Big Bird In The Bushis Birney's selected stories and sketches, including ten short pieces, originally published between 1941 and 1955, ranging from the title story (narrated by an East Kootenay berry farmer who spies the miraculous phoenix in his garden) to Decorated With Anachronisms (an amusing piece about the malapropisms committed by his English students through the years).

Diasporas

MAYNE, SEYMOUR

Mosaic Press/Valley Editions

The impossible promised land : poems new and selected

Seymour Mayne has published over 40 books of poems, essays and chapbooks. His collection of short stories The Old Blue Couch has just been published in Spanish in Argentina. His poetry is renowned for its craft, its humour, its satire and for its experimentalism.

Ricochet

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Mosaic Pr

Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People

Historian Thomas Cahill argued that it was the Jewish people who invented the very concept of history as we know it. They were the first to perceive time not as an endless circle of life, death and rebirth, but as the flight of an arrow, on a linear path to somewhere from somewhere. But what if time is not one arrow, but a volley of arrows? What if there are other timelines, other histories, other Jews? Would they still have a covenant with the one God, or would they know strange gods? Would they have survived banishment, pogrom and Holocaust? What if the Holocaust had not occurred? Or what if it had succeeded beyond Hitler's darkest dreams? Some of the world's greatest speculative fiction authors explore these roads not taken, and many others, in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, the first-ever anthology of Jewish alternate history fiction. Contributors include Jack Dann, Robert Silverberg, Harry Turtledove, Jane Yolen, Lavie Tidhar and Benjamin Rosenbaum, among many others!

Dann, Jack

TURTLEDOVE, HARRY

Reisman, Jessica

Shvartsman, Alex

Choi, Eric

Tidhar, Lavie

Kressel, Matthew

Weiss, Allan

Goldberg, James

Rosenbaum, Benjamin

Polack, Gillian

Takács, Bogi

Rafael, Rivqa

GOMEL, ELANA

LALUMIÈRE, CLAUDE

Silverberg,Robert

Garfinkle, Gwynne

Nurenberg, David

YOLEN, JANE

Latta, D.K.

Alter, Seth

Beaulier, Patrick

Dyen-Shapiro, Allan

Eden, Hunter C.

Grozny, Isak

McDaniel, C. L.

Nicholls, Jack

Sparber, Max

Verskin, Milton

World Literature

ChiZine Publications

Ricochet is a bilingual collection of word sonnets by one of the chief innovators of the form, Seymour Mayne. It includes three sequences of pithy and evocative poems that encapsulate moments of sharp perception while also drawing attention to instants of humour that suddenly appear in daily life.  Concise and visual in effect, word sonnets are fourteen line poems, with one word per line. Frequently allusive and imagistic, they can also be irreverent and playful. While informed by other short poetry forms such as the Haiku, Mayne’s word sonnets are deeply influenced by the Talmudic tradition of maxims, proverbs and images that instruct and inform everyday life. Presented with an excellent translation of the poems into French, Ricochet is a unique volume that showcases this innovative new form. The collection also includes a short preface by the poet and an introductory essay by the translator on the challenges of translating word sonnets.  Ricochet est un recueil bilingue de sonnets d’un mot écrits par l’un des principaux innovateurs de cette forme poétique, Seymour Mayne. On y trouve trois séries de poèmes piquants et évocateurs, qui recèlent des moments de perception aiguë, tout en attirant l’attention sur des instants d’humour surgissant tout à coup dans la vie quotidienne. Les sonnets d’un mot sont des poèmes de quatorze lignes, concis, ayant un mot par ligne, et à l’effet visuel certain. Souvent elliptiques et imagés, ils s’avèrent aussi parfois irrévérencieux et taquins. Bien qu’inspirés par d’autres formes de courts poèmes, comme le haïku, les sonnets de Seymour Mayne sont profondément liés à la tradition talmudique des maximes, proverbes et images qui éclairent la vie quotidienne. Présentant une excellente traduction des poèmes en français, Ricochet est un livre unique qui met en valeur cette nouvelle forme littéraire. L’ouvrage comprend également une courte préface du poète et une introduction de la traductrice sur les défis que comporte la traduction de sonnets d’un mot.

Ricochet: Word Sonnets - Sonnets d'un mot

Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa

Fourteen lines, fourteen words – one poem. Quatorze lignes, quatorze mots – un poème.

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