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Personal Effects

By Ronna Bloom

Ronna Bloom, a Toronto writer, psychotherapist, teacher, and erstwhile photographer, collects images and stories from her many lives for her second collection of poetry, Personal Effects. The “personal effects” of Bloom’s poetry are not so ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Southern Stories

By Clark Blaise

There’s a telling scene in “A North American Education,” one of 13 stories in Southern Stories, the first volume in a new series of Clark Blaise’s collected shorter works. The teenaged narrator and his father, ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Wife Tree

By Dorothy Speak

Dorothy Speak’s first novel, The Wife Tree, is probably not the book to read if you’re feeling pessimistic about relations between men and women. While the book ends with Morgan Hazzard, its 70-something heroine, ready ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels