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As the great Brazilian writer, Clarice Lispector said, "Being alive is inhuman.

Poetry. Winner of the 2020 Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize, Selected by Indran Amirthanayagam. Peter Grandbois' LAST NIGHT I AGED A HUNDRED YEARS takes us on a winged journey beyond ourselves to the very lip of being, where identities blend and dissolve in their quest to 'lose the small in me.' Not content to witness and record, these talismanic verses invoke deep longing, conjuring a space where 'The spirit lives between / one name ...

The history of our relationship with mental illness is the history of silence. Everything Has Become Birds is an attempt to change that. For centuries the mentally ill have either been locked up, driven out of cities and towns by whip and lash, sterilized, lobotomized, and euthanized. The catalogue of horrors rivals the worst of humanities abuses and yet comparatively little has been written about it. How often the victims were silenced, told ...

Triptych is of lyric emergencies, love, self, and rediscovering one's muse through the timelessness of art, song, and poetry.

Set in nineteenth century Minnesota during the events leading up to the Dawes Act of 1887 (one of the biggest land grabs in the history of white and Native relations), Peter Grandbois' new novel, Half Burnt, follows the life of Hole in the Day, arguably the most important historical chief of the Ojibwe nation. Narrated by an aging, Métis priest as he takes the confession of Hole in the Day's right hand man, Niibiinishkang the novel slowly unco...

Peter Grandbois' essay collection, Kissing the Lobster, uses the ancient samurai code of Bushido (Justice, Courage, Mercy, Courtesy, Honesty, Honor, Loyalty, and Character), then throws in a few of his own, as a lens through which to interrogate authenticity in a culture obsessed with surface and youth. The book is an ode to failure, a rallying cry for the inevitability of pain and the acceptance of loss. It is a reminder that in hiding from p...

Peter Grandbois' This House That is a haunting collection of poetry that traces the effort to reintergrate the self after loss.It is a book about family, about love, and about the mystery of being human.

Set in a small Spanish village, this novel tells the story of the town's gravedigger, a man who has the ability to bridge the worlds of the living and the dead. Combining magic realism, ribald frolics, and flights of fancy, it is a heart-warming tale of lives, deaths, and love.

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Nahoonkara moves between poetry and prose, relying on the alchemy of images to open up the magic within the story.