Post-Modernism
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Title & Subtitle | Contents | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Shared UniverseNew and Selected Poems 1995-2020 |
“An invaluable aid in this time of troubled spirits, muddled truths, and convoluted thinking.” — Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo Paul Vermeersch has reinvented the “new and … | Paul Vermeersch | 244 | 2020 | View |
Smaller Hours |
Stately and majestic, yet scuffed with wear and disillusion, the poems of Smaller Hours mount the sky like columns and fora of some archaic ruin. Through these ancient halls, Kevin Shaw tracks … | Kevin Shaw | 80 | 2017 | View |
NEW! Smog Mother |
The strongest collection yet from a poet writing at the height of his powers. In Smog Mother, John Wall Barger asks: What is a poet without a home? Over and over he finds answers in the joy of … | John Wall Barger | 104 | 2022 | View |
Soft Power |
Lyrical yet shot through with experimental and political veins, the poems in Soft Power are engaged with both the here-and-now of a world on the brink and the hope of something better, a planet … | Stewart Cole | 88 | 2019 | View |
Stranger |
In Stranger, Nyla Matuk’s provocative, unabashedly sensual voice leads us to revelations about how our lives are increasingly disembodied by social media’s flattened, outward identity … | Nyla Matuk | 90 | 2016 | View |
NEW! tendpoems |
Visceral and playful, tend reflects the intimate awkwardness of modern life. Hargreaves’ latest collection explores feelings of being distanced from loved ones, physically and emotionally; … | Kate Hargreaves | 94 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Test Piece |
Ways of Seeing meets Mary Ruefle in these visual-art-inflected poems Though they started from Sheryda Warrener’s impulse to see herself more clearly, the poems in Test Piece ended up … | Sheryda Warrener | 82 | 2022 | View |
The Drunken, Lovely Bird |
Winner, American Independent Publishers Poetry Prize Sue Sinclair writes in a lyrical tradition that subverts the stereotype of "Canadian women’s" poetry while still playing with … | Sue Sinclair | 92 | 2004 | View |
The Glassblowers |
George Sipos hears the frog song at two in the morning and wonders if it is passion that drives it or the loneliness of spring. In another poem, the wet leaves of fall are described in language … | George Sipos | 104 | 2010 | View |
NEW! The Invisible World Is in DeclineBook IX |
The stunning conclusion to a 40-year poetic project In the tradition of earlier modernist long poems like Ezra Pound’s Cantos and bp Nichol’s The Martyrology, The Invisible World Is … | Bruce Whiteman | 98 | 2022 | View |
The Pig Headed SoulEssays and Reviews on Poetry and Culture |
The Pigheaded Soul presents a series of witty, intelligent, and sometimes controversial essays in which talented newcomers and avowed masters alike find themselves within the literary crosshairs … | Jason Guriel | 276 | 2013 | View |
The Suicide’s Son |
“I believe in the power of original sin,” writes James Arthur, “in the wound/ that keeps on wounding.” Set against a backdrop of political turmoil in the United States, … | James Arthur | 89 | 2019 | View |
NEW! The Sunday Book |
“A poignant examination of aging and loss.” In The Sunday Book, Michael Trussler uses memoir to excavate and explore a range of inner lives, all lived at different speeds. With essays touching on … | Michael Trussler | 216 | 2022 | View |
These are not the potatoes of my youth |
Shortlisted, Trillium Book Award for Poetry and Gerald Lampert Memorial Award In this confessional debut collection, Matthew Walsh meanders through their childhood in rural Nova Scotia, later … | Matthew Walsh | 96 | 2019 | View |
NEW! Vox HumanaPoems |
Vox Humana (Latin for “human voice”) is driven by a sense of political urgency to probe the ethics of agency in a world that actively resists the participation of some voices over … | Adebe DeRango-Adem | 110 | 2022 | View |
Way Upstories |
In the thirteen stories that comprise Way Up, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer’s canvas stretches from downtown Toronto to isolated farms, from the Canadian Shield to Nova Scotia and Europe, and even … | Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer | 190 | 2003 | View |