Asian Skies is the final book of Ken Norris’s travel trilogy. With Dante as his guide, he has previously left behind the predominantly European terrain of the first book, Limbo Road, only to find hims
Skydive explores the world of dreams and imagination: the universal human desire to push beyond our physical limitations and to fly.Having grown apart after a traumatic and de?ning moment in their you
The idea for this book, says Weyman Chan, is simple---approach the world as metaphor, and it will come to you. Subtitled "notes to myself," hypoderm is a manifesto of observations, intimations and rec
Charles Olson once defined "Muthologos" as "what is said about what is said," which encompasses a breadth of discourse that would define the near and far range of where the poet's mind went in a lifet
Empire of Desire traces western civilization's quest for immortality across a further four centuries - from Moliere to Proust, by way of Voltaire and Rousseau, Goethe and Hegel, Melville and Joyce - e
While readers of theater history will find this biography invaluable, those more interested in the personal story of a writer’s commitment to her craft and discipline will find Pollock’s
It is extraordinary that one can take the measure of how radically cultural sensibilities can change throughout a century by a careful reading of only two texts - in this case Rainer Maria Rilke's Dui
The year is 1967 - Expo - and everyone else in Montreal is waiting for the great day when they can visit the exotic foreign pavilions. For the characters of The Red Notebook, the second in Tremblay's
Based on her own experience as a rape victim, Carmen Aguirre's play The Trigger is a testament to the resilience and triumph of the human spirit and its ability to transcend even the most horrible an
At first glance a classic tale of immigrants to North America, there is something more to Vittorio Rossi's autobiographical A Carpenter's Trilogy than the conflict of a romaticized past confronting th
Young, naive, and inadequately trained, urban health care/social worker Heather Rose flirts with the pilot as she wings her way north in a bush plane, to land in an isolated and remote northern/Nativ
At forty-one, Eddy is in existential crisis. He once had an enviable life ... a wife he adored, a young son, a cozy suburban house surrounded by carefully planted and sculpted gardens, the luxury to p
The Heretic began with a rhetorical question the author posed to himself for a comedy show: "If there is a God, why would He create us? If He's perfect, all knowing, there's nothing He can gain from u
Two-time Governor General’s Award-winning playwright Morris Panych has done with What Lies Before Us the almost unthinkable: he has turned Waiting for Godot into a comedy while simultaneously heighten
The Battle of Batoche is the best-known confrontation between Metis and British soldiers in the Northwest Resistance of 1885. It remains one of Canada’s most emotion-laden memories, chronicling an his
Franz Boas (1858-1942), geographer, linguist, physical anthropologist and ethnologist, is considered the father of modern North American anthropology.The 1895 German publication of Indianische Sagen v
Passionate critic, principled citizen, attentive reader and editor, and energizing teacher ? Roy Miki is all these and more, a poet whose -writing articulates a moving body of work. The two main areas
?I don’t see how a play can be Canadian. I don’t think there are any plays that you could call strictly Canadian ? What does that phrase mean?”Now, thirty-three years after Canadian directors spoke th
Specially edited, updated, revised and rewritten by the author, and for the first time complete in one volume, Great Lakes Suite includes A Trip Around Lake Ontario, first published in 1988, as well a
The first volume of the definitive oeuvre of Daphne Marlatt's poetry exploring the city, feminism, and collaboration. An early member of the avant-garde TISH group, which turned Canadian poetry for th
