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The Lucy Doll

By Diane Jarvis Jones

Lucy, a charmingly photogenic doll, narrates this account of the physical abuse a nine-year-old girl suffers at the hands of mean-spirited children. Jones’s books are consciousness-raising material. This one is endorsed by Meg Hickling, an ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Frame of the Book

By Erin Mouré

In recent years, Erin Mouré’s poetry has had the reputation of being a kind of playground for grad-school students. As the title suggests, her eighth book of poetry, A Frame of the Book, is heavily ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Raucous

By W.H. New

W.H. New, who holds the Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies at the University of British Columbia, has written more than 30 books including Science Lessons, his first book of poems, which was ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Anthem

By Helen Humphreys

Novelist and poet Helen Humphreys’ fourth collection of poetry is an eloquently written, passionate book about language, desire, love, and indecision.In “For Jackie, Who Will Never Read This,” Humphreys details the importance of speech outside ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Carrying the Shadow

By Patrick Friesen

What’s poetry good for? Neither preferred nor common, it has no abbreviation on the NASDAQ exchange. But Patrick Friesen’s Carrying the Shadow shows how poetry still holds an uncontested patent in speaking of death. It’s ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry