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The definitive survey of an essential feminist poet.In June 2019, Nicole Brossard was awarded the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Poetry Trust. Rarely has a prize been so richly deserved. For five decades she has writing ground-breaking poetry, fiction, and criticism in French that has always been steadfastly and unashamedly feminist and lesbian.Avant Desire moves through Brossard's body of work with a playful attentiveness to its ongoing lines of inquiry. Like her work, this reader moves beyond conventional textual material to include ephemera, interviews, marginalia, lectures, and more. Just as Brossard foregrounds collaboration, this book includes new translations alongside canonical ones and intertextual and responsive work from a variety of artist translators at various stages of their careers.Through their selections, the editors trace Brossard's fusion of lesbian feminist desire with innovation, experimentation, and activism, emphasizing the more overtly political nature of her early work and its transition into performative thinking.Devotees of Brossard will be invigorated by the range of previously unavailable materials included here, while new readings will find a thread of inquiry that is more than a mere introduction to her complex body of work. Avant Desire situates Brossard's thinking across her oeuvre as that of a writer whose sights are always cast toward the horizon.

I'm ill-equippedfor this. I sitby a fake fireplacethat frames a real flame.I've been crossedby two crows today.Multi-vectored, Rogers's poems hum with life and tension, their speaker poised as mother, seer, reporter and daughter. They speak of loss and cold realities (misplaced charms of luck, a tour of an assisted-living facility, coins thrown into Niagara Falls). They also interweave dreams and visions: "e;O Lion, I am / an old handmaiden; I will not lay the pretty baby in the lap / of the imposter."e; Simple but evocative, at once strange and plain, Rogers's poems of address ricochet off the familiar "e;Dear Reader"e; or Dickinson's "e;Dear Master"e; ... Rogers's poems provide instructions for what to leave, what to take and what to fight. They act as selvage between the vast mother-ocean the mem of memory and the fabric we make of the uncertain in-between. HoaNguyen,The Boston ReviewHow can we live with the kind of pain that worsens each day? Dear Leaderexplains through bold endurance, enumerated blessings and the artistic imagination. By pasting stark truths over, or under, images of strange, compelling beauty, Rogers creates a collage, a simulation of the human heart under assault, bleeding but unbroken. Part Orpheus, part pop-heroine who can paint the daytime black, all, an original act of aesthetic violence and pure, dauntless, love. Lynn CrosbieIn Dear Leader, Damian Rogers re-invents the same-old poetic lyric to offers us one-of-a-kind insights on childbirth and party bars, rolling blackouts and old rock standards. Here, what looks at first like familiar language always reveals itself to be a rare mineral. And thats the magic: this is a poetry that refuses to be staged or to succumb to clich or mannerism, insisting on celebration and condemnation, caution and cosmic vibrations. Say youre a poet, Rogers advises us, tongue-in-cheek, Maybe you mean / Hi, I have a lot of feelings. Striking that balance between one-liners and mourning is no small feat.Trillium Award Jury CitationPraise for Paper Radio: Paper Radio jumped out at me and I cant say why, but thats what you want poetry to do, and I never want to say why. Because its real and talking to me. Because its bloody and horrifying beauty. Its the Clash and Buckminster Fuller, Auden and Bowie. Bob HolmanOriginally from the Detroit area, Damian Rogers now lives in Toronto where she works as the poetry editor of House of Anansi Press and as the creative director of Poetry in Voice. Her first book, Paper Radio, was nominated for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award.

From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it.

A joy ride set on a crash course with the past.

W. B. Yeats meets Gregg Araki at a gay bar.

POP takes an uncommon perspective on modern poetic traditions, combining deft lyricism with visual poems for a playful romp.

"A woman must emerge from the virtual world she's created to confront her flesh-and-blood past and family."--

In his fifth poetry volume, American poet Andrew Zawacki expands his inquiry into the possibilities and dangers of a 'global pastoral,' exploring geographies alternately enhanced and flattened out by digital networks, international transit, the uneven and invisible movements of capital, and the unrelenting feedback loops of data surveillance, weather disaster, war. Wheeling interference patterns of systems of meaning, from radio signals and runway signage to foreign phrases and babytalk, interact with the 'langscape' of English, while punctuation is retrofitted as coding. In creating a politically committed lyric form that opens all the dimensions of language - sonic and semantic, syntactic and graphic - Unsun sustains an oblique conversation with Paul Celan's Fadensonnen, Chris Marker's Sans soleil, and Michael Palmer's Sun. Loosely structured by the settings of analog photography, the book features a suite of the author's black-and-white, large format images alongside an adaptation of Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei and a series of fractured sonnets for - and from - his young daughter.

A whimsical and misanthropic imagining of Emily Dickinson's life

A classic feminist novel for a new generation, resonating in a world of increasing radicalization.

Six diverse women's voices merge into one devastating (and funny) portrait of modern feminism.

The debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson, in which a poet realizes she's written the works of Baudelaire.

Poems about modern romance by a modern romantic

Grappling with queerness and trauma from Alberta to Brooklyn, powering through body, sex, and gender to hit free open roads

A novel about silence, The Country Will Bring Us No Peace sneaks the brutality of grief into your imagination

bronchia thinkform a bombsightthink periosteum singingparticle falconry workpiecetwo lowcut hills seekingwhat stone isfor bodyis herdalliterationsNight & Ox is a long poem working its interruptions to a degree where it's broken by the will to live. A poem that invokes expansive loneliness, where the poet's emotional response is to endure. A crushed line of astral forms and anatomy in perpetual remove; it is a poem that nurtures vulnerability: some soft-footed embryo sounds against language’s viscera. Night & Ox possesses a feral minimalism for those too tired and too frantic with joy to cope with narrative.‘A fierce, ladderlike cri de cœur – at times a cri de cur – Night & Ox pulses with sawblade nocturnes that gnaw through the very rungs on which they’re wrung. One part Jabberwocky-talkie, one part fatherhood ode, the poem seeks a threshold, where the “mondayescent” gives way to ardour, splendour, even love. Scott is a cosmoglot of the throat’s ravine, and this is his manic, pandemonic article of faith.’ – Andrew ZawackiPraise for Blert:‘Scott takes us down to the basement of words, where sound and rhythm rule, and poets learn their craft. Blert is a strange and gorgeous work of linguistic materialism.' – Dennis Lee

Deliciously wicked satires about local and international celebrities, the poems in Portable Altamont evince an irrepressible grasp of the zeitgeist, its machinations and manipulations, its possibilities and puerility. Who other than artist and raconteur Brian Joseph Davis could have imagined Margaret Atwood as a human beatbox, Jessica Simpson applying for arts grants or the Swedish Chef reciting T. S. Eliot? Davis uses every literary form available to revel in and rearrange pop culture. Even the index turns into a short story about Luke Perrys descent into a shadowy underworld of Parisian intellectuals and terrorists.A word of warning: this book is a complete and utter fiction. Philip Roth is not David Lee Roths brother. Reese Witherspoon is not a Communist cell leader, and Don Knotts has never been a New Age guru. The stuff about Nicole Richie, however, is absolutely true.Portable Altamont is that rare book that is both incendiary and compulsively readable. Get to it before the lawyers do!

Two of the twentieth century's greatest art provocateurs, avant-gardists, and bohemians finally connect in the poetry of Suzanne Zelazo.

The books, the loves, and the conscience of J. Robert Oppenheimer: a novel about the man who invented the atomic bomb.

The story of how Toronto came out as one of North America's leading hubs of queer activism and culture.

A poem-by-poem revisioning and engagement with Sylvia Plath's Ariel and the towering mythology surrounding it.

No two curries are the same. This Curry asks why the dish is supposed to represent everything brown people eat, read, and do.

The word "e;magyarzni"e; (pronounced MAUDE-yar-az-knee) means "e;to explain"e; in Hungarian, but translates literally as "e;make it Hungarian."e; This faux-Hungarian language primer, written in direct address, invites readers to experience what it's like to be "e;made Hungarian"e; by growing up with a parent who immigrated to North America as a refugee. In forty-five folk-art visual poems each paired with a written poem, Hajnoczky reveals the beauty and tension of first-generation cultural identity.Helen Hajnoczky's first book of poetry was Poets and Killers: A Life in Advertising (Snare, 2010). Her work has appeared in poetry anthologies, magazines, and chapbooks. She lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Two novels, two young women at the frontiers of sex.Like a series of Penthouse letters penned by Kathy Acker, Lie With Me recounts a woman's sexual escapades, picking up random men in bars for a series of increasingly extreme encounters, hoping to understand love from the far side of sluttiness.In The Way of the Whore, Mira, an introverted Jewish girl obsessed with Jean Genet, allows herself to be seduced by the sex industry, determined to find meaning in her tormented relationships with cruel men.Tamara Faith Berger's first two novels have been languishing out of print. They were scandalous when they were first published; substantially revised and returned to print, they're just as titillating and troubling now."e;Treading a line between sublime experimentation and unsettling honesty, Little Cat rides a wave of female sexual energy. . . . 'Please, I want you to stay with me till it's over,' the narrator of 'Lie With Me' begs. With writing this good, it's hard not to.' Quill & QuirePraise for Tamara Faith Berger's Maidenhead (winner of the 2012 Believer Book Award):"e;Myra's confusion, her passion, her need for possession and to be possessed, make this novel an incredible read, finding its place, as Sheila Heti (who should know) wrote, 'somewhere between the wilds of Judy Blume, Girls Gone Wild and Michel Foucault.'"e; Flavorwire"e;There are no easy moments, no comfort to be found in the searing prose. . . . When writers get young female sexuality right, stories become a revelation and such is the case with Maidenhead. The writing pulls the reader desperately close."e; Roxane Gay, The RumpusTamara Faith Berger is the author of three novels, including Maidenhead. Lie With Me has been made into a film.

The story of the growth and destruction of Toronto's first 'priority neighbourhood.'

Moving from the absurdity of the First World War to the chaos of today's cities, where men share beds, bottles of ouzo, and shade from willow trees, these poems ask questions: If your lover speaks in his sleep, how do you know "e;you"e; is you? Can you wake him to move his arm? What if you think of the perfect comeback to a six-year-old argument? Otter fails, with style, to find answers.Ben Ladouceur is a writer originally from Ottawa, now based in Toronto. His work has been featured in The Best Canadian Poetry 2013, and he was awarded the Earle Birney Poetry Prize in 2013.

"e;David McGimpsey is unfuckwithable, poetry-wise, and I'll stand on John Ashberry's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that."e;Michael RobbinsImplored to be "e;classy"e; and "e;real"e; for once, David McGimpsey looks to all things "e;poetic,"e; like birds and history, and instead finds true value and meaning in diet lime soda and the words to "e;Bootylicious."e; Asbestos Heights amps up McGimpsey's trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric with pop-culture verve to find a bold Late Night Petrarchan spirit.David McGimpsey is the author of several books of poetry and short fiction. He is also a musician, a fiction editor for Joyland, and his travel writing is a regular feature of enRoute magazine. He teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University.

"e;Ken Babstock is a wonderful and spirited poet, his work is full of musicality, syncopation, wit, and formal acuity, it's all good."e;Peter Gizzi"e;The flavor of this poetry is complexit will have to be consumed in small amounts like a sipping tequila. It inebriates quickly. It imparts a convivial brilliance to life. And it is not without its sinister edge."e;Ange MlinkoWith poems on perfect blue and a sonnet sequence situated on a derelict NSA surveillance station on a Berlin hill, On Malice assembles evacuated forms, polysemy, prayer, and perverse chatter into poems that enact our paranoia. Channeling Walter Benjamin's son, William Hazlitt, John Donne, and Dick Cheney, they are lyric in their sonic and affective register but coldly methodological in their invented structures and illusions.You finish reading it. You cannotfinish reading it. Ice caughtin the can, later, the well. Whatshall I be worried about,the coward well and the ice doessuch a lot. They know nothingof cantilevered blown-out shellswho feed their worrylike veal barns. The dome's aerialmy lodestar and icon, the squirrelat dusk in the post-informational gloamingcan never not finish reading it as songKen Babstock is the author of Methodist Hatchet, which won the Griffin Poetry Prize. His previous titles, Mean, Days into Flatspin, and Airstream Land Yacht, hold nominations for the Governor General's Award and the Winterset Prize. Poems from this book have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

An old man in a military uniform is dumped at the police stationhe won't speak English but has a lawyer's card in his pocket. A seemingly innocuous encounter gets stranger and stranger as we gradually realize no one is who they seem and the Balkan wars' traumas continue to play out. The "e;It Kid"e; of Canadian theater, award-winning playwright Nicolas Billon, returns with a devastating parable.Nicolas Billon's plays and translations have been produced at the Stratford Festival, Soulpepper Theatre, and Canadian Stage. Fault Lines won the Governor General's Award, and his first play, The Elephant Song, is being developed into a film starring Catherine Keener.

"e;I have tremendous respect for any poet who strives to be even half as great as Sarah Dowling."e;CAConradDisorientation and defamiliarization yank fresh feeling from banal sentences. Down takes junk languagewith cameos by Frank O'Hara, Frank Ocean, Aaliyah, and the Temptationsand flattens it until we're living in the same environment. How can we carve private spaces from discarded publics?Sarah Dowling is the author of Security Posture and Birds & Bees. Sarah's poetry was included in the anthology I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women. She teaches at the University of Washington Bothell and is international editor at Jacket2.