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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse more books like this

by Anne Carson

This novel in verse by poet Anne Carson is based on the ancient Greek legend of a winged monster named Geryon. Here, he discovers photography and becomes fascinated with it, and with a young man named Herakles. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.

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Dance Me to the End of Love

Dance Me to the End of Love more books like this

by Leonard Cohen, Linda Sunshine (Editor), Henri Matisse (Photographer)

The perfect book for art lovers, song lovers, and other lovers as well, this evocative, lyrical tribute to love and its healing, restorative powers, is complemented by 21 diverse works by Henri Matisse, including oils, line drawings, paper cut-outs, book illustrations, and linocuts.

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Jelly Belly more books like this

by Dennis Lee

A collection of humorous poems about all sorts of unusual people and situations.

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Eunoia

Eunoia more books like this

by Christian BOK

Each section of this collection of rigorously formal poems is named for a different vowel, and the words therein contain only the vowel named. This volume was nominated for a 2002 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize.

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The Elders Are Watching

The Elders Are Watching more books like this

by David Bouchard, Roy Henry Vickers (Illustrator)

A celebrated poet combines his words with the art of Roy Henry Vickers to celebrate the wonders of Canada's West Coast.

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The Journals of Susanna Moodie

The Journals of Susanna Moodie more books like this

by Margaret Atwood, Charles Pachter

This 1970 volume, illustrated with silkscreen prints, is a feminist epic based on the autobiographies of a famous Canadian pioneer woman, who immigrated from England to the backwoods north of Toronto in the 1830s.

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The Haiku Anthology

The Haiku Anthology more books like this

by Cor Van Den Heuvel

Originally a Japanese form that flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries, haiku has seen a growth of popularity in the English language since the 1980s. A haiku is a short poem recording the essence of a moment keenly perceived in which Nature is linked to human nature. Its attraction lies in its ability to create in the mind of the reader an ...

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20th-Century Poetry & Poetics

20th-Century Poetry & Poetics more books like this

by Gary Geddes

The fourth edition of this ground-breaking anthology provides an in-depth portrait of fifty-nine poets from Britain, the United States, and the Commonwealth. Where possible, the poems are placed within the significant context of the poets own views on their work; in addition there are useful biographies and comments on the poets, who include Auden ...

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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos more books like this

by Anne Carson

A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 "tangos" of narrative verse, informed by the poet's own sensibility. This is a work that explores the oldest of lyrical subjects - beauty, desire, love, betrayal - with freshness and power.

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The Best of Robert Service: Illustrated Edition

The Best of Robert Service: Illustrated Edition more books like this

by Robert W Service

"A deluxe edition of the works of Service, with stunning period photographs of the Yukon territory he immortalized through his incomparable verses. Photos are from the famed Kinsey collection, taken in"

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Best of Robert Service

Best of Robert Service more books like this

by Robert Service

This new and revised edition of poems about the men and women of the North features the most loved ballads by Robert Service, and is illustrated with lively art by Marilen Van Nimwegen. While living in Whitehorse, Robert Service wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee, and other well-known poems. He wrote and published into his mid-eighties. He was ...

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The Journals of Susanna Moodie: Poems more books like this

by Margaret Atwood

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Pieces of Map, Pieces of Music more books like this

by Robert Bringhurst

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Palace of the End more books like this

by Judith Thompson

Winner of the 2008 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize With its emphasis on the human voice and power of the soul in the midst of a destructive war in Iraq, each of the three monologues in this book is a riveting and brilliantly portrayed indictment of one of the contemporary world's worst conflicts.

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Garbage delight more books like this

by Dennis Lee, Frank Newfeld

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Dinosaur Dinner more books like this

by Dennis Lee, Debbie Tilley (Illustrator)

A collection of poetry spanning such subjects as food, school, mud puddles, and rainy days. Color illustrations accompany the text.

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Best Tales of the Yukon: Including the Classic "Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee" more books like this

by Robert W Service, Tam Mossman (Preface by)

"In 1904, the Canadian Bank of Commerce transferred teller Robert W. Service to the Yukon Territory. Soon, he was famous as the poet who chronicled the Klondike gold rush and the savage beauty of the f"

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Men in the Off Hours more books like this

by Anne Carson

The poems in this volume blend the classical rigor and disciplined thought of scholarly work with the unpredictable turns and loops of postmodern life, setting Thucydides and Virginia Woolf in conversation, for instance, or putting Catullus in the driver's seat of a Red Cross ambulance.

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Haiku Moment Haiku Moment: An Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku an Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku more books like this

by Bruce Ross (Editor)

Haiku Moment is tbe most comprehensive volume of contemporary North American haiku written in English. It contains over 800 haiku by 185 poets.

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Dyssemia Sleaze more books like this

by Adeena Karasick

This is a book about walls: defensive walls that keep people out -- the garrison; and the inclusive walls that keep people in -- paradise.

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In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae more books like this

by L Granfield

A tribute to the well-known War World I poem, its creator and the poppy which has come to signify remembrance of the fallen in battle. The author interweaves lines of the poem with information about the war, and accounts of poet-doctor John McCrae's experiences in the field are also included.

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Gardening in the Tropics more books like this

by Olive Senior

This work contains a rich Caribbean world in poems offered to readers everywhere. Olive Senior's rich vein of humour can turn wry and then sharp in satire of colour-consciousness, class-consciousness, and racism. But her predominant tone is the verbal equivalent of a pair of wide-open arms. This collection goes down deep, drawing on presences and ...

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The habitant and other French-Canadian poems more books like this

by William Henry Drummond

William Henry Drummond (1854-1907) was an Irish-born Canadian poet. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom in 1898 and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1899. His works include: The Habitant and Other French- Canadian Poems (1897), Phil-O-Rum's Canoe and Madeleine Vercheres (1898), Montreal in ...

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Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments more books like this

by Elizabeth Bishop, Alice Quinn (Editor)

This revelatory and moving selection brings readers into the poet's laboratory, showing the initial provocative images that moved her to begin a poem, illustrating terrain unexplored in the work published during her lifetime, and revealing the kind of artistic resolution she exercised.

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The Ice Cream Store: Poems more books like this

by Dennis Lee, David M. McPhail (Illustrator)

In this kid-pleasing poetry collection, Dennis Lee delves into the special and imaginative world of children. Young readers will enjoy reading poems that address their concerns and curiosities, from digging holes to foreign lands to searching for the perfect pet. Full color.

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