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The Turning Point
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

The Turning Point

We’ve all heard the phrase ‘the moment when my life changed forever’. Some of us can even pinpoint it in our own lives; the birth of a child, the acceptance letter to a degree programme, the decision to make a momentous change. The Turning Point is an anthology of personal accounts, showcasing the extraordinary and unexpected moments that have completely altered everyday lives. Each of the 40 stories in this book offers a rare glimpse into the turning point of the writer’s life. Hand-picked as the most extraordinary entries received in an international writing competition, they are eclectic, diverse and entirely immersive. From stray bullets in Los Angeles to falling in love in the A...

This Flesh, These Words
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 92

This Flesh, These Words

This powerful new book by Montreal poet Sharon H,. Nelson reflects on the deeper side of life - friendship, loss, community and language. A cohesive and richly textured book, The poems of This Flesh These Words contemplate humanity’s restless spiritual hunger witnessed in diverse cultural traditions. This poet confronts the grief of loss, but also celebrates life and the ability of language to sustain friendship and commmunity. Sharon H. Nelson takes as the vocation of the poet the study of "what it means to be human and how we as humans survive."

Last Child to Come Inside
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 74

Last Child to Come Inside

These are poignant, at times strangely quirky entries into a world filled with sharpness, the sense of imminent danger, and a sensual urge that seems to sweep all danger before it. the border between exterior and interior life is diffuse. One can find oneself in unexpected places. Two little girls in yellow dresses who are never seen again, Jesus and Elvis vacationing in Bermuda, a town after the fair has gone, women showering after a swim, Picasso becoming a red velvet dress: these are just a few of the images conjured in Michelle's first collection. There is also the expressed silence of what is not known, nor brought to light, a darkness that this poet loves and that has often been the reason why she is the last child to come inside.

Don’t Tell: Family Secrets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Don’t Tell: Family Secrets

Donna McCart Sharkey and Arleen Paré , sisters and writers, have co-edited an anthology Don' t Tell: Family Secrets, about what may be hidden in families. For each individual, even in the same family, what is secret and what is not, may be different. In Don' t Tell: Family Secrets, fifty-nine writers tell their stories in either prose or poetry, of their own family secrets. So often, mothers bear the burden, stand over time as the keepers of these secrets, trying to keep families intact. Spanning continents, cultures, wars, belief systems, and the private lives of families, the secrets in this book range from over one hundred years ago to the present and include stories &– some serious, others quirky, some resolved, and still others that remain a mystery.

We All Begin in a Little Magazine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 158

We All Begin in a Little Magazine

When Arc began publishing in 1978, it had one aim: to publish the best work by Canada's new and established poets. Celebrating Arc's first two decades, We All Begin in a Little Magazine testifies to how fully the editors realized their aspirations. It provides a rich cross section of Canada's poetry of the time, the most vital years thus far in the history of Canadian Literature. Read the work of your favourite poets just as they first made names for themselves. Rediscover the excitment you felt when you came across their poems in Arc Canada's best "little magazine."

Going the Distance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Going the Distance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-01-01
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  • Publisher: LSU Press

This bold new theoretical study explores dissident subjectivity, that is, the struggle for unique authorial identity in American literary discourse that has existed, according to David Jarraway, since the Romantics. From Emerson’s “Experience” remarking upon the “focal distance within the actual horizon of human life” to Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize address sanctifying the artist’s “sophisticated privileged space,” American literature has continuously recognized a necessary “distance”—the gap between culturally accepted ideas of selfhood and the intractable reality of the self’s never-completed construction in time. Jarraway’s fascinating examination of modernist p...

Love and Loss
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

Love and Loss

Time gives us the wisdom to realize a mother’s sacrifice, a father’s love, a friend’s loyalty, or a grandparent’s kindness, as loss and love turn to memory. These 25 true stories of loss and love from around the world are inspiring and heartbreaking reminders of what is most important: life, love, memory, beauty. Loved ones are honoured in this gripping compilation, interspersed with quotes by diverse people like Beethoven, Abraham Lincoln and Dr Seuss for a book to connect with time and again.

Sleep is a Country
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 74

Sleep is a Country

A woman of two worlds explores personal identity, spirituality and relationships in Sleep is a Country, her first collection. Her life has been both prairie and capital, French and English. Le Dressay's often removed observations and sometimes heated interactions are shared in poems connected by strong emotion.

Fear of the Ride
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 68

Fear of the Ride

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Something I'm Supposed to Remember
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 84

Something I'm Supposed to Remember

Something I'm Supposed to Remember is the first title in the Harbinger Poetry Series. This fine collection of gritty, thought-provoking works is written with the wisdom and sensitivity of a writer who knows of what she speaks. Holly Kritsch has a knack for drawing the reader "in" with such detail that one experiences the smells, visions, and textures of her words. Capturing the essence and voice of a child with accuracy and honesty, her early childhood writings stir, inspire, and awaken the child within us all. In poems drawn both from her rural Nova Scotia childhood and from her professional life, Holly Kritsch evokes with precision, directness and wit, areas of wry darkness behind the everyday.