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Seventh generation: contemporary native writing
By Heather Hodgson. 1989
Section lines: a Manitoba anthology
By Mark Duncan. 1988
Shake hands with the devil: the failure of humanity in Rwanda
By Roméo A Dallaire, Brent Beardsley. 2003
As former head of the 1993 U.N. peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, Canadian general Dallaire's initial proposal called for 5,000 soldiers,…
to permit orderly elections and the return of the refugees. Nothing like this number was supplied, and the result was an outright attempt at genocide against the Tutsis that nearly succeeded, with 800,000 dead over three months. Dallaire's argument that Rwanda-like situations are fires that can be put out with a small force if caught early enough will certainly draw debate, but the book documents in horrifying detail what happens when no serious effort is made. Explicit descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. Canada Reads 2012. 2003.Settler education: poems
By Laurie D Graham. 2016
In the stunning poems of "Settler Education", Graham explores the Plains Cree uprising at Frog Lake -- the death of…
nine settlers, the hanging of six Cree warriors, the imprisonment of Big Bear, and the opening of the Prairies to unfettered settlement. In ways possible only with such an honest act of imagination, and with language at once terse and capacious, she reckons with how these pasts repeat and reconstitute themselves in the present. Poems from this book won the 2013 Thomas Morton Poetry Prize. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.Seven nights
By Jorge Luis Borges. 1986
Seven lectures in which the famous Argentine writer shares his personal observations on poetry and on great poetic works such…
as "The Divine Comedy" and "The Thousand and One Nights." In the final essay he reminisces on his blindness and how blindness has served him and other blind poets. 1986.Scattered poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.)
By Jack Kerouac. 1990
Seasonal works with letters on fire (Wesleyan poetry)
By Brenda Hillman. 2013
Hillman evokes fire to chart subtle changes of seasons during financial breakdown, environmental crisis, and street movements for social justice.…
She fuses the visionary, the political, and the personal to summon music and matter at once, calling the reader to be alive to the senses and to re-imagine a common life. 2014, c2013.Selected poems: Selected Poems (Bloomsbury Poetry Classics Ser.)
By Oscar Wilde, Ian Hamilton. 1998
"Bloomsbury Poetry Classics" are selections from the work of some of our greatest poets, aimed at the general reader. The…
selections have been made by the poet, critic and biographer Ian Hamilton. Although now famed chiefly as a playwright, Oscar Wilde started his career as a poet, winning the Newdigate Prize at Oxford in 1878. His most well known poem is 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'. 1998.Scapegoat!: famous court martials
By John Harris. 1988
In documented accounts ranging from the mid-18th century through World War II, Harris presents nine cases from British, French and…
American military history of scapegoats made to face a court martial. Through these controversial cases Harris paints a disturbing picture of the abuse of the court martial system. 1988.Selected poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems
By Margaret Forster, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 1988
The selection includes early poems published in 1826, when Elizabeth Barrett was 20, to the last poems she wrote before…
her death at age 55. Religious verse, lively ballads, social reforming and political poetry - all seemed to have had a good reception, as well as the better-known romantic poems. The selection shows the poet's versatility and also her development, as an inspiring and innovative writer. 1988.Search for the soul
By Milbourne Christopher. 1979
Science and the paranormal: probing the existence of the supernatural
By Barry Singer, George O Abell. 1981
A collection of twenty articles in which eminent scientists and authorities, such as Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov, take a…
critical look at popularized paranormal phenomena, including UFO's, psychics, and ancient astronauts. c1981.Season songs
By Ted Hughes. 1976
Selected cantos
By Ezra Pound. 1967
This selection from the Cantos was made by Pound himself in 1965, working from the Faber collected edition of Cantos…
I- CIX. In re-reading the work to make his choice, Pound marked several alterations and corrections, prepared a working index, and wrote a short but characteristic foreword. 1967.Second space: new poems
By Czesław Miłosz. 2004
The title's second space comprises heaven and hell, which have 'vanished forever'; without them the blessed cannot 'meet salvation' or…
the damned 'find suitable quarters'. The last collection of poetry that Milosz, the late Nobel laureate, prepared for publication shows him wrestling with faith and disbelief, sin and redemption, death and immortality. 2004. Uniform title: Poems.Same diff
By Donato Mancini. 2017
Influenced by documentary cinema, Dada poets, montage techniques, and a range of poets who are still writing, "Same Diff" explores…
the way social and economic histories become imprinted within language itself. The political and poetic melancholy of our moment is revealed in a long poem on climate change, particularly the disappearance of snow, while the real-life effects of fiscal austerity and poverty are voiced in fragments conveying social neuroses that stem from amplified, unfair competition for basic necessities. Each poem introduces a dominant motif that develops through repetition and incremental variations, sourcing language from newspapers, web sources, and overheard conversations to create an emotive effect, as felt in music. Bringing together research that spans the 15th century to the present day, Mancini searches for symbols that stand in for major social issues to articulate the nuances of living in a precarious time. 2017. Uniform title: Poems.During the pioneering years of the Canadian West, Mountie Sam Steele took an active role in virtually every significant historical…
event. Steele kept the peace in the Yukon during the Gold rush, quelled rebellions, stood down violent strikers, faced Cree, Blackfoot, and Kootenay warriors, and also fought in the Boer War and the First World War. 2003.Sasquatch: ape or man
By John Green. 1978
Samson Agonistes
By John Milton. 1970
This dramatic poem deals with the last phase in the life of the Samson mentioned in the Book of Judges;…
he is blind and a prisoner of the Philistines. In prison he is visited by various people, including his scheming wife, Delilah. He is finally summoned to provide amusement by feats of strength for the Philistine lords with disastrous consequences for all. 1970.Rêves à vendre ou Troisième calepin du même flâneur
By Félix Leclerc. 1984