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All eight of Schierbeeks books of prose-poetry from 1951 on, which he termed compositional novels, have a musical form and contentwords as notes in a sound-defined imaginal context. De gestalte der stem, 1957 (The Shape of the Voice, 1977) is the ...

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Born in Genoa in 1930, Edoardo Sanguineti is one of the most prominent Italian poets of this century. To his European audience Sanguineti is the intellectual confrere of writers such as Italo Calvino and Vaclav Havel. He is the author of three nov...

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'In her new collection, Travis Lane speaks of the 'impermanent elation' that 'a word,/ like a live fish in water, sometimes shows'. The language of 'Keeping Afloat' flashes with wit, sensuousness, and a combination of faith (elation) and scepticis...

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Reimagining the life of Italian poet Gabriela D'Annuzio, this play draws on D'Annuzio's beautifully crafted love letters to recreate a hidden family drama between mother and daughter. D'Annuzio, who achieved early fame in Italy for his rich and se...

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This is a humorous, poignant, whimsical account of growing up in a long-ago neighbourhood which was as improbable a place as any one might imagine. Jumping back and forth from one age to another, it is presented through the eyes of a boy as he liv...

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With humour and poignancy, Marisa Labozzetta's stories expose the social and sexual turmoil of men and women in the time as she puts it 'the old age of youth.' In 'The Knife Lady,' a seemingly happily married suburbanite receives a jolt of sexual ...

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Originally published in 1968, this treatise provides insight into one man's disappointment with his own work while derisively attacking the uselessness and presumption of the Italian theatre establishment.

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Maria Mazziotti Gillan weaves a tapestry of one woman's life - wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, grand-daughter, Italian American. Reading these poems in one volume makes us acutely aware of how memory is layered, each new poem adding another d...

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Les Divines, produced in 1996, continues an exploration of feminism started in Les Fees ont soif in its portrait of seven daughters who reunite in a ritual wake for an idealised mother.

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In French, "Tombeau de Lou". At its origin, the death of the childhood friend, the chosen sister, swept away by a sudden cancer. She was fifty-three years old. Like the poet. The one who remains, the survivor, the inconsolable woman. Tha...

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Born into Somali royalty and Saudi Arabian wealth, Fatma is given away in infancy and, at age 12, forced into an arranged marriage with a young Peace Corps worker. Prejudice and cultural demands lead to a number of painful promises that will dicta...

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Translation of award-winning Quebecois writer Lise Gauvin's 2003 short story collection. The collection features intimate spaces within public places and how these can encroach on one another in subtle yet dangerous ways.

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Luka Novak's "The Golden Shower or What Men Want" is a light-hearted but deadly serious romp through post-modern culture, mores and lifestyles. In turns, it is shallow, profound, didactic, moving and instructive. In its original Slovenia...

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Kreslin's poetry is a beautiful aesthetic experience, evocative and subtle, particularly rich in natural imagery. There are clear themes that run like veins throughout it: the Mura River (which winds through Prekmurje), the ubiquitous storks of Pr...

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This collection of poetry is a selection of award-winning Franco-Ontarian poet Robert Dickson's various collections of poetry, including his Governor-General Award winning Humains paysages en temps de paix relative.

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From the vast expanse of the boreal forest, Vivian Demuth shows both an exquisite eye for detail and a profound concern for the larger environmental picture. Her lively poems show that, to an engaged observer with an accomplished literary imaginat...

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From the jungles of Guyana to the urban jungle of Ottawa, Cyril Dabydeen's "My Multi-Ethnic Friends & Other Stories" highlights the struggles of immigrant life in a society that talks multiculturalism but doesn't always walk it. The ...

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In this satirical take on the goings on in the halls of academia, Christian private-college style, Ricapito tells the story of Bert Russo, a naive professor who learns the hard way that making waves (especially political ones) can lead to dire con...

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A sense of place has always dominated Louise McKinney's writing life. This poetry collection represents the best of her poetry written from the early 1980s to now. More than depicting mere geographical adventuring, this work expresses the poet's p...

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COCKEYED: askew, crooked, intoxicated, absurd; marked by bends or angles; incongruous, not straight. In other words, Jim Christy, Canada's most iconoclastic and irreverent poet, views this cockeyed world the way it is; not only with 20/20 but X-ra...

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Where other poets of his generation developed strategies of deconstruction, Jean-Pierre Vallotton invented a brave new mosaic with the parameters left behind by traditionalism, modernism and post-modernism. If William Wordsworth, Oscar Wilde, T S ...

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"Reaching V" occurs when geese find perfect formation -- riding on air, sharing leadership, and honking encouragement on the journey. These poems explore moments of epiphany, when, like a skein of geese, things align. They investigate mo...

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Grouped into four sections, the poems in this collection relate to the writer's experience of diving "into the destructive element" (in Joseph Conrad's words), naked, vulnerable, stripping off clothes, masks, and preconceptions in a proc...

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Kafka's writings are characterised by an extreme sensitivity manifested in absurdity, alienation, and gallows humour, and these two particular collections of short pieces, A Country Doctor (1919) and A Hunger Artist (1924), represent later works i...

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"The Ocean's Will" (title inspired by Robert Frost's "A Boy's Will... is the wind's will") deals with the connection between humans and nature, the wildness of creation in both nature and the artist. Just as the wildness of nat...

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Using the poetry of the people and the language of the streets, Gil Fagiani brings to life the world of addiction and treatment -- with the tumultuous 1960s as background. Fagiani tells the story of Logos, a heroin treatment center in South Bronx ...

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The adventure of discovering, then diving into the world of that esoteric and fascinating French 'literary club', the Oulipo - and the perils of trying to reconfigure the world's most famous monologue while abiding by their fiendishly challenging ...

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They were shot, transported, deported. They were hanged, or they hanged themselves. They starved, or their hearts suddenly failed, or drugs or cancer consumed them. Others lived into their nineties, one even to 103. Nicola Vulpes 'Insult to the Br...

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In her debut collection of poetry, Conyer Clayton hovers in the ether, grasping wildly for a fleeting sense of certitude. Through experiences with addiction and co-dependence, sex and art, nature and death, she grapples for transcendence while exp...

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How do we make sense of our relationships -- successes and failures, preferences and challenges, past and present. And after we make sense of them all -- what do we do to increase the successes that we are striving to attain. In It's Attachment, K...

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