Through narrative, sound, song, meditation, metaphysical, spiritual, political and visual poems, bissett explores the fragility and incompletion of all narratives.
$17.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 2004
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889225077
| Rights: WORLD
Winner 1993 B.C. Book Prize
Many of the stories in Harry Robinson’s second collection feature the shoo-MISH, or “nature helpers” that assist humans and sometimes provide them with special powers. Some tell of individuals who use these powers to heal themselves; others tell of Indian doctors who have been given the power to heal others.…
$24.95 | 272 pages | Pub. Date: 2013
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Edition # 2
| 2nd edition
9 W × 6 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: SOC002010
ISBN 13: 9780889225046
| Rights: WORLD
In this collection of short humorous essays originally written for the popular media, playwright, novelist and screenwriter Drew Hayden Taylor sends his readers fascinating and exotic postcards from his globetrotting adventures, always on the lookout for the NEWS about aboriginal peoples around the world.
$24.95 | 288 pages | Pub. Date: 2010
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Edition # 1
5.50 W × 8.50 H × 0.74 D inches
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| Bisac: TRV010000
ISBN 13: 9780889226432
| Rights: WORLD
A compact and beautifully designed collection, nicely fleshed out with a broad selection of poems previously published only in journals and periodicals, not to mention its tantalizing sampling of new fare. Many will discover plenty to admire in News and Smoke.
— Toronto Star
$17.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 1999
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889224179
| Rights: WORLD
This fourth novel in the Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal follows Édouard, the fat woman’s brother-in-law, as he explores Paris.
$19.95 | 224 pages | Pub. Date: 2000
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889224353
| Rights: WORLD
1920s Hong Kong. Battling racism and his own reputation, Chinese detective Tommy Lam investigates the deaths of several women.
$19.95 | 192 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
5.5 W × 8.5 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA005000
ISBN 13: 9781772012040
| Rights: WORLD
A crusading socialist and an absolute pacifist, Mildred Osterhout Fahrni walked with J. S. Woodsworth, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. The extraordinary story of one of Canada’s pioneer peacemakers.
$24.95 | 288 pages | Pub. Date: 2001
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: BIO022000
ISBN 13: 9780889224520
| Rights: WORLD
A powerful verbatim play about young women’s resilience through foster care, No White Picket Fence is drawn from a research project involving in-depth interviews.
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2019
5.5 W × 8.5 H × .75 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772012415
| Rights: WORLD
Weyman Chan’s poems elaborate his singular and solitary work on the renaissance of the contemporary lyric form.
$17.95 | 104 pages | Pub. Date: 2009
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Edition # 2
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.26 D inches
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| Bisac: POE023000
ISBN 13: 9780889226265
| Rights: WORLD
The language of poetics emerges into the light of the purely formalist and luminous “definitions” of things and their movements as they engage in the ceaseless metamorphosis of replication in all of their endlessly unfolding possibilities.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2004
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889224995
| Rights: WORLD
His rejection of the limiting conventions of written language allow bissett to turn any linguistic event into a living performance.
$17.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2005
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889225329
| Rights: WORLD
Working-class survivors of the ’60s stage a workers’ sit-down strike. Cast of 9 men.
$17.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 1977
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889221215
| Rights: WORLD
Famous and celebrated since the 1960s for pushing the boundaries of language and representation in the creation of image as a site of both content and context, the world’s leading sound, visual, concrete and performance poet, bill bissett, describes this book as “a novel with connekting pomes n essays.”
$17.95 | 176 pages | Pub. Date: 2011
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.45 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889226715
| Rights: WORLD
In this collection of beautifully crafted, spare, concise and refreshingly understated stories, we accompany Nuri on his quest to understand how servitude transcends slavery; fealty transcends servitude; and community transcends fealty. Amid a sea of dystopian world literatures haunted by the fractious claims of identity politics, Nuri Does Not Exist is an astonishingly charming collection of linked short stories that engages us with the utterly believable innocence of its Utopian vision.
$16.95 | 192 pages | Pub. Date: 2011
5.50 W × 8.50 H × 0.5 D inches
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889226555
| Rights: WORLD