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The title of our book, The Fabulous Op has nothing whatsoever to do with its anagrams, "about hopefuls" or "hub of foetal soup, " "Uh, upbeat fools, " "push taboo fuel, " or even, "Afoul pub ethos." Rather, it is a collaborative poem which we-uh, upbeat fools-began by asking our social media contacts to post lines of poetry that they keep memorized, wanting the project to be grounded in the soil of the brain, the canon of the individual as sie...

There are few voices in Canadian writing as original as Barwin's." Toronto Star A wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the bestselling author of Yiddish for Pirates, winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour and shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.Motl is middle-aged, poor, nerdy, Jewish and in desperate need of a shave. Since having his balls shot cleanly off as a youth in WWI, he's lived a quiet life at home in Vilnius with his sh...

A middle-aged Jewish man who fantasizes about being a cowboy goes on an eccentric quest across Europe after the 1941 Nazi invasion of Lithuania in this wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the bestselling author of Yiddish for Pirates, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.Motl is middle-aged, poor, nerdy, Jewish and in desperate need of a shave. Since having his balls shot cleanly off as a youth in WWI, he's lived a quiet life at ...

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Alex Issacson's life has never been normal. His mother got into bed the day his father left, and never got back out again. Hugely over-weight, she is known to the viewing public as Starbright the phone-in-psychic. Although she spends her time consulting the stars and offering advice to others, she won't answer the questions that consume Alex. Why did his father leave, and where is he now? So Alex has turned his search to the internet. When he ...

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Poetry. Sometimes language, thoughts, and emotions are a fixed structure like a warehouse. Sometimes they are fog, waves, light, or music. This is LSE: Language as a second English. English as a grammar of ghosts. Words as the snowfall of ideas. THE OBVIOUS FLAP is a musical, poetic flux of recurring and recursive images that explore the luminous fringes of language. The text weaves a variety of thematic threads of humor, literary allusions, a...

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In this much-anticipated new collection, poet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language, imaginative flight and quiet beauty that have made him unique among contemporary poets. As the "Utne Reader" has noted, what makes this work 'so compelling is Barwin's balance of melancholy with wide-eyed wonder.' "The Porcupinity of the Stars" sees the always bemused and wistful poet reaching into new and dee...

In "Outside the Hat" lies a landscape of CanaDada and SurRielism, populated by dancing medieval woodcuts, Franglais-speaking dogs, sadistic provincial politicians and melodious bison. Including work culled from a plethora of micro-press chapbooks such as "Mike Harris Made Me Eat My Dog, The Irridescent Phlegm of Bagpipers Glorious with Flu, " and "The Stars Are a Pale Pox on the Sky's Dark Chicken, " this is the definitive Gary Barwin collecti...

The surrealist antics of Gary Barwin will run the predictability of your universe through a particle accelerator. Watch as your right eyebrow turns into you as a child. Watch Jeff connect the mower to the Internet to cut other people's lawns. Hear the sploosh as Barwin drops some extra syllables in Basho's frog pond. Funny, smart and as unexpected as the Spanish Inquisition, "Raising Eyebrows" is divided into four mind-boggling sections - dirt...