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How You Were Born
First published in 2014, this tenth-anniversary edition of the award-winning collection includes three new stories. A young mother intrudes in the life of an older woman, thinking she knows what's best. An academic becomes convinced that he is haunted by his double. Two children spy on their supposedly criminal neighbours. A man enables his cousin's predatory impulses out of loyalty, and a circus performer dreams of a perfect wedding. These characters fail despite their best intentions and continue on despite their failures. The stories in How You Were Born, each more incisive and devastating than the last, examine the difficult business of love, loyalty, and memory. Sharing the bizarre and tragi-comic of life—whether in present-day Toronto or in small towns of the early 20th century—Cayley champions the importance of connections, even when missed or mislaid, and the possibility of redemption.
Plenitude
A non-binary faun wishes their body had a variety of sex organs, interchangeable daily. A prison abolitionist scrutinizes Rothko paintings on the carceral state's boardroom walls. The insurrectionary tactics of mass social movements spread, like a secret handshake, from Chile to Hong Kong to Toronto. Shaped by Daniel Sarah Karasik's experience of grassroots social and political advocacy, these poems are an offering to those engaged in struggles for a better world--and an acknowledgement of the sometimes contradictory meanings of those struggles. How do individual erotic desires relate to collective desires for deliverance from alienation and exploitation? How might we dream of a more humane future and work towards building it without minimizing the challenges that stand in our way? Plenitude cartwheels towards a world that might be: a world without cops or bosses, without prisons, without oppressive regulation of gender and desire. It is a song for the excluded and forgotten and those who struggle alongside them.
Little Death
Alex may or may not be dying. Confronted with his mortality, he searches for sex and connection in hotel bars -- with his wife Brit's conflicted blessing.Little Death, the lyrical new drama from CBC Fiction Prize-winner and Dora Award-nominated playwright Daniel Karasik, is a gripping study of sexuality under extreme pressure. Tender and fierce by turns, in precise, musical language that straddles the boundary between poetic verse and dramatic prose, this play for six actors (5 F, 1 M) asks fundamental questions about marriage, fidelity, and the intimate needs of men and women. Prior to its premiere production at Toronto's Theatre Centre in April 2015, Little Death was developed at the Royal...
The Crossing Guard
Complex relationships are formed and broken, discoveries are made, and lives are changed in these two acclaimed plays.
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Hungry
Wry and searching, wise and playful, Daniel Karasik's poetic voice is singular, the voice of an old soul navigating contemporary straits. Witty delight and precocious insight commingle in refreshingly accesible poems whose thrust is philosophical even when the poet is at his most irreverent. Hungry, Karasik's first collection of poetry, is an introduction to one of the bright literary lights of his generation.
The New Spring
The New Spring is the story of a Japanese soldier and the devastation -- as well as the social and moral upheaval -- he finds when he is repatriated from the Pacific after World War II. After a five-year absence he is almost a stranger to his shy wife and he is soon at odds with his oldest brother who flaunts his nisei sergeant friend and black-market cigarettes. He is outraged to find his brother’s widow shacked up with an American. Practically everything to which he has come home is alien to his values as he struggles to realign his life with postwar realities.
Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina
Myrmurs is an innovative variant of the sestina form (a medieval mechanism of desire that spirals around six end words). Connecting medieval textuality to contemporary politics and poetics, this poem explores living systems: cities and languages as self-organizing entities; ants; interspecies entanglements; strange attachments; neocolonialism and how to break free of it. Following on her critically acclaimed debut collection fur(l) parachute (published by BookThug in 2013), this is the second volume in Shannon Maguire's planned medievalist trilogy. "What a relief to find ant traffic arriving at our picnic. Maguire's poems are acrawl with chaser light shuttles and swaps and deep-kissing indus...
Job Shadowing
Fiction. In this first full-length work of fiction by Toronto-based artist and writer Malcolm Sutton (and BookThug's own Fiction Editor), JOB SHADOWING delivers an imaginative take on the present- day crisis in work, particularly as it relates to identity and belonging. Sutton combines the transformational- fantastic with crystal-clear contemporary reality in two cross- cutting storylines that interrogate the ways in which two people can exist together in tight proximity: as a woman married to a man; as an ambitious employee joined to a problematic shadow; as an idealistic artist dependent on a wealthy employer; and as multiple generations negotiating their statuses with one another. All of ...
