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The description of the world
Par Johanna Skibsrud. 2016
In this collection of poems, the author asks: is our world really what it appears to be? How do we…
shape it through language? And if language can create our world, can it also transform or destroy it? She brings us to the edges of dreams and waking. With lines that are searching, but spacious, she deftly turns over ideas of perception and reality, inviting us to join her as she releases the abstract figure from its painting, or brings the poet in from the wilderness. 2016.The door: poems
Par Margaret Atwood. 2007
A collection of fifty poems, ranging in subject from the personal to the political. They investigate the mysterious writing of…
poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality. 2007.The curse of the narrows: the Halifax explosion, 1917
Par Laura MacDonald. 2005
On December 7, 1917, in the heart of the World War I, two ships collided in Halifax harbour. The resulting…
explosion killed over 2,000 people and injured some 6,000 more. Macdonald presents the whole story of how the military, volunteers and ordinary citizens united to organize one of the most complex relief efforts in North American history. Descriptions of violence. 2005.The $12 million stuffed shark: the curious economics of contemporary art
Par Donald N Thompson. 2008
Delves into the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world - artists, dealers, auction houses, and wealthy collectors. If…
it's true that 85 percent of new contemporary art is bad, why were record prices achieved at auction in 2006 and 2007? Explores money, lust, and the self-aggrandizement of possession in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work of art valuable while others are ignored. 2008.Terror on the seas: true tales of modern-day pirates
Par Daniel Sekulich. 2009
Award-winning journalist investigates high-seas piracy, incidents of which occur on a near-daily basis worldwide and can involve detention, robbery, and…
violence. Interviews professional mariners, victims, and even perpetrators themselves to uncover the inner workings of criminal enterprises and gauge international economic and security threats in the early twenty-first century. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2009.Take off your glasses and see: how to heal your eyesight and expand your insight
Par Jacob Liberman. 1995
Drawing on his own experiences and the success of the people he has treated, Liberman reveals how the fundamental self-healing…
properties of the body/mind connection can change the way you see the world. Liberman focuses on the intimate connection between "eyesight" and "insight" and makes it clear that changing our awareness and perceptions is the best "prescription" of all. 1995.Silvija: poems
Par Sandra Ridley. 2016
In a sequence of five feverish elegies, Ridley combines narrative lyric and experimental verse styles to manifest dark themes related…
to love and loss: the traumas of psychological suffering (isolation and confinement), physical abuse (by parent and partner), terminal illness (brain tumour and heart attack), revelation, resolution, and healing. With a blend of fervour and sangfroid, these serial poems accrue into a book-length testament to a grief both personal and human, leaving readers with the redemptive grace that comes from poetry's ability to wrestle chaos into meaning. Because of its overarching themes and serial form, "Silvija" is best read cover-to-cover, analogous to a work of fiction, rather than a book of individual or occasional poems. 2016.Seeking the sacred: leading a spiritual life in a secular world
Par Elizabeth Etue, Roméo A Dallaire. 2006
In a world permeated by religious strife, renewed interest in issues of faith necessitates a journey beyond the orthodox institutions…
many have come to mistrust. This new brand of "seeker" is looking for an open and safe environment in which to discuss unique interpretations of consciousness, spirituality, ethics, and philosophy through the world's complex mosaic of beliefs and customs. Includes lectures by Jungian therapist Marion Woodman, Lt. General Roméo Dallaire, and Stephen Lewis. Descriptions of violence. 2006.Shorty, an aviation pioneer: the story of Victor John Hatton
Par James Glassco Henderson. 2004
Having survived the First World War in the trenches, Shorty Hatton started his aviation career in a near-fatal crash of…
an Avro 504K and ended it with another Avro aircraft, the Arrow. In the intervening years he was a military, bush, and test pilot, he taught fledgling aviators at Camp Borden, he was the first to fly new air mail routes in an open cockpit plane, and he tested newly-built Hawker Hurricanes before they joined the Battle of Britain. Some descriptions of sex. 2004.Settler education: poems
Par Laurie D Graham. 2016
In the stunning poems of "Settler Education", Graham explores the Plains Cree uprising at Frog Lake -- the death of…
nine settlers, the hanging of six Cree warriors, the imprisonment of Big Bear, and the opening of the Prairies to unfettered settlement. In ways possible only with such an honest act of imagination, and with language at once terse and capacious, she reckons with how these pasts repeat and reconstitute themselves in the present. Poems from this book won the 2013 Thomas Morton Poetry Prize. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.Rag cosmology
Par Erin Robinsong. 2017
In this time of ecological precarity, "Rag Cosmology" is an urgent invitation to reinvent our modes of engagement with the…
environment we not only inhabit, but are. Refusing the lamentation that leaves us as resigned witnesses to devastation, "Rag Cosmology" counters fatalist narratives with the pleasures of ecological entanglement and engagement. Tracing relationships between seemingly irreconcilable things--economy and ecology, weather and lust, bills and inner voices, wages of avoidance and wages of listening--these poems offer the intimate and lush language of thought that yearn for an imaginative reinvention of how we understand what we are part of and what we are losing. Winner of the 2017 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QWF). 2017.On not losing my father's ashes in the flood
Par Richard Harrison. 2016
In his final years, Richard Harrison's father suffered from a form of dementia, but he died without ever forgetting the…
poems he had memorized as a student and had taught to Richard as a child. In 2013, the poet feared his father's ashes had been lost in the flood water that ravaged Alberta--a crisis that would become the inciting event and central theme of this collection. Combining elements of memoir, elegy, lyrical essay and personal correspondence with appreciations of literary works ranging from haiku to comic books, Richard Harrison has written a book of great intellectual depth that is as generous as it is enchanting. Winner of the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.Methodist hatchet: poems
Par Ken Babstock. 2011
“Carolinian forest” echoes back as construction cranes in an urban skyline, “Second Life” returns as wildlife, as childhood. Even the…
poem itself - the idea of a poem - as a unit of understanding is shadowed by a great unknowing. Fearless in its language, its trajectories and frames of reference, these poems gaze upon the objects of their attention until they rattle and exude their auras of strangeness. Some strong language. 2011.Désir: roman sexo-informatif ((Vivre mieux).)
Par Pascal De Sutter, Valérie Doyen. 2014
" Attention ! Le livre que vous tenez en main est un roman sexo-informatif. Il a été scientifiquement démontré que…
la majorité des personnes qui lisent ce nouveau genre littéraire voient la qualité de leur vie affective et sexuelle s'améliorer. Le principe ? Vous lisez un roman d'aventures enrichi d'informations sexologiques. En suivant pas à pas ce récit d'espionnage aux multiples rebondissements, vous pouvez vous identifier aux personnages dont les émotions sont authentiques. Tout en lisant ces aventures, vous acquérez des connaissances nouvelles en sexologie. Ensuite, consciemment et inconsciemment, vous modifiez certains de vos propres comportements relationnels. Cela semble magique et pourtant c'est scientifique ! À la lecture de ce livre vous comprendrez tous les mystères du désir sexuel féminin. Comment il varie au cours du temps, fluctue, diminue et parfois disparaît. Et comment le faire (re)naître, (re)vivre et l'épanouir pour le plaisir et la complicité du couple. Car le désir est un élément fondamental de votre équilibre sexuel et conjugal. " -- 4e de couv.Le monde est magique!: 11 balades insolites pour changer de regard sur ce qui vous entoure
Par Alexandra Horowitz, Marie-France Desjeux. 2014
" Êtes-vous conscient qu'en ce moment même vous ratez l'essentiel de ce qui se passe autour de vous, là, sous…
votre nez ? Pour vous en convaincre et redécouvrir la magie du monde, il suffit d'appliquer la méthode proposée par Alexandra Horowitz : arpenter le pavé celui de New York en l'occurrence en compagnie d'un spécialiste d'un domaine particulier, et voir à travers ses yeux des facettes inédites du quotidien. Partagez ainsi l'affût de ce spécialiste de la biodiversité, pour croiser les ratons laveurs et les coyotes (!) qui ont envahi la ville. Avec ce géologue, observez les traces des dernières glaciations dans les schistes de Central Park. Suivez les premiers pas du fils de l'auteure et repérez ces formes et ces couleurs que nous avons cessé de voir. Partez à la reconquête de vos sens guidés par cet aveugle, ce médecin, cet acousticien, etc. À la façon d'un Jean Claude Ameisen, Alexandra Horowitz profite de ces balades buissonnières pour décortiquer les mécanismes de la perception et de lattention celle qui nous fait si souvent défaut en exploitant des expériences troublantes de psychologie et les derniers résultats des neurosciences. Poète, savante et aventurière urbaine, elle confirme son statut d'écrivain à suivre attentivement. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: On Looking: A Walker’s Guide to the Art of Observation.Late wife: poems ([Southern messenger poets])
Par Claudia Emerson. 2005
A woman explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and…
her new husband in a series of epistolary poems. Though not satisfied in her first marriage, she laments vanishing from the life she and her husband shared for years. She then describes the unexpected joys of solitude during her recovery and emotional convalescence. Finally, in a sequence of sonnets, she speaks to her new husband, whose first wife died from lung cancer. Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, 2005.Killdeer: Essay-poems (Department of critical thought ; #4)
Par Phil Hall. 2011
Poems of critical thought that have been influenced by old fiddle tunes, essays that are not out to persuade so…
much as ruminate, invite, accrue. Includes memories of, and homages to Margaret Laurence, Bronwen Wallace, Libby Scheier, and Daniel Jones. Hall writes of the embarrassing process of becoming a poet, and of his push-pull relationship with the concept of home. Winner of the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2011.In Flanders fields: the story of the poem by John McCrae
Par Linda Granfield, John McCrae. 1996
The poem "In Flanders Fields" is one of the most famous war poems ever written. This book contains the poem,…
as well as the story of John McCrae, the Canadian doctor who wrote it, and how it came to be written. Grades 2-4.Ice wreck
Par Lucille Recht Penner. 2001
Describes the true story of British explorer Shackleton's attempted 1914 expedition to Antarctica. When the ship was caught in the…
frozen sea, he and his crew experienced an eighteen-month ordeal, during which they camped on ice floes and lived on an island. Grades 2-4. 2001.Eiger dreams: ventures among men and mountains
Par Jon Krakauer. 2009
Twelve accounts of mountaineering feats by the author of “Into Thin Air” (DC16741). In the title piece, Krakauer and a…
younger companion are waiting out bad weather conditions before assaulting the north face of the Eiger in Switzerland. Some strong language. 2009, c1990.