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
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 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
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
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
Internationally acclaimed Native playwright Taylor's powerful, haunting and incredibly entertaining stories in Fearless Warriors are a full frontal assault on stereotypes of all kinds--an edifying aff
The Trespassers unfolds over the course of a few weeks in a town in the middle of nowhere?not small enough to be a quaint place or large enough to be in any way an interesting one. They once had a saw
How to Write is an instruction manual for the demise of ownership. A multitudinous dialogue of writers and subjects, words and contexts, it unleashes a cacophony of voices where authors don't own thei
Jack Spicer, the barroom soothsayer of the ?Berkeley Renaissance,” forged a new kind of poetry with Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser in the decade 1945?1955, grounded in their ?queer genealogy” of Arthu
Structured in three parts, On the Material is a meditation on language, geography, socioeconomics and the body, moving from the glut of fossil-fuelled consumer excess to the materiality of a single bo
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
Imperial Canada Inc. sets out to ask a simple question: why is Canada home to more than 70% of the world’s mining companies?Created by the British North America Act of 1867, Canada, rather than turnin
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
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
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
Early in their ethnographic work, Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy were privileged to meet Charlie Mack. Born on the Mount Currie Reserve in 1899, he was a fascinating character and a font of wisdom
In this first-ever insider account of the American Embassy takeover in 1979, Massoumeh Ebtekar sets out to correct 20 years of misrepresentation by the Western media of what the aims of the Iranian st
Donald M. Allen’s anthology The New American Poetry, published by Grove Press / Evergreen in the U.S.A. and the U.K., burst onto the literary scene in 1960 to become the single most important and infl
Published for the first time, David French’s The Riddle of the World remains a classic of the Canadian stage.Stockbroker Ron and ex-priest Steve are two new singles who get together to console themsel
The Unnatural and Accidental Women is a surrealist dramatization of a thirty-year murder case involving many mysterious deaths in the ?Skid Row” area of Vancouver. All the victims were found dead with
