The Elephant's Chiropractor: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Rothman, David J.

Poetry

Conundrum Press

Large print, hardcover with jacket, poems by David J. Rothman, Paintings by Michael H. Rothman and Cynthia Min.

Beauty at Night

Children's Books

Mark Todd is the New West incarnate. In Wire Song, Todd's first collection, each poem brings another element of contemporary life in the rural West into focus. Many poems detail the difficult, sometimes comical, sometimes beautiful, and sometimes heartbreaking work of ranching, telling stories of everything from the death of a foal to the arrival of spring, from what kind of hat to wear on the job to the traditional work of a farrier day. In his longer narrative poems, Todd recounts a present in which dirt bikers and ranchers collide (guess who wins), and a past in which he reimagines one of his own notorious forebears, John Wesley Hardin, at the moment he decides to take the path of crime and violence. Throughout Todd's work, there is a delicate balance between the facts of nature and the domesticating work of man, in which something as ordinary as barbed wire comes to embody an entire way of life.

Wire Song

Todd, Mark

Walkups

Blomgren, Lance

Montreal has been called the spoken word capital of North America. What is it about this city which attracts such a unique breed of performance art? This ambitious book is a look at the theory and practice of spoken word as told to the authors by 75 French and English performers, as well as New York poet John Giorno. It also documents the history of the vibrant spoken word scene in Montreal from 1960 to the present. It serves as an invaluable resource for those interested in the medium which has single-handedly revitalized poetry for a new generation. Impure makes a perfect text book for Cultural Studies and English departments across North America!

Impure: Reinventing the Word--The Theory, Practice, and Oral History of 'Spoken Word' in Montreal

Politics & Social Sciences

Stanton, Victoria

Tinguely, Vincent

Social Sciences

Sea Peach, the highly-anticipated new collaboration between Catherine Kidd and Jack Beetz, features a collection of interlinked pieces which constitute a bonsai performance version of Kidd's novel Missing the Ark. The stories and poems focus on themes of memory and zoo animals, chickens and global warming, a giant leech that sucks up the whole world, and a gentler creature, the Sea Peach, who might inspire humans to restore the world to itself. Through voice, image, sound and text this CD/book recreates these performances. A lovely package, Sea Peach can sit on either your CD rack or your bookshelf.The CD is produced by Wired on Words  .Winner of the MECCA 2003 for Best New Text!Voted Best Spoken Word Artist in Montreal Mirror!

Sea Peach

Kidd, Catherine

My Own Devices is a concept book: a series of stories in which the main character, Corey Frost, is left to his own devices in Japan, St. Petersburg, Sumatra, Macau, Montreal, and other locations. His devices include various telephones, cameras, tiny Japanese cars and mini-disc recorders, as well as a backpack full of witty, occasionally satirical literary gimmicks. It's a fun, irreverent take on the first-collection cliché, full of post-colonial unpredictability and tinged with début-de-siècle angst.

My Own Devices

Travel

Frost, Corey

Travel Writing

In a vivid mixture of Saturday morning cartoons, 'anti-globalisation' politics and stream of consciousness hallucinations, the graphic novel Enter Avariz is both a light-hearted romp through the travails of our technologically obsessed civilization and a sinister peek into the greedy bowels of a parasitic culture. Included are 8 spectacular foldout pages.

Enter Avariz

Comics & Graphic Novels

Ngui, Marc

Graphic Novels

Cyclops is the work of twenty-five highly prolific, award-winning, mature Canadian artists. Consisting of longer graphic narratives the book allows these artists room to express themselves within a medium which fuses the form of the graphic narrative with the conventions of the short story. The stories relate to the human condition and are told through a variety of approaches including humour, autobiography, poetry, philosophy, legend and myth. Some of these artists are well known in North America as well but for most of the French artists this book will be the first showcasing of their work in English. Cyclops is the English version of the popular and critically-acclaimed series of Cyclopes books which have represented Quebec culture abroad. Publishing their innovative work in translation will finally provide an opportunity for these artists to be appreciated in the rest of North America.

Cyclops: Contemporary Canadian Narrative Art

paperback, essays and poetry by Zsolt, foreword by David J. Rothman

Living, Loving, and Other Heresies

Biographies & Memoirs

Zsolt

Community & Culture

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