomène social - y sont abordées des notions comme celles de corpus, d'horizon d'attente, de réception, d'idéologie, d'esthétique, etc. - et l'histoire littéraire, c'est-à-dire la constitution du corpus à travers le temps, sa diversification en des genres ayant connu et connaissant une évolution propre, etc. 1991.Le vitrail brisé: [poésie] ((Poésie (Écrits des Forges)).)
By Jean-Paul Daoust. 2009
Porc-épic
By David Paquet. 2009
La première fois que jai dit je taime à une fille, je me suis fait répondre : Je te toucherais…
même pas avec un bâton. Depuis ce temps-là, quand une fille me fait de leffet, je vomis. Ou je saigne du nez. Ou je suis incapable darrêter de cligner des yeux en tremblant de la jambe gauche. Cest triste, han ? Trouves-tu que cest triste ? -- 4e de couv."Cette nouvelle édition, augmentée d'un important chapitre sur la poésie des années 1990 et 2000, raconte les origines et l'évolution…
de la poésie depuis les découvreurs de la Nouvelle-France jusqu'aux poètes qui s'inscrivent dans la diversité et la maturité littéraires du Québec actuel. De Jacques Cartier et Marie de l'Incarnation à Anne Hébert et Gaston Miron, de Nelligan à Marie Uguay, de Saint-Denys-Garneau à Robert Melançon et Hélène Dorion, d'Alain Grandbois à Roland Giguère, de Rina Lasnier à Nicole Brossard et Normand de Bellefeuille, de Jacques Brault à Madeleine Gagnon et Paul Chamberland, l'aventure de la poésie québécoise est unique et son destin, exemplaire. Cet essai retrace, à l'intention d'un large public, les âges de notre poésie : les étapes de son itinéraire, l'évolution de ses thématiques, les mouvements qui la secouent, le rôle de ses principales maisons d'édition, les oeuvres marquantes qui la caractérisent, les figures légendaires qui l'habitent et ses voix les plus personnelles parmi l'abondance de la production contemporaine." -- 4e de couv.Lettres à l'indigène
By Joël Des Rosiers. 2009
"Ce sont des lettres d'amour qu'un homme adresse à une femme. Il a cru la rencontrer à Paris. Puis à…
Cayenne. Ou encore dans les livres qu'il écrit. Seule cette irradiation que propage l'écriture, en enchaînant les lettres à leur office le plus sacré, est capable de faire remonter les êtres aimés. Ne sont-elles pas composées pour provoquer leur mutation la plus essentielle, jusqu'à ce que nous les reconnaissions, à la surface des lignes écrites, comme notre part la plus intime? Cette liberté que donne l'amour, si prodigieusement déposée dans la vie d'une femme, comme toute chose indigène, ne s'obtient qu'au prix du plus grand dépouillement. Investi des forces suppliantes de l'amour, l'écrivain, pour nommer les choses avant qu'elles ne s'éteignent, fait présent de ces lettres à l'Indigène". -- 4e de couv.Tit-Coq: théâtre
By Gratien Gélinas. 1981