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  • Mirror Images

    Reflections on a Life in the Media

    by Alan J. Yates ...
    Take an unusual and wry look at the mass media by joining an industry insider who recalls the high and low points of an almost forty-year career. Alan J. Yates, a media professional and academic, dissects the media business as a consumer, theorist, and participant. He observes that we tend to be literate when it comes to information technology but often illiterate regarding media process and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Flickerings

    A Collection of Poetry

    by Alan J. Yates ...
    Flickerings is not just an unusual and multi-faceted collection of the author's poetry. While he uses the poetry form to tackle often disturbing themes, such as the search for the meaning of life, death among family and friends and even large social issues such as consumerism and the environment, he does so with delicacy, wry humour and, through, a love of the musicality of the 'language' of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • "W.O. Mitchell's Jake & the Kid: the Popular Radio Play as Art & Social Comment."

    by Alan J. Yates ...
    W.O. Mitchell's "Jake & The Kid" captivated radio audiences in the days before television and enjoyed ratings that rivalled those for the radio broadcasts of the CBC's "Hockey Night in Canada." These homespun tales about the hired hand, Jake Trumper and his sidekick, The Kid, explored very human stories about life on the often cruel Prairies of Saskatchewan in a humorous vein that made a household ... Read more

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  • Rimbaud: the Works

    A Season in Hell; Poems & Prose; Illuminations

    CHARLES NICHOLL, author of SOMEBODY ELSE: ARTHUR RIMBAUD IN AFRICA 1880-91 has written of Dennis J. Carlile's translation of RIMBAUD:THE WORKS."These are the best renditions of Rimbaud in English since Wallace Fowlie's nearly forty years ago, and many of them surpass that high standard. These poems have been wrestled with, which is the very least they demand, and successfully brought back home. ... Read more

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  • The Canadaland Guide to Canada

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  • No Logo

    No Space, No Choice, No Jobs

    by Naomi Klein ...
    A Tenth Anniversary Edition of Naomi Klein's No Logo with a New Introduction by the AuthorNO LOGO was an international bestseller and "a movement bible" (The New York Times). Naomi Klein's second book, The Shock Doctrine, was hailed as a "master narrative of our time," and has over a million copies in print worldwide.In the last decade, No Logo has become an international phenomenon and a cultural ... Read more

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  • Edwin Morgan: Collected Poems

    by Edwin Morgan ...
    This collection of lyric epiphanies reveals the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily relocation of words in concrete poems, and the weird rhythms of sound poems. The poet's transforming imagination is democratic, generous, and inclusive. Even the sonnet form becomes a new experiment for a poet of questing and anarchic vision, unwilling to rest on rules. This volume includes Poems of Thirty ... Read more

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  • Anterooms

    New Poems and Translations

    Poetry lovers and critics will rejoice at the news of this collection from Richard Wilbur, the legendary poet and translator who was called “a hero to a new generation of critics” by the New York Times Book Review, and whose work continues to be masterful, accomplished, whimsical, fresh, and important.A yellow-striped, green measuring worm opens Anterooms, a collection filled with poems that are ... Read more

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  • The Eighth Day: Selected Writings of Christian Bobin

    Christian Bobin is one of the most prolific and best-selling inspirational writers in France. His ‘lyric essays’, neither prose nor poetry, utilise a limited vocabulary manipulated with the precision of a watchmaker. Bobin often obtains his effects through startling juxtapositions of the ordinary, aimed straight at the heart and not without the intention of drawing blood. Prevalent themes in his ... Read more

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  • Hotel Lautréamont

    Poems

    by John Ashbery ...
    In John Ashbery's haunting 1992 collection, just as in the traveler's experience of a hotel, we recognize everything, and yet nothing is familiar—not even ourselvesHotel Lautréamont invites readers to reimagine a book of poems as a collection of hotel rooms: each one empty until we enter it, and yet in truth abundantly furnished with associations, necessities, and echoes of both the known and the ... Read more

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  • About to Spring (The Joy of Everything)

    We feel a little trickle - Springtime start to tickle; then, we start to explore - Springtime pushing at our door; and now we start to hear Spring's vibrant humming atmosphere and it becomes so clear: Spring's no slouch defender - it's on a mighty joy bender. ... Read more

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