-
-
2019., Coach House Books Call No: QWF 819.12 M385a Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From Homer to Starbucks, a look at sirens and mermaids and feminism and consumerism. What started as a small sequence of poems about the Starbucks logo grew to monstrous proportions after the poet fell under a siren spell herself. All Day I Dream About Sirens is both an ancient reverie and a screen-induced stupor as these poems reckon with the enduring cultural fascination with siren and mermaid narratives as they span geographies, economies, and generations, chronicling and reconfiguring the male-centered epic and women's bodies and subjectivities."--.
-
-
By Wallin, Myna2018., Inanna Publications and Education Inc. Call No: 819.12 W211a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Inanna poetry & fiction series.Summary Note: "Bringing together the themes of death, of gender and sexuality, the poet creates a speaker whose language and experience, linked from poem to poem, reflects the true complexity of a woman's perspective. Death is a prevalent theme; anxiety, fear and paranoia simmer throughout the poems. Regret, too, is a recurrent theme, as previous experience defines us even by its absence. The societal construct of womanhood, questions of aging, and female stereotypes are opportunities for an analysis of women's roles and the speaker's need to subvert modern ideals of femininity and sexuality. The poems often employ satire or self-parody and wry humour to suggest that a woman's understanding of her options in the twenty-first century, in light of the many waves of feminism, is always in flux and always challenging."--
-
-
1990., ECW Press Call No: QWF 811.54 O73b Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The poems in this collection, representing work from the decade 1980-1990, range from evocations of common objects, a sea shell or a twisted nail, to explorations of an inner world of memory and imagination. Throughout the collection, there is a tension between things in their unique coherence and the imagination compelled to assimilate them: our seeing is never pure, is never seeing and only seeing.
-
-
2018., Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd. Call No: QWF IND 841.6 K16b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In this, her third volume of poetry, this Aboriginal writer from Quebec again confronts the loss of her landscape and language."--.
-
-
2017., Ekstasis Editions Canada Call No: 811.6 E92b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Bothism is an experimental Sufi text. It is both sorrow and joy, day and night, content and form, dot and circle, the threshold between worlds. It moves from unity to multiplicity and back again exploring that which can be split and reunited: a cell, a relationship, society, faith, time, words on the page. It posits that if one thing is true, then the opposite must also true, and when asked to choose, the poet’s answer is always both.
-
-
2017., Edition des petits nuages Call No: 811.54 R124b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Poetry by Claudia Coutu Radmore.
-
-
2015., Adult, Bookland Press Call No: IND 811.6 D312c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Canadian aboriginal voices.Summary Note: Calling Down the Sky is a poetry collection that describes deep personal experiences and post-generational effects of the Canadian residential school confinements in the 1960s when thousands of First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were placed in these schools against their parents' wishes. Many were forbidden to speak their language and practice their own culture. Rosanna Deerchild exposes how the residential schools systematically undermined aboriginal culture across Canada and disrupted families for generations, severing the ties through which aboriginal culture is taught and sustained, and contributing to a general loss of language and culture. The devastating effects of the residential schools are far-reaching and continue to have significant impact on aboriginal communities.
-
-
2022., Shoreline Press Call No: NEW QWF 811.6 B438c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In Chaos Theories of Goodness, Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt provides insight into the true nature of gratitude and grace. Sensitive to the stress and global uncertainty accompanying the Covid-19 pandemic, she reflects on her daily life and times during the spring of 2020 and points us to where she finds essential hope and a belief in a better future. “And then, together,/ in our rickety, wonderful boat, / we’ll ride out the storm.”.
-
-
2014., Graywolf Press Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV'everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named "post-race" society.
![Citizen [eBook] : an American lyric](/Library/images/~imageCT101093.JPG "Citizen [eBook] : an American lyric")
-
-
c1992., ECW Press Call No: QWF 811.52 G982c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Gustafson is one of those rare poets whose every book is better than the last." (Quill & Quire). "A learned mind in the best sense of the term, teeming with an allusive awareness of history, art, music and literature wittily defining a world always dying." (Toronto Star). "An exquisitely gracious sensibility." (Books in Canada). "Resoundingly upbeat... Witty and erudite, full of allusions to music, art, history and literature, this collection crackles with energy." (Montreal Gazette).
-
-
2023., Penguin Random House Call No: NEW QWF 811.6 B725c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The debut poetry collection from Aaron Boothby. Visceral and emotionally striking poems that examine place and disruption.
-
-
2023., McGill Queens University Press Call No: NEW QWF 811.6 V767d Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Chatty Cathy, while not the first talking doll, was certainly the most widely known, and the only one elevated to idiom. This unauthorized chronicle of her later career luridly illustrates the perils of reaching such linguistic heights with so very little to say. In The Decline and Fall of the Chatty Empire, Jojo, Gypsy May, Marge, Tootles, and Cathy's entire gang undertake an abject odyssey to celebrity. On their adventure, they have many picnics, listen to NPR inattentively, play charades, and discover sharp things hidden in love's thick folds. They end where they began, unutterably broken and luminous. Returning to the snarfs and loving exasperation of his first book, Excitement Tax, John Emil Vincent swipes left and right like no one else writing today. Because why would they?
-
-
2018., Anstruther Books Call No: QWF 811.6 P726e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Multilingually inflected, Klara du Plessis' first collection of poetry explores the multiplicity of self through language, occupying a liminal space between South Africa and Canada. A sequence of visceral, essay-like long poems, du Plessis' writing straddles the lyrical and intellectual, traversing landscapes and fine arts canvases. EKKE is a watershed debut from one of Canada's most exciting young voices.
-
-
1999., Vai Audio CBC Stereo Call No: CD Fic Str Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Enoch Arden, Op. 38, TrV. 181, is a melodrama for narrator and piano, written in 1897 by Richard Strauss to the words of the 1864 poem of the same name by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
![Enoch Arden [CD]](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Enoch Arden [CD]")