Metaphor

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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
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
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
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! 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
Ekke Poems Palimpsest Press	Multilingually inflected, Klara du Plessis’ first collection of poetry explores the multiplicity of self through language, occupying a liminal space between South Africa and Canada. A …	Klara du Plessis	88	2018	View
NEW! Granted Poems of Metaphor The Porcupine's Quill	In Granted, Jeffery Donaldson explores ‘a universe of potential relation’, providing a master class in the art of metaphor by exploring in verse the complexities of identity, …	Jeffery Donaldson	116	2022	View
Has The World Ended Yet? Stories Wolsak and Wynn	In Has the World Ended Yet? we start with retired superheroes living in a soulless suburbia where everyone gets lost trying to get home. Then the angels start to fall from the sky. Is it …	Peter DarbyShire	312	2017	View
NEW! Hell Light Flesh Palimpsest Press	In her second collection of poetry, Hell Light Flesh, Klara du Plessis returns with a Dantesque trilogy on family, punishment, and the ferocity and brilliance of creation. Hell Light Flesh drops …	Klara du Plessis	120	2020	View
NEW! Humanimus poems Palimpsest Press	David Huebert’s Humanimus presents a world of soiled nature, of compromised ecology, of toxic transcendence. Raising environmental precarity to the level of mythos, this book implicates …	David Huebert	104	2020	View
NEW! Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century Stories Coach House Books	Featured on CBC’s The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers The debut collection from PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and ‘propulsive storyteller’ (NYT Book Review), with stories that …	Kim Fu	186	2022	View