First-ever publication of visual works by the renowned Canadian poet Phyllis Webb, who died in November, 2021. With seventy-four paintings and eighty collages.
$59.95 | 152 pages | Pub. Date: 2022
10.25 W × 8.25 H × .59 D inches
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| Bisac: ART017000
ISBN 13: 9781772014747
| Rights: WORLD
Boas, Teit, Hill-Tout, Barbeau, Swanton, Jenness, the luminaries of field research in British Columbia, are discussed, and their work in Indian folklore evaluated in this comprehensive survey of myth-collecting in B.C.
$19.95 | 224 pages | Pub. Date: 1982
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: SOC021000
ISBN 13: 9780889221895
| Rights: WORLD
Traces the development of Poet laureate Bowering’s many writings through four decades.
$39.95 | 404 pages | Pub. Date: 1990
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: LIT004080
ISBN 13: 9780889222632
| Rights: WORLD
Examines the writings of Steve McCaffery and bpNichol, with a special focus on their collaborative work as the Toronto Research Group (TRG).
$17.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 1999
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
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| Bisac: LIT004080
ISBN 13: 9780889224230
| Rights: WORLD
Charles Olson had many correspondents over the years, but Frances Boldereff, a book designer and typographer, Joyce scholar, and single working mother, embodied a dynamic complexity of interlocutor, muse, Sybil, lover, critic, and amanuensis. After Completion: The Later Letters of Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff follows on from an earlier…
$24.95 | 256 pages | Pub. Date: 2014
6 W × 9 H × .5 D inches
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| Bisac: LCO015000
ISBN 13: 9780889227064
| Rights: WORLD
Almost Islands is a powerfully introspective memoir of the author’s friendship with legendary Canadian poet Phyllis Webb – now in her nineties and long enveloped in silence – and his regular trips to see her. It is an extended meditation on literary ambition and failure, poetry and politics, choice and…
$24.95 | 256 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
5.5 W × 8.5 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: BIO007000
ISBN 13: 9781772012071
| Rights: WORLD
Portraits of the writers, musicians, artists and social activists who influenced the life and work of Blais in the 1960s.
$19.95 | 208 pages | Pub. Date: 1996
6.00 W × 8.00 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: BIO007000
ISBN 13: 9780889223585
| Rights: WORLD
An analysis of the controversy surrounding the death of a Native child in Alert Bay, British Columbia.
$29.95 | 280 pages | Pub. Date: 1987
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: MED050000
ISBN 13: 9780889222465
| Rights: WORLD
Essays in honour of the founding director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.
$29.95 | 512 pages | Pub. Date: 2001
7.00 W × 10.00 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: LIT006000
ISBN 13: 9780889224575
| Rights: WORLD
As Fred A. Reed travels through the Middle East, the Balkans and Asia Minor, he concludes that Turkey’s Islamists are reappropriating the culture and beliefs that 70 years of secular fundamentalism have been unable to eradicate.
$18.95 | 320 pages | Pub. Date: 1999
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: TRV012000
ISBN 13: 9780889224261
| Rights: WORLD
Essays that explore the ways in which poetry, visual art and critical practices encounter “the long present neoliberal moment” of the imperialist agenda of globalization.
$29.95 | 304 pages | Pub. Date: 2009
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Edition # 1
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.75 D inches
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| Bisac: LIT014000
ISBN 13: 9780889226128
| Rights: WORLD
Short-listed 2015 Cole Foundation Prize for Translation (Quebec Writers’ Federation Awards)
Poet, novelist, and critic Madeleine Gagnon reflects on life at the centre of Quebec literary arts by re-examining the influences of her early life: a pious childhood in a large, rural Catholic family, a rebellious youth, and intellectual development as a feminist. A central theme is Gagnon’s struggle for women’s equality and her refusal to be categorized by her gender.
$22.95 | 232 pages | Pub. Date: 2015
5.5 W × 8.5 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: BIO007000
ISBN 13: 9780889228962
| Rights: WORLD