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Exile at Last: Selected Poems

By Chava Rosenfarb; Goldie Morgentaler, ed.

Guernica Editions’ new selected poems of Chava Rosenfarb – who is billed as “one of the most important Yiddish writers of the second half of the twentieth century” – will be many people’s introduction to ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

★ For as Far as the Eye Can See

By Robert Melançon; Judith Cowan, trans.

For as Far as the Eye Can See is Judith Cowan’s translation of Quebec poet and journalist Robert Melançon’s 2004 collection, Les paradis des apparences. The book comprises 144 numbered poems, each consisting of four ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

Red Doc>

There is a moment early on in Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson’s 1998 “novel in verse,” in which Geryon, the red-skinned, winged protagonist, is abandoned by his brother in front of their elementary school. Not ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

White Piano

By Nicole Brossard; Robert Majzels and Erín Moure, trans.

The tone, timbre, and character of instruments change as they age. Amati violins – the oldest in playable condition – produce a depth of sound that comes from being played thousands of times over centuries. ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

The Ends of the Earth

By Jacqueline Turner

Some of the best poetry I’ve ever encountered was not on the page, but heard at a spoken-word night at New York City’s Nuyorican Poets Café. I was making a teenage pilgrimage in the sloshed ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

Letter from Brooklyn

By Jacob Scheier

Some of the best poetry I’ve ever encountered was not on the page, but heard at a spoken-word night at New York City’s Nuyorican Poets Café. I was making a teenage pilgrimage in the sloshed ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

★ The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry

By Valerie Mason-John and Kevan Anthony Cameron, eds.

A single-thread narrative of the African-Canadian experience has long been sewn into the margins of Canadian history, resulting in a legacy of misappropriated cultures and residual resentments that has left generations of black Canadians voiceless. ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Supplying Salt and Light

By Lorna Goodison

Lorna Goodison’s ninth book of poetry stands as a powerful testament to her reputation as one of the Caribbean’s most celebrated poets. Supplying Salt and Light reconstructs the Caribbean colonial quest undertaken by 16th-century Spanish ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Under the Keel

By Michael Crummey

The term “page turner” is more likely to be associated with mass-market thrillers than books of poetry. But in the case of Under the Keel, Michael Crummey’s first collection in a decade, the phrase suits ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

Bog Tender: Coming Home to Nature and Memory

By George Szanto

Since retiring from McGill University, novelist and essayist George Szanto has spent many hours looking out from his writing studio upon the “length and breadth of the bog” that bisects his property on B.C.’s Gabriola ... Read More »

April 1, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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