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Rememberer
$12.95Part planner, part art book, Rememberer is full of inspiration and useful to boot! Packed with tools for the creative/disorganized, and featuring micro-fictions exploring themes of (dis)organization, information overload, and general confusion, this book is fun, beautiful, and practical- something to keep on you at all times.
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Reminders on the Path
$20.95Infused with the language of place, the poems in this collection are stepping-stones from the author’s past to her present, from forgetfulness to remembrance, from unknowing to a deep knowing found only through direct experience. Here, the poet is wayfarer: at each step she sees reminders of the ephemeral and the indelible. All serve as guideposts to cross the threshold of the self.
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Remnants, Reveries of a Mountain Dweller
$26.00In Remnants: Reveries of a Mountain Dweller, writer and educator Natalie Virginia Lang offers a vision of Sumas Mountain throughout the seasons to expose the impact of toxic progress on Place. Through poetic prose, Lang meditates on the social, historical, cultural, and environmental losses suffered at the hands of infringement upon natural areas. Remnants ventures into the natural spaces on Sumas Mountain, illuminating the errors of the modern colonial approach to progress and posing philosophical queries for alternate pathways into the future.
With whimsical descriptions and close encounters with creatures, forests, and climate change, Lang brings us an embodied experience of nature and bridges the gap between science, philosophy, academic theories, and the social sphere. Remnantsoffers a shift in the way environment is perceived and celebrates the value of interconnected relationships with and within ecosystems. The result is a fresh lens through which to see our relationship with that natural world, one that inspires us to join an ever-growing conversation about finding balance with our environment, even in the midst of growth.
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Render
$18.95Governor General’s Literary Award finalist
Searing, intimate poems that render a history of trauma, addiction, and recovery through dreams and waking experience.
Render (v.tr.): to submit, as for consideration; to give or make available; to give what is due or owed; to give in return, or retribution; to surrender; to yield. To represent; to perform an interpretation of; to arrange. To express in another language or form; to translate. To deliver or pronounce formally; to cause to become; to reduce, convert, or melt down, by heating.
Journey through dreamscapes in Sachiko Murakami’s intimate and unflinching poetic memoir as she travels the non-linear path of addiction to recovery, how it shifts over time, and what happens when it is translated through poetry. Looking beyond the straightforward, happily-ever-after narrative, Murakami wades through the aftermath of her addiction and questions what happens to trauma when it is put down on the page – and all the ways in which it can be rendered. Recovery is a jagged line, but hope lives and crystallizes in every moment we can mark ourselves “#stillhere.”
Render inhabits the intersection of dreams, memory, and consciousness in a searing exploration of addiction, recovery, and trauma. Open these pages and surrender yourself to Murakami’s tender and ferocious verse.
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Rental Van
$14.00Burnham’s poetry works at the edges of meaning, propriety, and the commodification of language. Combining elements of found text-the overheard, the over-read-he recasts his findings in various combinations that are unique to their presentation on the page. The essentials of language, how people use it-and how it uses them-is Burnham’s main concern. Whether inspiration arises from a 1920s newspaper clipping (poems formulated in the structure of newspaper columns that can be read either horizontally or vertically), as in “98Ruskin”, or grows out of interactions with street youth in poetry workshops in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, “Poverty Pimp”, or is diffused from snippets of conversation on a bus, the nuances of speech-rhythm, inflection, insinuation, the multiplicity of meaning-get filtered down and assimilated with the daily hum and buzz of the immediate world around him. “Chicken Fallujah” and “Rental Van” grew out of a trip to San Francisco during the spring of 2004, when the US Marine assault on Fallujah in Iraq was in full swing. In a text replete with cultural references and riffs on the morphing of language, Burnham shows us how words are powerful implements that are invariably wrenched to accommodate the needs of the user. From gang lingo signifiers to urban iconography, ‘Rental Van’ demonstrates that language is indeed the “nurse and oxygen tent of epistemology.”
“For its part, Clint Burnham’s ‘Rental Van’ largely eschews a stable subject position. Inthis restlessly experimental book, language itself is a rented van, of which we only have temporary use. While this collection offers poems in various formats, including columns, blocks, and giant fonts, it steadily treats language as a kind of mechanism: a set of grammatical rules and lexical options that function quite apart from their content. Bits of narrative and snippets of voices briefly surface before being lost to new contexts: “he drives the suv in the family the blank look of a progressive house dj cd cover next to others just like him nine opposing biceps …” In this sense perhaps Rental Van is more like a bus which, regardless of who is aboard, pushes on to the next stop.” – Canadian Literature
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repeater
$18.00SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD
repeater is a poetic investigation into the coding, function, language, and structure of computer programming. Using the ASCII 8-bit binary code as an acrostic, each lower-case letter of the alphabet is arranged alongside the lines of the title poem. As a result, this poem “programs” an investigation of layered and digitalized language that is coded into the heart of the code itself. Appendixes to this code form supplementary studies, and deviate into additional problems and concepts at the convergence of poetry and computer programming. Ultimately, repeater reveals what happens when the creative variability of poetry is “inputted” into the rigid binaric structure of computer language.
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Repose
$16.95Repose, the striking new work by award-winning poet Adam Getty, is technically flawless, philosophically refreshing and naturally phrased.Repose is an exploration of the definition of cultural freedom; it is a pointed look at an obsession with production, and a comparison of the natural and urban environments that shape our lives. Getty argues that our lives are so tightly controlled by non-negotiable experiences of employment that for the majority of people, employment is anything but a democratic process.Getty’s attempt to find spontaneity and a modern idiom by writing in traditional poetic styles mirrors a cultural attempt to find freedom and vitality. By meticulously studying the poetic techniques of the past, Adam Getty has put new wine into old wineskins: he has found a voice that is erudite, disciplined and, ultimately, free.
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Requiem for the Last Indian
$19.95Unlikely love story of Rosie and Charlie
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Rerouted
$19.95Expect the unexpected in Daniel Bryant’s Rerouted, a collection of linked short stories in which myth, mirth and mayhem are never far away.
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Rescue at Fort Edmonton
$12.95Janey doesn’t want to spend the summer away from her friends in Toronto–and certainly not in Edmonton with the grandmother she hardly knows. But her parents will be away–her mother in Turkey designing housing for earthquake victims, her dad on business trips. Her first surprise is her feisty grandma, who meets her at the airport in her vintage Cadillac, Marilyn. The second comes when she visits the Fort Edmonton historic park and time travels to 1907. The third is learning the real reason she’s in Edmonton. Her grandma is going through cancer treatment and needs someone to be with her.
Janey makes four trips, each to a different period of Fort Edmonton’s history. What draws her into the past? Only on the last trip does she discover the meaning of her adventures–and their crucial connection to her own family. Rita Feutl’s first novel features a deftly handled plot and a wealth of fascinating characters from prairie history.
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Rescue in the Rockies
$12.95Can 14-year-old Janey disentangle her time-hopping dilemma and save not just her own life, but the past lives of others, before it’s too late?
Rescue in the Rockies follows Janey as she is forced to spend the holidays with her grandma – and her grandma’s new beau, Charlie, who has invited along his German grandson, Max – in Banff, Alberta. Janey can’t believe her parents might potentially miss one of the most important holidays of the year and resigns herself to spending her time away from home wandering around the hotel with, of all people, Max, who she bickers with constantly. Getting frustrated with their constant fighting, Janey turns to run away and finds herself, all of a sudden, standing in snow drifts; the hotel has disappeared, and in its place is, well… nothing.
As Janey travels back and forth in time – first to 1883, then, with an unwitting Max along, to an internment camp during World War I and finally the Banff area after the war – she struggles to not only escape the chaotic situations she finds herself in, but to try and figure out what is causing her mysterious disappearances. What do the three places have in common, and can she solve the mystery before the enemy she’s made in the past captures her and Max for good?
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Rescue Me
$26.00Rescue Me takes you behind the scenes of some of North America’s riskiest search and rescue operations. Author Cathalynn Labonté-Smith shares real-life stories as told by volunteer members of Search and Rescue teams, who find the lost and rescue the injured in the most extreme conditions and situations the wilds of North America throw at them. From rescuing avalanche victims in blinding snowstorms, to climbing into vehicles teetering on cliff edges to free passengers from mangled metal or crossing wafer-thin ice to save an injured cross-country skier, these thrilling first-hand accounts will forever change how you prepare for your next outdoor adventure. Labonté-Smith uncovers everyday dangers, from the unexpected risks of familiar urban settings to the extreme conditions in North America’s wilderness. Deserving of a place both on your bookshelf and in your backpack, Rescue Me is a must-read book that could save your life.
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Resilience
$29.95An inspiring book for readers of Sheryl Sandberg and Arlene Dickinson
Lisa Lisson’s life seemed perfect: she had married her high school sweetheart, applied her marketing degree to a position at FedEx Express Canada, and risen to become a vice president (and would ultimately become president) of the company. One night, after putting their four children to bed, her husband, Patrick, marvelled that their lives seemed perfectly happy.
Just a few hours later, everything changed.
One moment Lisa was sleeping beside Patrick, and the next, she was kneeling on the floor beside his unconscious body frantically administering CPR. Patrick had had a massive heart attack and was in a coma, and the doctors were blunt: there was no hope. But for the next two years, Lisa stood by his side and awaited a miracle, while continuing to balance life as a high-powered executive and mother of four.
Part leadership guide, part memoir of loss, and part personal empowerment primer on how to achieve your goals no matter what the universe throws at you, Resilience is an inspirational story about how to rise to the top in a man’s world, triumph over adversity, lead a fulfilling life, and live each day with purpose and gratitude.
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Resilience
$24.00Resilience is the third colouring book made up of works by Anishnaabe artist Jackie Traverse. As with her previous highly successful colouring books,
Sacred Feminine
and
IKWE
, this new book contains both drawings and paintings by Jackie. Resilience honours the Indigenous Peoples who were colonized by and endured the violence of Canada’s child stealing systems — residential schools, the Sixties Scoop and child “welfare.” Some Indigenous people survived those systems; tragically, some did not. Jackie and her art pay tribute to and celebrate the resilience of Indigenous Peoples as they rebuild their communities and lives. Grassroots grandmother Geraldine (Gramma) Shingoose provides a foreword. -
Resilient
$24.99After losing her arms, a young judo teacher gains cybernetic prosthetics. She must use her fists and her kung fu skills to right the wrongs of her husband’s sordid past.
Jolanda O’Bryne had it all… a loving husband, a great career as a Judo instructor, and a heart for helping others. It was that heart that led her to Cambodia where she sought to help clear land mines to save children from death and ruin. It is not until she accidentally trips one of the mines, that she discovers just how resilient she can be. After losing her arms, and gaining cybernetic prosthetics, Jolanda must use her fists and her kung fu skills to right the wrongs of her husband’s sordid military past.
Exploring loss, recovering from a major injury, tragedy, marriage, and redemption, RESILIENT, is a heartfelt action-adventure romp about perseverance, doing what’s right even when the odds are against you and kicking all kinds of crazy ass.
“RESILIENT bets the house and wins.” – Comics Watch
Winner of Sequential Magazine’s BEST COMIC and FAVORITE ARTIST
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Resisting the Anomie
$12.95Resisting the Anomie is the second book of poetry by Kwame Dawes, whose collection Progeny of Air, won Britain’s prestigious Forward Trust Poetry Prize for Best First Book in the fall of 1994.
In Resisting the Anomie, Dawes takes as his subject the anxiety of being far from home, the unease of not belonging, the sense of disconnection from culture and custom. Poems of Jamaica, of Canada, of Haiti; tightly controlled poems, wild and free poems, reggae poems; poems of rejoicing, of faith, love, anger and humour — Resisting the Anomie is a large collection of substantial works by a new and significant writer.