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If the story doesn't end with marriage or a child, what then?
This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol on the eve of her 40th birthday. Despite a successful career as a writer, and an exciting life in New York City, Glynnis was constantly reminded she had neither of the things the world expected of a woman her age: a partner or a baby. She knew she was supposed to feel bad about this. After all, single women and those without children are often seen...
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Get ready to explore America's most thrilling gravel, road and trail bike routes. This definitive companion for cycling enthusiasts showcases 200 of North, Central and South America's best and most celebrated routes, from epic adventures off the beaten path to shorter urban rides. Go bikepacking in Baja, road riding in Colombia, mountain biking in Canada and gravel riding in Pennsylvania. Each ride is accompanied by stunning photos and a map and toolkit...
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If ostranenie-to make strange-is the mandate of contemporary poetry, EMILY CARR has achieved this both brilliantly and beautifully. Kaleidoscopic in its glimmering slivers, the life she brings us is built of charged familiars slightly and completely changed: the sun turns on its stem; the stallion rolls in a pasture of blue ether. Although she references poetic antecedents from Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams to Joan Retallack and Mary...
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Sheila Murphy and Douglas Barbour extend their singular poetic vision of that elusive third I/eye in Continuations 2. The new lyric voice sustained (within) these labyrinthine verses does so by virtue of its authors' pitch-perfect collaborative process. For ten years they have kept their song alive via email, pulsing jazz-like variations and haunting repetitions back and forth from Arizona to Alberta, all the while adhering to that taut stanza of...
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Tough and true. The cowboy con man played every con with science, luck and superstition. If it didn't feel right, he didn't do it, Engaging accounts of the Cowboy Con man’s life. How he manipulated the Italian mafia for years like they were school kids. Dropping seeds to the mark and when the mark came back later with the same idea conman knew he had him. One of the highest forms of manipulation.
Read along and you will learn the tricks of the...
10) Waterloo Express
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Originally published in 1973, Paulette Jiles's first collection amazed audiences with its rare depth of texture and verbal dexterity. Her work moves through landscapes that range from Africa to Mexico to Toronto with the ease of a travelling magician. Her swift, intricate metaphors leave the reader breathless, but her work also manages to be straight, earthy, vernacular, and disturbingly perceptive.
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Naturalist, ornithologist, avocational archaeologist and poet, Winnipegs Dr. Robert W. Nero has authored nine books dealing with his amazing spectrum of interests. Growing Old Together is the newest collection of poetry by this gifted writer, revealing his sensitivity and keen observation of the natural world. In his frequently passionate poetry Nero pays tribute to his wife, Ruth, who has, over many years, encouraged Bob to write and to pursue his...
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Don Kerr knows prairie culture better than most--he knows it from the inside out. He has made us aware of ourselves through his numerous volumes of poetry, his fiction, his many plays, his histories, and his interest in heritage. In this mature, accomplished collection, we can once again admire his unique prairie voice--minimalist, self-effacing, direct yet subtle and nuanced, immersed in his love of the vernacular language of this place. His line...
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The poetic mind by John Samurai is an epic chapbook of wonderous mini stories that will enchant you and leave you wanting for more. You will find in every poem in this collection something new and entertaining. The use of words is a true sign a of a master craftsman. You will enjoy the read be it a morning wake up with a cup of tea or coffee, or be it an evening read before sleep. Excitement awaits you among the poems on the pages of this book. Make...
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In Living in the Tall Grass: Poems of Reconciliation, Chief Stacey Laforme gives a history of his people through stories and poetry to let Canadians see through the eyes of Indigenous people. Living in the Tall Grass is written in a way that makes the reader feel he or she might be sitting down with Chief Laforme, sharing experiences from their lives. Some poems share humour, while others express pain, though each comes from the heart.
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Timely, important, mischievous, powerful: in a word, exceptional. Seventy-seven poems intended as a eulogy for what we have squandered, a reprimand for all we have allowed, a suggestion for what might still be salvaged, a poetic quarrel with our intolerant and greedy selves, a reflection on mortality and longing, as well as a long-running conversation with the mythological currents that flow throughout North America.
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Cet ouvrage bilingue (français et innu-aimun) est une invitation au dialogue. Bâtons à message fait référence à un ensemble de repères qui permettent aux nomades de s'orienter à l'intérieur des terres et de retrouver leur voie/voix. Également poétique de la relation, l'ouvrage est fondé sur l'entraide, la solidarité et le partage, nécessaires à la survie du peuple innu. En écho revient la langue de Nutshimit, la langue de la terre,...
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Premier recueil de poésie du grand écrivain autochtone Thomas King
Traduit par Jonathan Lamy
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Thomas King signe un premier recueil de poésie. Soixante-dix-sept fragments o alternent mythes réactualisés, commentaires politiques, tranches de vie et traits d'humour. Le tout porté par la puissance tellurique et le style iconoclaste de ce grand écrivain autochtone.
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Quand je me sens frustré,
je vais à la rivière
lancer des pierres
dans...
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Embark on a journey of tranquility and reflection with "Calmness of Being: Poetry" by Stephy Samurai. In this captivating collection, Samurai invites readers to immerse themselves in the serene beauty of haiku. Each verse delicately crafted, evoking moments of stillness and profound introspection. Through the simplicity of nature-inspired imagery, Samurai captures the essence of existence, inviting readers to pause, breathe, and find solace in the...
20) kiyam
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Through poems that move between the two languages, McIlwraith explores the beauty of the intersection between nêhiyawêwin, the Plains Cree language, and English, âkayâsîmowin. Written to honour her father's facility in nêhiyawêwin and her mother's beauty and generosity as an inheritor of Cree, Ojibwe, Scottish, and English, kiyâm articulates a powerful yearning for family, history, peace, and love.
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