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Giving Up
$20.00At times funny, at other times sad, and more than often a mixture of the two, Giving Up by Mike Steeves is a deeply felt account of what goes on in the inner sanctum of the modern couple’s apartment.
In grappling with the line between what happened and what might have happened, Steeves gives voice to the anguish of a generation of people who grew up with great expectations, and are now settling into their own personal failures and compromises: James is obsessed with completing his life’s work. Mary is worried about their problems starting a family, and is scared that their future might not turn out as she’d planned. In the span of a few hours on an ordinary night in a non-descript city, two relatively small events will have enormous consequences on James’ and Mary’s lives, both together and apart.
With an unrelenting prose style and pitch-black humour, Giving Up addresses difficult topics–James’s ruinous ambition, and Mary’s quiet anguish–in a funny and relatable way.
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Giving Up the Ghost
$22.00Giving up the Ghost by Adam Lindsay Honsinger is a novel that follows a family grappling with the repercussions (real and imagined) of the unresolved trauma that has sent each of them spiralling into their own separate orbits. Taking place primarily in the three days leading up to the anniversary of his son?s death, Dr. Vanderlay Stone self-medicates his way through a series of events that ultimately leaves his life in ruins. His estranged wife, Aria, whose grief has left her questioning her faith and her role as a mother, finds that, whether she believes in them or not, there are forces that must be reckoned with. Meanwhile, Dhani?s grandmother organizes a ceremony that she believes will both ensure that her grandson?s soul will transmigrate to a proper state and bring the family back together. As questions of fate and chance converge, these characters find their way, not necessarily back to the ones they love, but to a place where hope and reconciliation are possible.
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Glass Bricks
$21.95What does it mean to work for a living?
Told in short prose, Glass Bricks tells the story of Lester’s experience working both traditional and non-traditional jobs. Sometimes raw and often humourous, Lester shares stories about learning to work, working, and moving on. Glass Bricks explores the significance of our basic human right to work in an era where the struggle to find meaningful, full-time employment is all too real.
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Glass Psalms
$15.95Where does the sacred exist in the modern world? What are the rituals of the 21st Century? In Glass Psalms, Jonathan Garfinkel leads us on a search for the answers, taking us from Warsaw to Istanbul; from Saskatchewan to Jerusalem, from the arms of a lover into the palms of the Bible. Sensual, current, political, and above all, humane, Glass Psalms is a meditation on the holy and the unholy–and on the increasingly blurred bounds in between.
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Glengarry
$17.95Composed in three sections, Glengarry is a return in writing to the landscape of rob mclennan’s youth and a headlong rush into the fractures, slippages and buried surfaces of what the text leaves undisclosed to him.
In “glengarry: open field (a postscripted journal)” the poet discovers that “the earth remembers every scratch & scar & step ever took, if you know where to look, how to ask in the way of assembling,” and to ask those questions of the emotional and physical landscapes of one’s youth is to discover that “history is written by everything that history forgets”; is “to half-open a story of what no longer exists”; to beg the question, “is this memory or romanticism”; to run the risk of becoming lost in the very attempt to reconstruct the elements of our past: “there is always the fear here of looking more back than ahead.” What mclennan finds on this quest is nothing more than “a portable violence of heritage & secrets.” What he discovers here, however, is that “we all live in imagined boundaries,” and that “if the story exists, i am living the language of it.”
The short reprise to his memory poem, “whiskey jack,” leads mclennan to ask: “what am I filled with, this quiet / conspiratorial talk, this body / of open wilderness, painted trees / & a history that functions / without markers / save seasons.”
Finally, in “avalanche,” the answer to mclennan’s rhetorical question, “where are you, heart?” appears in both its lyric and its epic voices: “the names of all my broken hearts are only names again” and “there is eventually a silence / there is history.” Amidst this “aesthetic of wonderful destruction” each new poem is “an illusion against destructive slide,” because “what else is human hope but momentarily borne.”
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Glenn Cochrane?s Toronto
$17.95?For a quarter century, Glenn Cochrane, of CFTO’s six o’clock news, left viewers with a smile by scouring the city for the genuine eccentrics and landmark fests that put Hogtown on the map.
From Dave Garrick’s free dry cleaning policy for rainy Canadian National Exhibitions to CPR on an orangutan at Tommy Thompson’s zoo, and from neighbourhood thug Baldy Chard’s grip on Cabbagetown to Sammy Taft’s “milliner to the stars” on Spadina, Cochrane walks the old beat, telling tales and unearthing a history you won’t find in tourist guides or municipal archives.
His roaming recollections include anecdotal “streeters” with the famous and infamous: Eartha Kitt, Sammy Davis Jr., Rich Little, George Burns, Phyllis Diller, Mickey Rooney, Carol Channing, and Paul Hogan – and with the moms and pops of all the best shops. When Mike Myers accepted his place on Canada’s Walk of Fame, he gave a nod to the retired newscaster by sporting “a Cochrane” signature mop top and impersonating Glenn’s comedic catch phrase.
Peter Ustinov said “Toronto is New York run by the Swiss,” but Cochrane shows you a city with chutzpah and flair uniquely its own.
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Glimmer
$22.00Glimmer is an incredibly off-beat and unconventional collection about the human experience – in long short stories alternating with twelve ‘experimental one sentence novels’. The stories are diverse, and deal with strange and surreal relationships.
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Glimpse
$16.95- There is no way to forget any moment, except in its sequence.
- As with the knife, the longer the conversation, the less frequently it comes to a point.
- Do not discount the stupid bravery of the first to arrive.
- The butterfly’s wings are nothing to the overwhelming force of the common.
- Knowledge is what happens when you rob suspicion of doubt.
— from Glimpse
Glimpse is a book of 409 aphorisms, a form that straddles the line between poetry and philosophy, yet is likely more accessible to the general public than either. Each tiny, crafted piece is, in its entirety, not simply a distilled poem or a pre-poem or a poem explained, but rather a crystallized poetic essence — an attempt at getting closer to, and preserving, the poetic moment or epiphany by capturing the first thoughts generated during the impulse to write rather than the thought long held and worked and shaped.
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Glint of Light, The
$32.95Mark Smith, is a sensitive thirty-seven-year-old environmental scientist of mixed race. He tries to come to terms with his mother’s painful death as he goes through the stages of grief. Mark is also reassessing his relationship with his gay twin sister, Maria, a lawyer. After several failed relationships with women in college, Mark, while at his mother’s funeral in Chicago, reconnects with his high school girlfriend, Christy, an artist who paints only self-portraits. He now believes he has finally found true and lasting love, but trouble is brewing. Pulling focus on the cumulative unease and random violence that has gripped American life in recent years, The Glint of Light proves why Clarence Major is one of America’s most beloved novelists.
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Glitter and Fall
$17.00Celebrated poet Di Brandt returns with her latest collection of poetry, Glitter and Fall. Inspired by the Dao de Jing, Brandt’s responses explore the intersections of east and west, male and female, bringing her prairie sensibilities to the second most translated work in the world. The result is an ecstatic poetic experience that is deeply feminine, celebrating a rich culture filled with woman mystics and Divine beings.
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Glitter and Gloom/Éclat et obscurité
$35.00Kashetsky documents domestic life, street life, urban landscapes, nature, and the stories of Holocaust survivors in his affecting, meditative work.
Herzl Kashetsky’s rich, multi-layered works are deep explorations of the human condition. His meticulously rendered portraits, still lifes, and landscapes are intense explorations of identity and place.
This profusely illustrated book features more than 150 drawings selected from Kashetsky’s 119 sketchbooks, ranging from portraits to landscapes, from streetscapes to interiors, from circles to lines to words that fly through the universe. Accompanying the drawings are essays by art writer and Blake critic Allen Bentley about Kashetsky’s use of “the bounding line” as an aesthetic instrument for constructing and deconstructing reality, psychiatrist Ivan Silver about the artist’s lifelong work depicting human emotion through facial expression and his varied studies of the human form, and former director and curator of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery Terry Graff on Kashetsky’s self-portraits as meditations on mortality.
Kashetsky documente la vie domestique, la vie de rue, les paysages urbains, la nature et les histoires des survivants de l’Holocauste dans son travail méditant et émouvant.
Les œuvres riches et multicouches de Herzl Kashetsky sont des explorations profondes de la condition humaine. Ses portraits, ses natures mortes et ses paysages méticuleusement rendus sont d’intenses explorations de l’identité et du lieu.
Ce livre abondamment illustré présente plus de 150 dessins sélectionnés parmi les 119 carnets de croquis de Kashetsky, allant des portraits aux paysages, des paysages de rue aux intérieurs, des cercles aux lignes aux mots qui volent à travers l’univers. Accompagnant les dessins sont des essais par l’écrivain d’art et critique Blake Allen Bentley sur l’utilisation par Kashetsky de “la ligne de demarcation” comme instrument esthétique pour construire et déconstruire la réalité, le psychiatre Ivan Silver sur le travail de l’artiste tout au long de la vie dépeignant l’émotion humaine à travers l’expression faciale et ses études variées de la forme humaine, et ancien directeur et conservateur de la Galerie d’art Beaverbrook Terry Graff sur les autoportraits de Kashetsky comme méditations sur la mortalité.
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Global Governance in Question
$24.95Like many buzzwords, “global governance” is poorly understood. In contrast to most mainstream accounts, this book examines global economic governance as an integral moment of contemporary capitalism. Susanne Soederberg presents a critical insight into its real nature and the interests that it serves. This book begins by asking what has not been discussed in the mainstream debates–and why. Soederberg explores neglected issues including transnational debt and the coercive nature of US aid to “failed states.” Soederberg argues that mainstream understandings fail to engage with the wider contradictions that characterize global capitalism. In consequence, there is no explanation of the changing nature of American empire and capitalist power. Furthermore, Soederberg maintains that global governance acts to normalize increasingly austere forms of capitalist expansion.
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Global Poetry Anthology 2013
$18.00The Global Poetry Anthology is a one-of-a-kind collection of contemporary previously-unpublished poems gathered from all corners of the English speaking world. An international editorial board ensures the present volume’s cosmopolitan palette, and the “blind” selection process guarantees that choices have been made according to poetic calibre alone.
Vehicule Press’s Signal Editions is proud to offer the second volume in the Global Poetry Anthology Series–a rich and exciting mix of established and emerging voices.
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Global Poetry Anthology 2015
$18.00Edited by Gabeba Baderoon, Kate Clanchy, Carolyn Forché, Amanda Jernigan, Anthony Lawrence, Niyi Osundare, Jennifer Rahim, K. Satchidanandan, Michael Schmidt, Bruce Taylor.
The Global Poetry Anthology 2015 is a one-of-a-kind collection of contemporary poems, previously unpublished, and gathered from all corners of the English-speaking world. The international editorial board ensures the present volume’s cosmopolitan palette and the blind selection process guarantees the selections have been made according to poetic caliber alonge.
Véhicule Press’s Signal Editions is proud to offer the third volume in the Global Poetry Anthology series–a rich and exciting mix of established and emerging voices. -
Global Poetry Anthology 2017
$17.95The Global Poetry Anthology is a one-of-a-kind collection of contemporary previously-unpublished poems gathered from all corners of the English speaking world. An international editorial board ensures the present volume’s cosmopolitan palette, and the “blind” selection process guarantees that choices have been made according to poetic calibre alone.
Vehicule Press’s Signal Editions is proud to offer the third volume in the Global Poetry Anthology Series–a rich and exciting mix of established and emerging voices.
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Globalization, Neo-conservative Policies and Democratic Alternatives
$29.95A unique edited collection of new papers by a group of internationally reowned political economists. They evaluate the failures of neo-conservative economic policies around the globe, and explore the alternative budgeting movement as an approach to economic policy making that seeks to replace the prevailing orthodoxy with a democratic alternative. Rigorous in its formulations, accessible in its style, and provocative in its approach, this book is a timely and important anthology of essays.