Those familiar with Stan Dragland's work recognize an author who works in protean literary forms. Journeys Through Bookland is about how we educate ourselves and the influences that guide us - fairy tales, individual teachers, family life , dreams and nightmares. Stan Dragland is at his most moving in this book. He makes fiction out of all these sources, so that by the end an individual and a true voice emerge.

Journeys Through Bookland and Other Passages

Literature & Fiction

Dragland, Stan

Poetry

Brick Books

A book of poems by the author of Winter Sun, The Dumbfounding and No Time.

Sunblue

Avison, Margaret

"Avison's new volume is a lyrical tribute to a created order suffused with a holy energy--a vitality inaccessible to the statisticians, the engineers, the corporate mandarins. It is not, however, a whimsical, Pollyanish ecstacy that sustains her, but a gritty religious vision grounded in our desperate humanity, the 'roped-in, rotten, / welted and swollen, sick, / tempter-take-all/ maggot- ripe end of our fall' ('He himself suffered when he was tempted'), but redeemed, generously redeemed." (Michael Higgins)

No Time

A sequence of elegiac poems by the least recognized major poet in Canada, celebrating place all the way to glory.

Ten Letters

Thibaudeau, Colleen

This anthology cuts into the Canadian poetry scene on a fresh, oblique angle. Included are Robert Bringhurst, Margaret Avison, A.F. Moritz, Guy Birchard, Terry Humby, Alexander Hutchinson and Brent MacKay.

News and Weather

God's Geography (Time is the Metaphor)

Gutteridge, Don

Complex, intricately textured and polyphonic, this sequence of five long poems enacts the fulfilment of poetry and philosophy in one another. "In Schiller's terms, it is the elegiac longing for unity of soul and world, here expressed in some of the most beautiful poetry of 1986." -- Ronald B. Hatch, University of Toronto Quarterly

Wittgenstein Elegies

Zwicky, Jan

<p>From Microphones there will be no returning to the standard detective story. This long poem/videotext ticks right along on its narrative marginalia alone, but its substance is an interplay of voices and its essence is high-density song.</p>

Microphones

Kazuk, A.R.

History & Criticism

In these passionate poems, this long poem, there is a story (there are stories) which a reader mines out of a landscape of language moulded under great pressure and eloquent of the stresses that formed it. This is non-representational work of great concentration and beauty."The skill and intense ardor of the mind at work ... is delightful. The least one can learn from poetry that makes sweet music of the intelligence is that we can still measure, have measure." -- Fred Wah, Books in Canada

Abraham

Browne, Colin

In powerful language that reflects the conflicts between the primitive and the sophisticated, Joan Crate redreams the passions which animated and tormented her famous predecessor. Part white, part Mohawk princess, Pauline Johnson /Tekahionwake would perform her poems first in buckskin, then, after the intermission, in silk.

Pale as Real Ladies: Poems for Pauline Johnson

Crate, Joan

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