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The water slurps my shoulders, torso, and back in a big, wet kiss, bending my image into an ironic clone of the truth. I bow to its dominance and let it break me open. The water alone will have me. Watched obsessively by her guru-like coach,  a nameless swimmer battles the element of water in a gruelling physical regimen. Outside of training,  she floats loose in waters murky, salty, and chlorinated,  engaging in aimless self-destruction,  res...

From one of Canada's brightest emerging writers comes an unforgettable tale of love, art, and life. Set in the vividly imagined streets of 1920s Montreal, Serafim and Claire is the beautiful, moving, and compulsively readable story of two dreamers whose worlds become forever connected. Claire Audette is a dancer whose reputation in the vaudeville houses of 1920s Montreal is rapidly on the rise. Serafim Vieria is a photographer and lonely immig...

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The only certainty in life, according to these stories, comes from the accumulation of moments that refuse to be contained. The stories in Open cover these moments, familiar territory in the hands of most writers, in unfamiliar ways. The interconnectedness of a bus ride in Nepal and a wedding on the shore of Quidi Vidi Lake, the tension between a husband and wife when their infant cries before dawn (who will go to him?) and the husband's wrenc...

This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Erín Moure's poetry collection Kapusta is limited to 50 copies.In Kapusta, Moure performs silence on the page and aloud, writing "gesture" and "voice" to explore the relation between responsibility and place, body, and memory, sorrow and sonority. Here, poetry flourishes as a book "beyond the book, " in a space of performance that starts and stops time.In Little Theatres, Ern Moure's...

This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Elise Partridge's poetry collection is limited to 50 copies.Elise Partridge's The Exiles' Gallery extends the range of her widely acclaimed earlier books, Fielder's Choice and Chameleon Hours, praised as "first-rate" (James Pollock) for their "authenticity" (Stephanie Bolster) and "brilliant precisions that reflect life's plenitude" (Rosanna Warren).Widely praised for her engagement ...

This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Anne-Marie Turza's poetry collection The Quiet is limited to 50 copies.Anne-Marie Turza's formidable debut collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science: microscopic creatures, the pitcher Satchel Paige, toothed whales, a man on the back of a snow bear.These poems test the lyric affinity between silence, imagination, and the material wo...

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Drawing upon his Cree and Scandinavian roots, Harold R. Johnson merges myth, fantasy, and history in this epic saga of exploration and adventure.

In this innovative and intimate memoir, a daughter tells the story of her mother, a pan-African hero who faced down misogyny and battled corruption in Nigeria. Inspired by the African philosophy of Ubuntu -- the importance of community over the individual -- and outraged by injustice, Dora Akunyili took on fraudulent drug manufacturers whose products killed millions, including her sister. A woman in a man's world, she was elected and became a ...