““Get thee to a nouneree.”“ Ophelia had been experiencing noun slippage, (and haven’t we all?) And where is the nouneree? Do you know the way? With heightened and more sophisticated noun awareness, do we come closer to happiness, starring ourselves? Ophelia unfortunately didn’t find the nouneree and perhaps thought it was the name of the river. Can you walk into the same nouneree twice? She jumped in. Lost lovesickness, now called co-dependency.
$16.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 2000
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889224339
| Rights: WORLD
A careful archaeology of the catalogue of innocence assembled by a youthful imagination blossoming during World War II.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2005
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889225145
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These texts are part of Davey’s ongoing work on the use of the sentence as the basic structural unit of poetry—to create poetic texts, as they have always been created, out of the materials of prose. They also constitute another of his forays into cultural commentary—in this case, disclosing how our engagement with globalized culture creates meaning as it “speaks through itself.”
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2010
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6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.23 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889226364
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Short-listed 2019 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Comprising two lines of poetic text flowing along a 114-foot-long map of the Columbia River, this powerful image-poem by acclaimed poets Fred Wah and Rita Wong presents language yearning to understand the consequences of our hydroelectric manipulation of one of North America’s largest river systems. beholden: a poem as long…
$24.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
10.125 W × 8.25 H × .75 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012118
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A composition of daily riffs during an autumn in Denmark and Italy; an album of verbal portraits by a husband and wife who see differently; and a series of tributes to other writers on special occasions.
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 1997
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889223813
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Bread and _Salt_—what you bring for luck to a new house—is a joyous affirmation of vision and courage in hard times.
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 1996
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889223677
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breth presents both new and selected poems from legendary Canadian sound, visual, and performance poet bill bissett. bissett’s innovations have shaped poetry, music, painting, and publishing and have stimulated, provoked, influenced, shocked, and delighted audiences for half a century. This new collection, bissett writes, “shows sew manee threds thru poetree…
$29.95 | 544 pages | Pub. Date: 2019
6 W × 9 H × 1.5 D inches
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| Bisac: LCO006000
ISBN 13: 9781772012262
| Rights: WORLD