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Sensual and metaphysical, witty and bereaved, the poems in this collection probe the disintegration of story that occurs in the face of false love, and of failure. They interrogate the motives of those who promulgate dominant points of view and grand narratives of progress, to reveal the ironies, the non sequiturs, and the sacrifices. With imagery that ranges from exhilarating to macabre, Floating Bodies offers a complex interweave of intimate...

A teenaged girl discovers a smuggling ring in the church her family attends. A father makes an uncomfortable confession on the eve of his daughter's wedding. A couple seeks a mate for their dead son's semen samples. Parents and children demand conformity from one another: in marriage, sexuality, living arrangement and matters of religious faith. The women in these stories transcend, disappoint and explode the myths of every day expectation, an...

Moving, entertaining, and witty, A Thousand Consolations is a literary romantic comedy for fans of David Nicholls's Us and Emma Straub's Modern Lovers. Paula doesn't put much faith in the candles she designs for her customers, which promise to cure everything from unrequited love to ingrown toenails, it's just a business she started after her husband's untimely death put an end to their joint dream of a career on the stage. Believing she may ...

This is a unique anthology that features the poems of Canadian poets on a writer who has left a mark on them or their writing. Each poem has a back story to it, ranging from impressions to chronological details. Edited by Julie Roorda and Elana Wolff, the anthology sheds light not only on the creative process but also on the relationship between and among writers.

From Thanksgiving turkeys to faces on the streetcar, this collection of poetry contains vivid images which are both funny and disturbing, and which effectively convey the narrator's pecular vision to the imagination of the reader.

The poems in 'Courage Underground' burrow beneath the skin to examine the relationship between consciousness and body. They penetrate hidden emotions contained by vital organs, they enter the sensibilities of lower order creatures and characters of the mythic underworld. The journey elicits new perspectives on loss and alienation that are both hilarious and startling.

Bronwyn Degroot doesn't have many friends, and her quirkiness and strange sense of humor tend to put them off.When her imagined experiments with supernatural poltergeists and otherworld aliens spill over into real life, she scares off the one friend she has in the neighborhood. The only person who really seems to "get her" is her sister Carey. And Bronwyn has an uncanny knack for understanding Carey, who has cerebral palsy. When Carey gets her...