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Songs like White Apples Tasted
$14.95Songs like White Apples Tasted
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Songs My Mother Taught Me
$19.95Republished with a new introduction, this is Audrey Thomas’s classic coming-of-age novel about madness, loneliness, despair and escape.
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Songs of Exile
$20.00The poems, arranged chronologically, give an impressionistic account of the poet as an immigrant, in quest of her inner voice and her core self, in the new land. They reveal intense isolation, despite engagement with the so-called political, religious, and cultural disparities between the two countries. The poems tell the story of how the speaker comes closer to her roots by leaving her country behind. They reveal her concern about the Middle East; the negative associations with her country, Iran; her preoccupation with the possibility of reconciliation between the three Abrahamic religions; her concerns about her family back home, and her newly found friends and lover. For the persona in these poems, the political is personal.
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Songs of My Surrenders
$20.00Frenetic, fervent and musical, Songs of My Surrenders is the follow up to Marc di Saverio’s highly acclaimed epic poem Crito Di Volta.
Following in the footsteps of great Modernist and Romantic poets, and yet paving a path that is unmistakably his own, contemporary rebel-poet di Saverio offers a deeply romantic and darkly spiritual array of masterful sonnets, senryu and haiku, alongside select translations from Émile Nelligan, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, and Giacomo Leopardi.
At its heart, Songs of My Surrenders offers an overpowering vision of a decaying civilisation, insisting that the cure is found in passionate and unconditional love, and in urgent spiritual renewal.
A wind of dust blows my tears
Into the daisies of the jetty where I wait
For you continuously; is it true
What they say, that you no longer love
Me? I will wait here, still. I will not move.
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Songs That Remind Us of Factories
$18.95The poems in Songs that Remind Us of Factories explore how weremain connected: to the world outside, to our ideas of home, toeach other, and to ourselves. In their searching, these magpie poemsstrike a balance between wound language and quiet meditation,the arched-brow wisecrack and the emotionally frank gesture. Theresult is an honest and playful sequence of poems that plumb ourmyriad reactions when small wildernesses occasionally come inside.The book’s final section asks whether we may not be tooconnected. They mine a world of rapid technological and commercialgrowth for its poetic potential, focusing on work in call centres,postmodern spaces where the walls of dying suburban malls havebeen repurposed with “fishnets of fibre-op” and “chain gangs ofchopped desktop/Dells”; where “you’re licked/ before the call comeskicking in.”This is a poetry that refuses to stagnate in one mode, wearingall manner of poetic hats while always avoiding drab lyrical sentiment.With a jumpy musicality and a taut line, these poems wanderfar, zeroing in on moments of daily connection while also openingwider their frame of reference to explore the often fractured linkswe have to family and loss, science and religion, the idealized ruraland the newly urban.
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Songs Upon the Rivers
$34.95Before the Davie Crockets, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade and kin networks across the continent. They founded settlements that would become great cities such as Detroit, Saint Louis, and New Orleans, but their history has been largely buried or relegated to local lore or confined to Quebec. In this seminal work, Foxcurran, Bouchard, and Malette scrutinize primary sources and uncover the alliances between early French settlers and voyagers and the indigenous nations. -
Sonia
$24.95After Sonia Cornwall’s father died in 1939, her mother inherited the Onward Ranch and a huge debt. To make the ranch viable, a nineteen-year-old Sonia traded paintbrush for pitchfork, labouring alongside the male ranch hands. But after marrying Hugh Cornwall in 1947, Sonia had time for painting once again. She learned techniques from some of Canada’s most celebrated artists who came to visit the Onward Ranch, and later her home at the Jones Lake Ranch, such as Peter Aspell, Molly Bobak, Jack Hardman, Herbert Siebner, Group of Seven member A.Y. Jackson, Joe Plaskett, Cliff Robinson and Zeljko Kujundic. Tales from renowned Cariboo Chilcotin personalities bring Sonia’s story to life: old-timer Willie Crosina recalls pitchforking hay to seven hundred head of cattle in sixty below Fahrenheit, and filmmaker Peter Elkington describes the now-defunct home veterinary procedures practised by Sonia’s husband, Hugh. Independent and driven, Sonia developed a distinct style that captured the nuances of the rugged interior in oils, mixed media, pastels and watercolours, doing for British Columbia’s Central Interior what Emily Carr did for the Coast. The Honourable Judith Guichon, Lieutenant-Governor of BC, describes Sonia’s paintings as “very real, warm, alive.” Sonia Cornwall died in 2006, but her paintings continue her important legacy of connecting us to rural life and the beauty of simple and unexpected places.
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Sonja & Carl
$19.95Sonja Danychuk, a serious and introverted student with dirt-poor immigrant parents, takes pride in her intellectual and academic achievements—essential skills to help her survive and eventually leave small-town Davenport in Northern Ontario. When her father is cut down by a fatal heart attack, Sonja must find a way to pay for university, so she agrees to tutor Carl Helbig, her high school’s hockey star and NHL hopeful, despite her strong aversion to his jock-like persona.
Carl graduates and heads toward becoming Rookie of the Year for the Boston Bruins, but concussion-prone, he finds himself in the brain trauma unit of the Toronto General. He and Sonja are once again drawn together, but this time the risks are life-threatening. Sonja is faced with a decision that will impact both her and Carl, and their uncertain future.
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Sonnets from a Cell
$22.95*Winner 2024 Raymond Souster Award* Longlisted 2024 Gerald Lampert Award* Winner 2023 Alcuin Award* Poems for and about the incarcerated.
Moving from riots to mall parkades to church, the poems in Bradley Peters’ debut Sonnets from a Cell mix inmate speech, prison psychology, skateboard slang and contemporary lyricism in a way that is tough and tender, that is accountable both to Peters’ own days “caught between the past and nothing” and to the structures that sentence so many “to lose.” Written behind doors our culture too often keeps closed, this is poetry reaching out for moments of longing, wild joy and grace.
Drawing on his own experiences as a teenager and young adult in and out of the Canadian prison system, Peters has written both a personal reckoning and a damning and eloquent account of our violence- and enforcement-obsessed capitalist and patriarchal cultures.
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Sons and Fathers
$18.95When an early-morning phone call from a former childhood friend threatens to derail the political fortunes of a popular PM, his director of communications must dig deep into the past to salvage the present. Part political and literary coming-of-age story, part lyrical meditation on friendship, family, and mortality, Sons and Fathers traces the fortunes of three men who develop their respective ability for manipulating words and people in the long shadows cast by their accomplished fathers. Filled with insights about the nature of politics, journalism, and fatherhood, this semi-autobiographical first novel established Daniel Goodwin as a unique voice in Canadian literature.
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Sooner
$16.95Eschewing prevailing poetic fashion, Sooner reimagines poetry as a kind of cubist fascination, at times even a fascination with fascination itself.
In Sooner, Christakos’s most tender, lucent book to date, we find the delusory spiral reasoning of artistic schools; the fluid politic of desire, gender and domesticity; the recurrent trials of revulsion and arousal – all shined through Christakos’s unique prismatic style to emerge in new, striking and often dissonant syntaxes.
This is the music of a keenly tuned mind listening to all of its stations at once, a poetry of menace and possibility, clear sight and ambiguity, love and darkness, jealousy and light. If to know is to feel precisely, as another poet once suggested, Christakos makes it clear the opposite may be just as true, and that the devil is still in the details: You don’t know what you think or feel. You only think and feel you know, and wave from the window…
Praise for Christakos’s last book, Excessive Love Prostheses:
‘[It] begs the question, Is Margaret Christakos the love child of David Cronenberg and the queen of the confessional poets, Sharon Olds? … Much of this writing shocks for its originality.’
– Georgia Straight
‘Beautifully restrained poetry shot through with sardonic humour and rendered even more interesting by Christakos’s seriously playful manipulations of language.’
– Calgary Herald
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Sophrosyne
$20.00Because fear can transform into confidence, recklessness, the kind of power you can’t imagine until you’re inside it. And then, once you’ve felt it, you can’t feel alive when it’s gone. Sophrosyne. You understood this feeling. I know you did, though you never said it. I saw it, instead, on your face when you danced.
Sophrosyne is one of only four virtues identified by Socrates – four traits which, if lived deeply, define who we are as human beings. But sophrosyne is a concept our culture has long forgotten. “”Self-restraint,’ ‘self-control,’ ‘modesty,’ ‘temperance’ – none of these terms expresses the essence of the word.
In this provocative new novel about desire and restraint in a digital age by acclaimed author Marianne Apostolides, 21-year-old Alex is consumed by the elusive problem of sophrosyne for reasons he cannot share with others. While Alex’s philosophy professor believes studying it will help shed light on the malaise of our era, Alex hopes it will release him from his darkly disturbing relationship with his mother. As he attempts to uncover his mother’s truth, Alex is drawn inside an amorphous, indefinable undercurrent of love and violation. Only through his lover, Meiko, does Alex open into a new understanding of sophrosyne, with all its implications.
Reminiscent of Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, Sophrosyne asks readers to surrender themselves to the book’s logic and language. Infused with a sensuality balanced by its intellect, Sophrosyne reads like “the music’s rhythm… soft like wax and supple, warm,” pulsing through your veins.
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Sorcerer’s Last Words, The
$10.95Sorcerer’s Last Words, The
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Sorel Etrog
$35.00Etrog’s work dots the urban landscape in Toronto and many other urban centres in Canada and shows an overriding concern for the human body’s transformation in an increasingly mechanized world.
Sorel Etrog (1933-2015) is a renowned Canadian sculptor and painter. He left his native Romania for Israel in 1950, where he studied at the Tel Aviv Art Institute. From Tel Aviv, he moved to New York and in 1963 to Toronto.
Etrog represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 1966. He created major public commissions for Expo 67, the Sun Life Centre, the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Olympic Park in Seoul, Korea, and he designed the Canadian Film Awards’ statuette (originally known as the “Etrog”). His drawings and watercolours explore mechanics and biology: mechanistic bodies, wrench-shaped hands, pure machines, blends, labyrinths, and monsters.
Sorel Etrog: Five Decades was published in 2013 to accompany the last major retrospective exhibition of his work. It includes his archetypal sculptures as well as drawings, paintings, book illustrations, and prints, as well as images from his rarely seen film, Spiral. The book also includes texts by Ihor Holubizky and critics Gary Michael Dault and Florian Rodari, as well as Marshall McLuhan, Sir Philip Hendy, Theodore Allen Heinrich, and William J. Withrow that explore the depth and range of his work.
Etrog’s work is included in major collections worldwide, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris; the Museo Novecento, Florence; and the Tate Gallery, London.
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Sorry About the Fire
$19.95A CBC Books’ Poetry Collection to Watch for in Spring 2024
I wanted a good bewildering, / down deep, / as the keep of a castle.
With a voice as ungovernable and determined as Prometheus—who stole fire from Zeus only to face dire consequences—Colleen Coco Collins’ debut poems are daring dispatches from beyond the margins: light-filled flares sent up from the edge of language, sentience, land, and story. Drawing on all of her multidisciplinary enamorations and rendered through the triple vision of her Irish, French, and Odawa heritage, Sorry About the Fire introduces not just a poet, but a stunningly original sensibility.
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Sosi
$19.95In a world of 24-hour news coverage and global forces like the U.N., genocides still happen, often unchecked. But nearly a century ago, one group, the Armenians, was nearly wiped out in a systematic coup that became the blueprint for Hitler, who said to his generals, “Go, kill without mercy men, women and children of the Polish race or language. Only in this way will we get the living space we need. Who, after all, remembers the annihilation of the Armenians?” Zeyneb Sosi Arta is only seven years old when she is stoned by a group of village children, who taunt her with cries of “infidel.” This incident spurs her parents to move her to the safey of the city to stay with the Reijskinds, sympathetic friends. After all, though Sosi?s father is Turkish, her mother is Armenian, and although many years have passed, they haven?t forgotten the systematic extermination of Armenians at the hands of the Turks that began in 1915. Before it was over in 1923, 1.5 million Armenians would be dead. Their homes and wealth appropriated, they were rounded up, deported, tortured and murdered in concentration camps or shipped to the desert of Der Zor to die of starvation. The genocide was planned and directed by the Young Turks under the cover of war and it was months before any news filtered back to the cities about the fate of those who had disappeared. In the safety of the Reijskinds? home, Sosi waits in vain for her parents to come back for her; only to discover they have been murdered by their own neighbours. Sosi is raised by the Reijskinds, and later moves with them to Jerusalem, where she meets a Ara, a radical young Armenian photographer. Sosi becomes pregnant with Ara?s child, and they subsquently wed. But Ara is desperate to go to Turkey, to force the Turks to admit to their extermination of his people, to document the disappearance of the Armenians. Ara disappears himself. Sosi moves to Montreal with their daughter Sammi, where eventually Ara rejoins her after being found in a Turkish prison by another relative who pays for his release. The realities of war, genocide and global immigration and their impact on susequent generations are revealed through the story of Sosi: a survivor, a traveller, a mother, an Armenian.