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★ Nocturne: On the Life and Death of My Brother

By Helen Humphreys

Loss is an open wound, a pain so enormous we reflexively turn away from it to keep from breaking. To examine grief would be to welcome the pain, to keep it alive. In her new ... Read More »

April 15, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Sneaky Art

By Marthe Jocelyn

Aimed at kids ages eight and up, Sneaky Art is a craft book with an unusual twist: it encourages children to make public art. Each of the book’s 24 craft ideas is twofold, offering instructions ... Read More »

April 9, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Shadow Girl

By Patricia Morrison

Former child welfare worker Patricia Morrison marks her authorial debut with Shadow Girl, about an 11-year-old girl named Jules whose difficult life is dominated by her unpredictable, alcoholic single father. When Jules asks for a ... Read More »

April 9, 2013

The Hungry Ghosts

By Shyam Selvadurai

“In Sri Lankan myth, a person is reborn as a peréthaya because, during his human life, he desired too much.… The peréthayas that appear to us are always our ancestors, and it is our duty ... Read More »

April 8, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Masham Means Evening

By Kanina Dawson

Kanina Dawson spent 10 months in Afghanistan in 2007, serving as a soldier in the Canadian military. That experience serves as the raw material for her first collection of poetry. The book follows a loose ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

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

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

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