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Straight Razor and Other Poems brings together Salvatore Ala's new poems and selections from his privately published broadsides. It is a beautiful and original collection. Both formal and lyrical, it is the work of a determined and committed craftsman.

Three of Chekhov's lesser-known stories, now beautifully rendered into English by novelist David Helwig. Sublimely illustrated by Seth.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 OTTAWA BOOK AWARD"e;As a potential heir to the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro, McInnis is off to a promising start."e;Publishers WeeklyAn affair that begins in an apothecarys garden brings Joyce to a hospice, where she tends to the dying alongside her own grief. A middle-aged woman recalls the lovable, lavable secret of the first night spent on her husbands farm. A mother and daughter discuss suicide while hiking a shipwreck survivors trail.In Nadine McInniss sophomore collection, boozers repent, gamblers reform, cheaters suffer, the deaf speak volumes, and cancer patients string flowers in their hair. Probing and compassionate, executed with a steady hand, Blood Secrets is an excavation of endings and their revelations: the affair that ends a marriage, the disease that ends a life, the effect of a long-ago suicide. And as her characters struggle to administer to each other in their final moments, each story becomes an autopsy, dissecting bodies for their secrets and daily life for the things it hides.Nadine McInnis is the author of seven books and the winner of a CBC Literary Award.

Pigeon Wars offers an outcast's tour of the post 9-11 clashes and challenges and changes refashioning the Middle East.

The best of Kapuscinski's published poems, offered for the first time in English.

The most famous use of the phrase sub divo appears in Horaces ode on patriotism, in which the poet enjoins the young to embrace the military, to suffer poverty, and, in a life of service to the nation, be sub divo (under the sky).In this collection of poems, however, Norm Sibum suggests that we are all of us sub divo, no matter who or what we are. Living under a sky from which there is no escape, with the conversion of value to parody almost complete, our poets are as likely to be fascists as they are rebels or conscientious objectors. Shall we talk it up, he asks his friend Foulard: how were isolate / In our skins Harps strung for satire and plunging tears?Personal, epistolary, corrosive, vented with Sibums classical spleen and explosive prosody, Sub Divo delves into the slap-happy passion and the colonial, scrappy, boisterous business of American culturewhile at the same time asking what future there is for a world divided even now / In the only places where we cohere, when all the disparate pieces drifting in us / Pine one for the other and look / For the ceremony that will join them.

A RADIO FRANCE-CULTURE/TLRAMA BEST WORK OF FICTIONBY THE WINNER OF THE 2013 CAMES PRIZEAND THE WINNER OF THE 2014 NEUSTADT PRIZEQuite unlike anything else I have read from Africa."e;"e;Doris LessingBy meshing the richness of African beliefs . . . into the Western framework of the novel, he creates a mysterious and surreal epic.Henning MankellMwanito was eleven when he saw a woman for the first time, and the sight so surprised him he burst into tears.Mwanito has been living in a former big-game park for eight years. The only people he knows are his father, his brother, an uncle, and a servant. Hes been told that the rest of the world is dead, that all roads are sad, that they wait for an apology from God. In the place his father calls Jezoosalem, Mwanito has been told that crying and praying are the same thing. Both, it seems, are forbidden.The eighth novel by the internationally bestselling Mia Couto, The Tuner of Silences is the story of Mwanitos struggle to reconstruct a family history that his father is unable to discuss. With the young womans arrival in Jezoosalem, however, the silence of the past quickly breaks down, and both his fathers story and the world are heard once more.The Tuner of Silences has been published to acclaim in more than half a dozen countries. Now in its first English translation, this story of an African boy's quest for the truth endures as a magical, humanizing confrontation between one child and the legacy of war.PRAISE FOR MIA COUTOOn almost every page we sense Coutos delight in those places where language slips officialdoms asphyxiating grasp.The New York Times"e;Even in translation, his prose is suffused with striking images.The Washington PostPRAISE FOR DAVID BROOKSHAW"e;David Brookshaw dexterously renders the novel's often colloquial, pithy Portuguese into lively English. Brookshaw's task is made more exacting by the particular quality of Couto's brilliance.The New York Times

Painters use the term fugitive pigments to describe those colours most prone to fading after a brief exposure to light. In Self-Portrait Without a Bicycle, poet and visual artist Jessica Hiemstra uses the idea of fugitive colour to explore the grieving process; whether her subject is a lost grandparent, language, child, painting or cat, Hiemstra renders the fleetingness of life with fine, delicate strokes.The poet listens, tastes and remembers, senses afloat, dipping into the past and then surfacing again, drawn by a perfect but fleeting moment. DescantJessica Hiemstra is a visual artist and writer. Self-Portrait Without a Bicycle is her third volume.

Mark Kingwell is a beautiful writer, a lucid thinker and a patient teacher ... His insights are intellectual anchors in a fast-changing world.Naomi Klein, author of No LogoMeet the fast zombie"e; citizen of the current world. He is a rapid, brainless carrier of preference-driven consumption. His Facebook-style likes replace complex notions of personhood. Legacy college admissions and status-seekers gobble up his idea of public education, and positional market reductions hollow out his sense of shared goods. Meanwhile, the political debates of his 24-hour-a-day newscycle are picked clean by pundits, tortured by tweets. Forget the TV shows and doomsday scenarios; when it comes to democracy, the zombie apocalypse may already be here.Since the publication of A Civil Tongue (1995), philosopher Mark Kingwell has been urging us to consider how monstrous, self-serving public behaviour can make it harder to imagine and achieve the society we want. Now, with Unruly Voices, Kingwell returns to the subjects of democracy, civility, and political action, in an attempt to revitalize an intellectual culture too-often deadened by its assumptions of personal advantage and economic value. These 17 new essays, where zombies share pages with cultural theorists, poets, and presidents, together argue for a return to the imaginationand from their own unruly voices rises a sympathetic democracy to counter the strangeness of the postmodern political landscape.Mark Kingwell is the author of sixteen books and a contributing editor for Harper's Magazine.

When a woman discovers a fortune in the attic, she begins a pilgrimage that takes her to the knife-edge between blessing and curse. Two fatherless children think Mr. Crisander is nothing more than the creepy next-door neighboruntil they nearly kill his pot-bellied pig and learn the secrets of his past. A young girl talks about grade six, stealing cigarettes, and her sister's no-food diet while being photographed by an Internet pornographer.The stories of Suitable Precautions are fresh and haunting, resonant with the bitter beauty of lives derailed, reclaimed, celebrated, and questioned. By turns funny and absurd, unexpected and devastating, these stories reveal the strange and tenuous bonds between people in love, marriage, and friendship.Laura Boudreau's work has been published in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Switzerland. She lives in London, England, where she works in publishing.

Like the promise of its title, All This Could Be Yours is full of elusive gifts. Joshua Trotter's debut collection is a metaphysical hall of windows that seem to be mirrors and mirrors presenting themselves as windows. Trotter's poemswhich could be the bastard love-children of Stevens and Frostrefract, reflect and deflect with canny puns and rhymes, the rigour of their forms belying the rogue trickster twists of cockeyed logic they take and the po-faced near-sense in which they speak. Don't be fooled into thinking these poems glib: Trotter is often most serious precisely at his most blithe; his poems are always thought-full. Full of intemperate winds / blown thinking from the ledge, through the gap // between the frame and what it haunts for us, they resist the intelligence, almost successfully, as Stevens said a poem should.

A critical and commercial success in German, Kahn & Engelmann tells the story of a Jewish family from rural Hungary, their immigration to Vienna in the great days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, their loves, business ventures and failings, and their eventual tragic destruction. Narrated by Peter Engelmann, who wishes only to forget his past, this highly original novel recreates a vanished Vienna with salty humour and humanity. In a voice which is appealing without being sentimental, Peter describes his escape from the Nazis through snowy woods, his attempts to start a new life in England and Canada, and his decision to immigrate to Israel. Written by an eminent scholar, himself a survivor of Nazism, Kahn & Engelmann is both an entertaining novel and a major work of Holocaust literature.

A memoir that chronicles unflinchingly the destructiveness of bipolar disorder - an illness that infiltrates thinking, feeling and acting in ways that change the very fabric of identity, of the life story one is telling oneself; however, The Lily Pond is equally searching in its exploration of the psyche's resources in healing and reknitting that story.

A retelling of the Trojan War told from Odysseus's perspective.

"e;Dawdler."e; "e;Layabout."e; "e;Shit-heel."e; "e;Loser."e; For as long as mankind has had to work for a living, which is to say ever since the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, people who work have disparaged those who prefer not to. Mark Kingwell's introductory essay offers a playful defence of the idler as homo superior, while Joshua Glenn's glossary playfully explores the etymology and history of hundreds of idler-specific terms and phrases, while offering both a corrective to popular misconceptions about idling and a foundation for a new mode of thinking about working and not working. The Idler's Glossary is destined to become The Devil's Dictionary for the idling classes, necessary reading for any and all who wish to introduce more truly "e;free"e; time into their daily lives.

Cold-cocked is the first book to explore a woman's way of watching the game poet Al Purdy called a "e;combination of ballet and murder."e; Written by author and born-again hockey aficionado Lorna Jackson, Cold-cocked looks at hockey through a woman's eyes and heart but is written with a sportswriter's energy and rigor and a hip cultural critic's cynicism and wit.