Journalist and musician Burrows examines the past half-century of rock and popular music from a unique perspective: that of the clubs and ballrooms where the music evolved. Looking at venues such as N
Find out about Native American Indian traditions and customs with Chief Hawah as your guide. He will teach you all you need to know about the weapons and clothes, the names for different native people
This revised version of the Governor General Award–winner sheds light on an unexplored aspect of Shakespeare’s life by looking through the eyes and heart of his wife, Anne Hathaway, with whom he spent
Using examples from plays and playwrights the reader has most likely encountered, The Well Read Play is structured to teach the reader how to identify context, structure, significance, and character.
Flamboya includes over fifty recent photographs taken across Africa—from Cape Town to Kenya to Zambia—that disregard traditional boundaries of genres and tackle the problematic bond between photograph
The Kootenay School of Writing is an internationally renowned poetry group that came of age in the 1980s. It is best known for its contributions to language poetry, the tradition founded in the early
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Vancouver’s Granville Island Public Market, established in 1979, is one of Canada’s largest and most popular public markets. Featuring over fifty food retailers, day vendors, and crafts, the Public Ma
Published on the one hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic (which occurred on the night of April 15, 1912), Impact is an intimate and evocative poetry collection that depicts the tragedy
In recent years the world has borne witness to numerous confrontations, many of them violent, between protesters and authorities at pivotal gatherings of the world’s political and economic leaders. Wh
In this taut, beautifully layered novel by Lambda Literary and Ferro-Grumley Award finalist Cox (Shuck, Krakow Melt), Michael-David is a paranoid actor who feels that fame has ruined him. When a film
"I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave li
"A lyricist at heart, McGriff is a masterful maker of metaphor."?Third Coast"There is majestic beauty in these descriptions, and it is clear that McGriff honors this place as a place?not as mere setti
"Robert Bringhurst may well be the poet we have all been waiting for, one who can reclaim for poetry the dignity, wit, brilliance, and wisdom it has recently appeared to have mislaid. He is without do
"Their verse . . . is strikingly different. Michael's poems are interior, fragmentary, and austere, often stripped down to single-word lines; they seethe with incipient violence. Matthew's are effusiv
"As elliptical and demanding as Emily Dickinson, Valentine consistently rewards the reader."?Library JournalIn her eleventh collection?honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry?Jean Valen
"If McHugh is serious, she's anything but grim; with all her punning, bantering, and mock scolding of herself . . . she brightens the shadowy corners of her world with verbal pyrotechnics."?The New Yo
"Yau tweaks and twists language to express a painful comic vision in which sensual vividness combines with fierce despair."?BooklistJohn Yau engages art criticism, social theory, and syntactical dexte
Honored as one of the "100 Notable Books of 2012" by The New York Times Book Review"The poems in On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths are taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional reflection whi
When we think of something as ?viral,” we often think of the transit of electronic information at an intensified speed and reach. Viral also refers to indiscriminate exchanges, often linked with notio
