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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! A Devil Every Day Palimpsest Press	Through a kaleidoscope of philosophy, critical theory, and folk theology, A Devil Every Day surveys the terrain where white Western culture blends into pure evil. Twisting into aphorisms, inner …	John Nyman	88	2023	View
A Skeletal Wand Palimpsest Press	In her finest collection of poetry to date, Ruth Roach Pierson marshals her considerable expository powers to explore personhood, paranormal phenomenon, and mortality. A Skeletal Wand reaches out …	Ruth Roach Pierson	104	2018	View
A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty Bowl Palimpsest Press	In poems that could double as paintings, M. Travis Lane harnesses the brush strokes of language to form a bridge between the artist and natural world in A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty Bowl. This is …	M. Travis Lane	88	2019	View
Al Pittman Collected Poems Breakwater Books	The definitive Pittman collection. From the publication of his first collection, The Elusive Resurrection, in 1966, to his death in 2001 at the age of sixty-one, Al Pittman stood as one of the …	Al Pittman	376	2015	View
NEW! All the People Are Pregnant Goose Lane Editions	"So what if I left language by the pier. Metaphor’s a raft," declares Andrew DuBois as he leads readers through a fractured past and present — from "slummy memories of …	Andrew DuBois	80	2021	View
An Unorthodox Guide to Wildlife Breakwater Books	Katie Vautour’s extraordinary debut collection is an eclectic examination of the space where humans and animals meet, where migratory patterns encounter commercial flights, and birds appear …	Katie Vautour	84	2019	View
Anything but the Moon Goose Lane Editions	George Sipos is acutely aware that life, in its strangeness and beauty, will always elude whatever he can say about it. Exploring northern British Columbia, the mountains, harsh winters and human …	George Sipos	104	2005	View
NEW! As Far As You Know Poems House of Anansi Press	From one of the defining poets of his generation, a new collection that plumbs the depth of beauty, history, responsibility, and love. As Far As You Know, acclaimed poet A. F. Moritz’s …	A. F. Moritz	144	2020	View
Autobiographical Fictions Palimpsest Press	As much poet as paparazzo, Maurice Mierau fixes his sights on the complexities of popular culture. Autobiographical Fictions is both questioning and confident, a book that explores delusion as a …	Maurice Mierau	72	2015	View
NEW! Boat Coach House Books	From the author of The Baudelaire Fractal, a poetry classic, with new work In 2004, boldly original poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook, Rousseau’s Boat, poems culled from years of …	Lisa Robertson	177	2022	View
NEW! Buffalo is the New Buffalo Stories Arsenal Pulp Press	Powerful stories of "Metis futurism" that envision a world without violence, capitalism, or colonization. "Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among …	Chelsea Vowel	347	2022	View
Caribou Run Goose Lane Editions	At one moment, a pure abstraction; at the next, an incontrovertible presence of hooves, antlers, and fur. The beating heart of this assured debut by Richard Kelly Kemick is the Porcupine caribou …	Richard Kelly Kemick	96	2016	View
NEW! Ceaseless Rain Palimpsest Press	Ceaseless Rain is a meditation on grief. It is a carnival ride where the floor drops out, it is a ghost apple, it is the bones left in the birdbath by crows. This is where the redemptive power of …	Dorothy Mahoney	64	2020	View
Description of the World Wolsak and Wynn	A new poetry collection from the Giller Prize–winning author of The Sentimentalists and Quartet for the End of Time. In The Description of the World Johanna Skibsrud brings us to the edges …	Johanna Skibsrud	96	2016	View
Different Beasts Stories Goose Lane Editions	Winner, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Speculative Fiction A bear runs amok in a luxury hotel. A daily swim at the local pool becomes a question of life or death. The champion of a border wall …	J.R. McConvey	210	2019	View
NEW! Dissonance Engine Book*hug Press	Dissonance Engine is an exploration of time, cognition and loss; the intersection of dream and alternate reality amidst myriad systems of control. The collection probes these themes through a …	David Dowker	99	2022	View