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A burgeoning new branch of Hispanic literature, Latino-Canadian writing is now becoming part of the Canadian and Quebec literary traditions. Latinocanadá, a critical anthology, examines the work of Hispanic writers who have settled in Canada over the past thirty years and includes newly translated selections of their work.
The poems in Dancing Alone are drawn from the six small-press classics, all out of print, that William Hawkins published between 1964 and 1974 plus some new poems. A contemporary of George Bowering, Victor Coleman and Michael Ondaatje, Hawkins appeared in Raymond Souster's landmark anthology New Wave Canada and in Oxford's Modern Canadian Verse, where editor A.J.M. Smith positioned him between Margaret Atwood and Gwendolyn MacEwen. Readers will discover in Hawkins' work an inimitably haunting poetic voice. Hawkins was also the central figure of a richly creative Ottawa-based music scene. His fugitive pickup bands included Bruce Cockburn, David Wiffen, Colleen Peterson, Amos Garrett, Darius Brubeck and Sneezy Waters. Hawkins calls himself "a semi-retired hard rocker and high roller."
Sculpture examines the philosophy, history and material technology of sculpture within the frame of a travel narrative from Canada to New York and across Europe.
Noted for its musicality and its ample, expansive lyricism, Acadian poet Serge Patrice Thibodeau's poetry reveals a new dimension in this collection. These lines of poetry are murmured, practically whispered, the stanza making use of the ellipsis. The angry, melancholic, and tormented tone seen in the poet's previous work gives way to the desire to convey poetry freed from revolt, sadness, and indignation. What results is a mitigated tension that strives for joy and is serene rather than impassioned, one emanating from rest: rest of the body, the mind, the soul, and especially of the heart. Let Rest is a translation of Que repose (Perce-Neige, 2004), Thibodeau's eleventh book of poetry. In praise of his award-winning book Le Quatuor de l'errance, the Canada Council for the Arts wrote: "In pure, beautiful language that is rich in imagery and words, Serge Patrice Thibodeau has penned an inspired song that marks him as one of the important poets of our time."
Impossible Landscapes includes recent works plus selections from earlier volumes. The book has four sections: Impossible Landscapes; the saga of the semi-mythical Guerrero; Other Landscapes; and Border Crossings, which voyages widely in time and space. A living descendent of the Imagists, Steele avoids decoration and abstraction. The landscapes are as much mental as physical, and always there is someone or something missing in them.
Winner of the inaugural David Adams Richards Prize, Postcards from Ex-Lovers is a collection of flash fiction from the lives of women who need to move on. The stories pull apart the cliches passed between lovers, catch bits of gossip from cafes across the street from a historical monument, and replay old refrains. Offering an edgy but not-quite-jaded look at relationships at the turn of the new century, Jo-Anne Elder gives postcard stories a woman's voice and introduces business card fiction.