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2017., General, MisFit, an imprint of ECW Press Call No: QWF 811.54 D535b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Referencing the post-war neorealist film by Vittorio De Sica, Mary di Michele's Bicycle Thieves commemorates her Italian past and her life in Canada through elegy and acts of translation of text and of self. The collection opens with a kind of hymn to life on the planet, sung from the peak of that urban island, Montreal - an attempt to see beyond death. The book moves into a sequence of poems described by Sharon Thesen as the poet "envisioning the passage of time under the 'full and waning' moon of Mount Royal's beacon cross, recalling her Italian immigrant parents in Toronto and her current life in Montreal [. . .] a sort of Decameron." Thesen's description is apt for the collection as a whole, which moves into the poet's autobiography - in search of catharsis through literature - and pays tributes to poets who have been part of the literary landscape di Michele now inhabits. Bicycle Thieves is poetry as time machine, transcending the borders between life and death, language and culture. Mary di Michele, born in Lanciano, Italy, is an Italian-Canadian poet and author. She immigrated to Toronto with her family in 1955. She is a professor at Concordia University in Montreal where she teaches in creative writing.
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2016., University of Ottawa Press Call No: 819.13 S279j Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2004., Signal Editions ; Distributed in the U.S. by Independent Publishers Group Call No: QWF 811.54 N442m c.2 Availability:2 of 2 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view
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Ã2016., Thirty Torches Publishing Call No: QWF 811.6 K18n Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: No Turning Back is a book of poetry by Michael Katz. Katz grew up in Montreal in the 1970s, during the turmoil of the separatist movement in Quebec. His childhood memories are bound to the cultural zeitgeist of the Anglo-Jewish community which, even then, had begun its exodus from Quebec. Katz left his beloved Montreal and the serene beauty of the Laurentian Mountains for the United States in 1984. No Turning Back speaks to the emotions, experiences, and identities that persist in all persons yearning for continuity with their past.
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-- Not in vain you have sent me lightBy Siré, Cora2021., Guernica Editions Call No: QWF 811.6 S619n Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential poets Volume: 287.Summary Note: "This collection vaults from the provocative - a deeply personal exposé of two lovers and their collisions and triumphs - into a high-voltage gallery depicting heroes and artists, scientists and politicians, mothers and their conflicted daughters. As the settings shift between the poet's homage to her home city of Montreal ("Sinville") to a near-drowning on a lake by a maximum security prison in New York State ("Cobalt") or calamities in the Andes of northern Argentina ("Argent"), Cora Siré draws on a colourful palette of form, lyric and metaphor to continue her exploration of identity, displacement and the cosmic powers of love and art."--
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2015., Blurb Call No: Bio B813p Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This 2015 collection of poems, paintings and stories by Montreal art activist and cancer survivor, CHERYL BRAGANZA, will make a beautiful addition to your bedside or coffee table. Written in touching prose, her life story covering several continents, weaves delicate threads of color, music, poetry, human rights and survival together into a unique fabric guaranteed to inspire. A real collector's item.
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2003. Call No: DVD Bio L429r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A look inside the life of Montreal poet Irving Layton, one of the most remarkable personalities in the Canadian literary scene.
![A red carpet for the sun : the life of Irving Layton [DVD] (2003). Directed by Donald Winkler](/Library/images/~imageCT80643.JPG "A red carpet for the sun : the life of Irving Layton [DVD] (2003). Directed by Donald Winkler")
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2015., Anvill Press Call No: QWF 811.6 B935r Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In her compelling debut poetry collection, shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award, Melissa Bull explores the familial, romantic, and sexual ties that bind lives to cities. Rue takes us through its alleys, parks, and kitchens with a robust lyricism and language that is at once inventive and plainspoken, compassionate and frank.In English, to rue is to regret; in French, la rue is the street Rue's poems provide the venue for moments of both recollection and motion. Punctuated with neologisms and the bilingual dialogue of Montreal, the collection explores the author's upbringing in the working-class neighbourhood of St. Henri with her artist mother, follows her travels, friendships, and loves across North America, Europe, and Russia, and recounts her journalist father's struggles with terminal brain cancer.Inspired by powerful Quebec talents like Nelly Arcan, Marie-Sissy Labrèche, playwright Annick Lefebvre, Canadians poets Elizabeth Bachinsky, Nikki Reimer and David McGimpsey, Melissa Bull brings an unflinching new feminist voice to the Canadian literary scene.
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2022., Cactus Books Call No: NEW QWF 811.6 L778v Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: (Vice) Viscera slits open the boundary between the corporeal and the cerebral. And Willow Loveday Little isn’t afraid to get ugly: exploring tensions between performance and performative ethics, otherworlds of illness and medicine, patterns of violence and intimacy. “My language is my body,” she writes. Yet, while these poems are of the viscera, the vulnerable, and the dark, they bare the pulse of a truly electric intelligence. A sly and intricately wired nervous system, her work abounds in multivalent meanings, reversals, and linguistic cunning. Its voice channels the motions of the body and the scalpel, dissects the inner workings of the mind and heart with surgical precision, yet deals compassionately with each, never mangling the live matter it examines. How do we mend a broken heart, deal with disenchantment, grow up, or grieve? Alternately personal and esoteric, the substance of this debut collection defies categorisation, except that, as it reveals itself, so too does it the reader.
