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Pocahontas, Tonto, Injun Joe, and other First Nations characters discover they are characters and attempt to rewrite their stereotyped roles.Dead White Writer on the Floor uses two literary conventions theatre of the absurd and mystery novels to create one of the funniest and most thought-provoking plays ever about identity politics.Cast of 5 men and 1 woman.

Composed in three sections, "Glengarry" is a return in writing to the landscape of rob mclennan's youth.

Critical study of the visual art of bill bissett, internationally recognized as a pioneer of concrete, sound and performance poetry.

With breathtaking virtuosity, Garry Thomas Morse sets out to recover the appropriated, stolen and scattered world of his ancestral people.

Meditative, incisive and light in their touch, these poems meditate on the present moment, precariously balanced between past and future.

Triage attempts an ordered, critical response to the manufactured crises that perpetuate our public and private disentitlements.

When Jack becomes the victim of a gay bashing, Dillon sets out on an indiscriminate rampage of revenge.

An allegory of our post-9/11 lives, but also a paean to the will that carries us through our darkest hours.

bill bissett, who recently celebrated his seventieth birthday, remains even in his ¿biblical years¿ Canadäs most exciting, innovative pioneer in the field of the written, spoken, performed, illustrated and sculpted word. No one over the past half century comes close to what bissett has accomplished in pushing the boundaries of language beyond what was imagined in the mid-twentieth century as their furthest possible horizon, and what is most astonishing is that he is still the vanguard of that movement in the ¿language arts¿, not just in Canada, but around the world today. As a way of introducing new readers to the non-hierarchical orthography, syntax and breath-determined metric and cadence so essential to the construction of meaning in the performance scores of his narrative poetry, Talon asked bissett to tell his readers in his own inimitable and ¿raging¿ way what his latest book is ¿about¿:time is reelee abt how evreething is fleeting n how we deel with that n how deeplee we undrstand that awareness th jewels shine as our undrstandings th layrs n openings apertures n iris lens in or not n how manee narrativs reveel our paradoxikul n continualee shifting minds ¿ a storee is what time is it ¿ 4 ourselvs n our specees n how timeless th breth uv th galaxee n oftn ourselvs tho agen fleeting lyrik song chant philosophikal theologikul prsonal propheseez vizual n tanguld tangos ¿ with th invisibul dansrs ¿ n th 4tune tellrs shuffuling theyr decks how we yern 4 n letting go uv our games finding love n th chancs 4 savin th environment n our selvs¿ bill bissett

Collected work of Artie Gold, who appeared like a supernova within the constellation of Montreal Anglophone poets in the 1960s.

A black cellist invokes the ghost of Louis Armstrong to help him with Bach's difficult Six Suites for Solo Cello.

Composed of autobiographical stories that sketch the resonant heights and depths of a memoir, Subject to Change is a series of portraits along the road of a life well-lived. These stories are articulate, intelligent, passionate records of how encounters with others have changed and shaped the humanity, character and community the subject of the writer.

A profoundly moving new drama by Marie Clements, combined with a spectacular contemporary photo exhibit by Rita Leistner.

These stories from master storyteller Charlie Mack share his knowledge of the history of his people, the Lil'wat.

In this compilation of Olson's transcribed lectures and interviews, we get all that is preserved of a life of talk.

Subtitled "notes to myself," "Hypoderm" is a manifesto of observations and recognitions of mortality that get under the poet's skin.

More in Davey's ongoing work on the use of the sentence as the basic structural unit of poetry.

This book offers an exquisite poetic autobiography that is at once both intensely personal and profoundly public.

Part travel journal, part dark novel-in-verse, "Asian Skies" chronicles a search for the beloved in a commodified and globalized world.