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Echoic Mimic
$12.00Echoic Mimic is a mixed-genre long poem whose narrative thread follows the tumultuous life of a girl named Ada through a complicated love-hate relationship with her small hometown and its inhabitants, as she leaves to land wide-eyed in a new big city. Cut loose from the comfort and insular world of art school, she tries to figure out who she’s become and what to do next. Along the way, she must confront her personal myths by standing up to a confrontational character from her past, who continually inserts herself into Ada’s narrative at all the wrong times. A modern epic in four acts, Echoic Mimic uses playful and clever language to explore the creation of a personal mythology, the disjuncture between self-concept and the outer world, exit strategies adopted for self-preservation, and the things we do to alleviate inner emptiness.
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Echolocation
$19.95Winner of Best Cover Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!
Third Place in the Prose Category at the 2019 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada!
All Lit Up Book Club SelectionIn this provocative collection of short stories, Karen Hofmann creates characters who struggle to connect or disconnect from entanglements and relationships. With ironic accuracy and sensuous imagery, Hofmann considers a range of human foibles: a newlywed couple who transform into feral beasts during the hardships of a remote research expedition; backbiting faculty members who strip down during a post-conference BBQ; an heretical nun who explores the possibility of a new life by imaginatively excavating the fossils of BC’s Burgess Shale; and an ambitious bylaw officer determined to make her mark on the city’s streets.
In Echolocation, Karen Hofmann has found new ways to sound the depths of the human heart.
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Eco Warrior
$11.95Seventh book in Submarine Outlaw series; explains environmental activism in exciting and easy-to-understand terms; deals with timely matters of oil tankers and whaling.
In the seventh volume of the “Submarine Outlaw” series, Alfred takes his homemade submarine into the Southern Ocean to thwart the actions of the Japanese whalers. In Australia, he is mistakenly accused of sabotaging an oil tanker, forcing him to escape to Tasmania. There he meets up with Merwin Hughes, an eccentric environmentalist, and together they travel south. They are followed along the way by a friendly blue whale and her calf, and a bond is established. Soon after, they encounter a tanker on its way to illegally refuel the whalers’ ships. When Captain Paul Watson arrives aboard the Sea Shepherd Society’s flagship, the Steve Irwin, to stop the whalers, Al must first try to save the mother and calf even as he helps Watson fight off the whalers. Al learns that the war to save the planet is being waged by dedicated individuals, each contributing in his or her own way, and that every action, large or small, matters greatly. -
ECW’s Biographical Guide to Canadian Novelists
$25.00This comprehensive collection includes biographies of Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Frances Brooke, Ernest Buckler, Morley Callaghan, Leonard Cohen, Matt Cohen, Ralph Connor, Robertson Davies, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Marian Engel,Mavis Gallant, Hugh Garner, Dave Godfrey, Frederick Philip Grove, Thomas Haliburton, Robert Harlow, Jack Hodgins, Hugh Hood, William Kirby, Raymond Knister, Robert Kroetsch, Margaret Laurence, Stephen Leacock, Norman Levine, Hugh MacLennan, John Metcalf, W. O. Mitchell, Susanna Moodie, Alice Munro, Martha Ostenso, Gilbert Parker, Thomas Raddall, John Richardson, Mordecai Richler, Charles G. D. Roberts, Leon Rooke, Sinclair Ross, Ernest Thompson Seton, Robert Stead, Audrey Thomas, Catharine Parr Traill, Sheila Watson, Rudy Wiebe, Ethel Wilson, Adele Wiseman, and other writers of the 19th century. -
ECW’s Biographical Guide to Canadian Poets
$25.00This in-depth collection includes biographies of Milton Acorn, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Avison, Earle Birney, bill bissett, George Bowering, William Wilfred Campbell, Bliss Carman, Leonard Cohen, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Louis Dudek, Robert Finch, Ralph Gustafson, Charles Heavysege, D. G. Jones, Leo Kennedy, A. M. Klein, Raymond Knister, Robert Kroetsch, Archibald Lampman, Patrick Lane, Irving Layton, Dennis Lee, Dorothy Livesay, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Jay Macpherson, Eli Mandel, Daphne Marlatt, Charles Mair, John Newlove, bpNichol, Alden Nowlan, Michael Ondaatje, P. K. Page, E. J. Pratt, Al Purdy,James Reaney, Charles G. D. Roberts, Joe Rosenblatt, W.W.E. Ross, Charles Sangster, D. C. Scott, F. R. Scott, A. J. M. Smith, Raymond Souster, Miriam Waddington, Phyllis Webb, and Anne Wilkinson.
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Edge
$19.95Edge collects thirty years of essays, reviews, and interviews by celebrated Newfoundland poet Mary Dalton. Driven by a need to reconfigure how the margin is seen in literature, culture and politics, Dalton explores the work of writers and artists who occupy an imaginative threshold or edge: from the dark visions of Samuel Beckett to the dialogue novels of I. Compton-Burnett, from the apocalyptic Boatman paintings of fellow artist Gerald Squires to the vernacular poetry of John Steffler. Showcasing a use of language as vivid, precise, and supple as that in Dalton?s award-winning poetry, Edge reflects the range of a major Canadian poet?s interests and influences and celebrates what she calls ?people being grounded in their place, people knowing where they were, who they were, having a sense of connection to the land.?
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Edge Effects
$19.00Mature poems with their finger on the pulse of the dark side of the present.
Reading Edge Effects, Jan Conn’s masterful eighth collection, is a little like looking at Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of real industrial wastelands; both visions are as gorgeous as they are terrifying, platforms for thought, even for activism, depending as they do on the energy of the viewer/reader for completion.
“Edge effect” is an ecological term that has to do with the effect on an ecosystem of the juxtaposition of contrasting environments. The poems of Edge Effects have their connection to ecological matters, but they also ride other sorts of edge throughout, entering an unstable reality in which both time and space are given to uncanny shifting, so it’s “easy to believe visible reality is merely one isolated phenomenon / among many.”
Many of the poems in the book are inspired by paintings and drawings, but none of them is the standard ekphrastic exercise: Jan Conn’s poems go deep. They are reinventions of often hyper-real environments — astonishingly rich and mobile, nightmarish, splintered, fragmentary and afflicted by flux. Readers of Edge Effects will be stirred by an involving, non-coercive, witnessing art of great power.
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Edison’s Concrete Piano
$17.95Not even geniuses get it right the first time . . . An “entertaining” look at the failures of great inventors (Booklist)
From Alexander Graham Bell’s multi-nippled sheep to Leonardo da Vinci’s walk-on-water shoes, these ludicrous ideas and faulty designs will leave you with a smile on your face, and the reminder that even the very best of us make mistakes
To achieve great things, you have to be willing to take risks — and as Edison’s Concrete Piano reveals, some of the most famous names in history experienced plenty of flops and face-plants in the course of their careers. Thomas Edison, for example, not only revolutionized the world with the light bulb, but also designed a concrete piano, a nonoperational helicopter made from box kites and piano wire, and a machine to speak to the dead. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, actually devoted most of his time to his sheep farm in Nova Scotia — devising a multi-nippled sheep somewhere along the way. You’ll also read about Leonardo da Vinci’s walk-on-water shoes, George Washington Carver’s miracle peanut cure, and much more. The ludicrous ideas, faulty designs, and offbeat hobbies in this volume will inspire laughs — and serve as a reminder that even the very best minds make mistakes.
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Edmonton on Location
$19.95Edmonton on Location: River City Chronicles is an innovative collection of essays, memoirs, poems, and stories by acclaimed Edmontonians. These Edmontonians represent a cross-section of society, spanning generations, occupations, and lifestyles that have helped to make Edmonton unique. Edmonton On Location describes the heartbeat of this vibrant city, from parks and back alleys to the High Level Bridge and North Saskatchewan River.
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EDNA TAÇON
$45.00Edna Taçon became a prominent figure in Toronto during the 1940s, where she had a crucial impact on the development of abstract painting. Described as “Canada’s leading proponent of non-objective art,” she split her time between Toronto and New York, where her practice was in step with leading avant-garde artists.
Trained as a professional violinist, Taçon was influenced by the teachings of Wassily Kandinsky. Her understanding of music intertwined with her study of abstraction. She described her painting as an arena in which “verve and decorum collide” and where “unexpected devices of design dash into a bright rhythm.” While pursuing her radical art, she navigated societal barriers and a profound entanglement of her identity as a musician, artist, and woman in a male-dominated field.
Accompanying an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, EDNA TAÇON features twenty-four of Taçon’s rarely seen oil paintings, watercolours, and paper collages, along with archival sketches, correspondence, and photographs of the artist. The publication also includes an essay by curator Renée van der Avoird and an interview with the artist’s grandson, contemporary sculptor Carl Taçon.
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Effects of Isolation on the Brain, The
$19.95There are many forms of isolation, and Ellie is becoming an expert on them: unloved and ignored as a child in Vienna, up against cultural barriers in Canada, holed up in a cabin in the north. What are the effects of isolation on the brain? Is it loneliness and boredom that makes Ellie take risks and say yes to Vera, her glamorous but deeply disturbed friend? Vera has been abused as a child and is now putting her trust in a charlatan healer. Together they entangle Ellie in a murderous game of fantasy and revenge. Marooned on the shores of a frozen lake, Ellie must make her way out of the Canadian bush and the wilderness of her own soul. It is a journey through hostile territory– neglect, deceit, confusion, betrayal– but Ellie is a fighter. All she needs to survive is a soulmate. Don’t we all?
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Eigenheim
$17.00Eigenheim [Ei·gen·heim] noun.One’s own home.
What is home? Is it found, is it built, or does it simply exist wherever we invoke its name? These are the central concerns of Joanne Epp’s debut collection of poems. In Eigenheim, Epp wrestles with notions of home and the inherent tension between the need to go and find it and the desire to “settle down.” In the process, the world blossoms before her, offering glimpses of the transcendent.
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Eight Track
$19.95Poet and intermedia artist Oana Avasilichioaei’s Eight Track is a transliterary exploration of traces. Sound recordings, surveillance cameras, desert geoglyphs, drone operators, refugee interviews, animal imprints, and audio signals manifest moments of inspired wonder, systems of power, slippages, debris. In “the great era of seeing” when the boundary between tracking agent and monitored subject is worn thin by politics and commerce, Eight Track assembles a set of discordant melodies, polyphonic voices, transcriptions, theatres, and images in a struggle to hold on to agency and awe. Stirring from languages of oppression to languages of resistance, Eight Track echolocates the nameless, the noisy, the scattered, and the voiceless. This is ultimately a book of relations—of each of us to each other, to other life forms, to environments, to cultures, to the obsolete and the absolute, to the animal vitality we share.
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Eight-Wheeled Freedom
$20.00D. D. Miller is fascinated by roller derby. As the Derby Nerd he has been covering roller derby since 2009, travelling to games across Canada and the United States, including two world championships, reporting back to an ever-growing audience the details of the sport. In this entertaining and thorough book he explains roller derby to newcomers and charts the sport’s rise from small groups of women looking for people to skate with over the Internet to the world presence it is today.
Along the way he considers roller derby’s roots in Riot Grrrl and DIY culture, and the importance of the LGBTQ community both inside and outside of the sport. This is a warm, thoughtful look at a sport that Miller understands intimately, which takes us beyond the costumes and showmanship, into the heart of what he feels may be the first truly feminist sport.
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Einstein File
$29.95Einstein arrived in the United States in 1933, the year the Nazis rose to power in Germany. From that moment until he died in 1955, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI?with other agencies?feverishly collected “derogatory information” to undermine the renowned scientist’s influence and destroy his reputation. With material accessed under the Freedom of Information Act, Fred Jerome reveals the depth of, and the reasons for, this massive anti-Einstein campaign. He also uncovers Einstein’s strong political commitments that have been conveniently buried under the image of the absent-minded icon genius. Whereas Einstein said on several occasions, “My life is divided between equations and politics,” Jerome delves into his little-known political half-life. Einstein, Hoover? Trump Jerome’s preface to this new enriched edition of The Einstein File, traces the path of surveillance from J. Edgar Hoover, through McCarthyism, to the Trump era. The preface also presents new information gathered about the things that the FBI hated so much about Einstein: his very close friendship with Paul Robeson and their collaboration in fighting racism; and his studied position on Israel and Zionism that Israeli polticians do everything to hide.
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Einstein’s Cat
$17.00Whether considering the Skeena River or the foibles of an onscreen diva, Zoë Landale creates vivid and unforgettable poetry. Shot through with bright colour and sharp natural imagery, this is not a calm, contemplative collection. Indeed, Landale punctuates her own poetic musings with a director’s cut, a counterpoint of sly, often acerbic observations on her own lines. A fascinating and intricate work, Einstein’s Cat is a collection that is sure to reward repeat readings.