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An Orange, A Syllable

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The latest book by Gillian Sze, author of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award–winning book Quiet Night ThinkThis prosimetrical work is a meditation on motherhood, language, and art. The central speaker witnesses the earliest utterances of her child and launches into a poetic inquiry of words themselves, asking, How to measure one’s mouth by its words? The speaker seeks an answer amidst the language ... Read more

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The latest book by Gillian Sze, author of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award–winning book Quiet Night ThinkThis prosimetrical work is a meditation on motherhood, language, and art. The central speaker witnesses the earliest utterances of her child and launches into a poetic inquiry of words themselves, asking, How to measure one’s mouth by its words? The speaker seeks an answer amidst the language
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Quiet Night Think

Poems & Essays

by Gillian Sze ...

“Quiet Night Think is a stunning work.” — Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing“One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and feeling what seems to him to be poetry at that time,” writes Wallace Stevens. In Quiet Night Think, award-winning poet Gillian Sze expresses her own definition.During the remarkable period of early parenthood, Sze’s new maternal ... Read more

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“Quiet Night Think is a stunning work.” — Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing“One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and feeling what seems to him to be poetry at that time,” writes Wallace Stevens. In Quiet Night Think, award-winning poet Gillian Sze expresses her own definition.During the remarkable period of early parenthood, Sze’s new maternal
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Ah Ma's Home

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Illustrated by Leah Hong ...

A child worries that the home she now shares with her grandma can’t compare to the wondrous stories of Ah Ma’s childhood in China.Back in Ah Ma’s village, they didn’t have snow. The river behind her home flowed from the sky and through the mountains. You’d never tasted anything so clear and so cold.Back in Ah Ma’s village, they didn’t have geese. They had birds washed in rainbows. And if you fed ... Read more

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A child worries that the home she now shares with her grandma can’t compare to the wondrous stories of Ah Ma’s childhood in China.Back in Ah Ma’s village, they didn’t have snow. The river behind her home flowed from the sky and through the mountains. You’d never tasted anything so clear and so cold.Back in Ah Ma’s village, they didn’t have geese. They had birds washed in rainbows. And if you fed
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When Sunlight Tiptoes

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Illustrated by Soyeon Kim ...

Key Selling PointsThe story is a celebration of morning and follows a family along a city street as they run errands, enjoying the rich urban sounds and sights of a new day.The text is written in pantoum form (Malayan in origin). Similar to the villanelle, the pantoum is a closed form that is characterized by its quatrains, repetition and rhyme scheme.The meticulous illustration process for this ... Read more

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Key Selling PointsThe story is a celebration of morning and follows a family along a city street as they run errands, enjoying the rich urban sounds and sights of a new day.The text is written in pantoum form (Malayan in origin). Similar to the villanelle, the pantoum is a closed form that is characterized by its quatrains, repetition and rhyme scheme.The meticulous illustration process for this
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The Little Green Envelope

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Illustrated by Claudine Crangle ...

A little green envelope longs to go on a journey. Will it be chosen to deliver Olive’s letter to her far-away friend?Olive’s friend has moved away, and Olive wishes she could visit her. A little green envelope, lost in the bottom of the desk drawer, knows how Olive feels. It, too, wants so much to travel, and imagines zipping up and down conveyer belts and bouncing along in a mail bag, on its way ... Read more

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A little green envelope longs to go on a journey. Will it be chosen to deliver Olive’s letter to her far-away friend?Olive’s friend has moved away, and Olive wishes she could visit her. A little green envelope, lost in the bottom of the desk drawer, knows how Olive feels. It, too, wants so much to travel, and imagines zipping up and down conveyer belts and bouncing along in a mail bag, on its way
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My Love for You Is Always

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Illustrated by Michelle Lee ...

Warm like tea? Sweeter than red dates? A mother shares her love for her child as the two prepare a delicious meal together--perfect for fans of Guess How Much I Love You, Wherever You Are My Love Will Find You, and Mama, Do You Love Me?What is love? a child wonders. What does it feel like, smell like, taste like? How does it move? How long does it last?And as she prepares a traditional Chinese ... Read more

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Warm like tea? Sweeter than red dates? A mother shares her love for her child as the two prepare a delicious meal together--perfect for fans of Guess How Much I Love You, Wherever You Are My Love Will Find You, and Mama, Do You Love Me?What is love? a child wonders. What does it feel like, smell like, taste like? How does it move? How long does it last?And as she prepares a traditional Chinese
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Anatomy of Clay The

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Taking off from the Promethean myth of human creation Gillian Szes second poetry collection explores the “anatomy of clay” and the individual as a sentient mystery. At times reflective instructional playful or strange the first section Quotidianus offers observational poems which recount intimate and ordinary moments often missed overlooked or forgotten. Sze tugs at the fabric of habit and amidst ... Read more

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Taking off from the Promethean myth of human creation Gillian Szes second poetry collection explores the “anatomy of clay” and the individual as a sentient mystery. At times reflective instructional playful or strange the first section Quotidianus offers observational poems which recount intimate and ordinary moments often missed overlooked or forgotten. Sze tugs at the fabric of habit and amidst
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You Are My Favorite Color

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Illustrated by Nina Mata ...

A lyrical story of parental love that celebrates and takes pride in the many shades of brown skin. Perfect for fans of I Am Enough, Hey Black Child, Hair Love, and Our Skin.When you ask me why your skin is brown,I will tell you that you are my favorite color.I will say that your skin was decided long, long ago.Time was just waiting for you.So begins a mother’s celeb... ... Read more

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A lyrical story of parental love that celebrates and takes pride in the many shades of brown skin. Perfect for fans of I Am Enough, Hey Black Child, Hair Love, and Our Skin.When you ask me why your skin is brown,I will tell you that you are my favorite color.I will say that your skin was decided long, long ago.Time was just waiting for you.So begins a mother’s celeb...
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The Night Is Deep and Wide

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Illustrated by Sue Todd ...

★ “A lovely visual lullaby to soothe youngest readers to sleep.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewRich imagery, gentle rhythm and soothing repetition will lull your little one to sleep as the tulips close for the night, one by one. In this bedtime story written as an Italian villanelle, poet Gillian Sze makes use of the poetic forms of cyclic pattern and rhyme scheme to create a melodious lullaby ... Read more

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★ “A lovely visual lullaby to soothe youngest readers to sleep.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewRich imagery, gentle rhythm and soothing repetition will lull your little one to sleep as the tulips close for the night, one by one. In this bedtime story written as an Italian villanelle, poet Gillian Sze makes use of the poetic forms of cyclic pattern and rhyme scheme to create a melodious lullaby
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Panicle

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“Succulent in its excellence, Sze’s poetry insists that cultural ‘difference’ is what can make a beautiful difference in our apprehension of the ‘beautiful.’” — George Elliott Clarke on Peeling RambutanIn Panicle, Gillian Sze makes her readers look and, more importantly, look again. It’s a collection that challenges our notion of seeing as a passive or automatic activity by asking us to question ... Read more

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“Succulent in its excellence, Sze’s poetry insists that cultural ‘difference’ is what can make a beautiful difference in our apprehension of the ‘beautiful.’” — George Elliott Clarke on Peeling RambutanIn Panicle, Gillian Sze makes her readers look and, more importantly, look again. It’s a collection that challenges our notion of seeing as a passive or automatic activity by asking us to question
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The Rupture Tense

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*** 2023 PEN OAKLAND JOSEPHINE MILES BOOK AWARD WINNER ** FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY ** FINALIST FOR THE 2023 BALCONES PRIZE FOR POETRY *The astounding second collection by Jenny Xie, “a magician of perspective and scale” (The New Yorker)**Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and ... Read more

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*** 2023 PEN OAKLAND JOSEPHINE MILES BOOK AWARD WINNER ** FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY ** FINALIST FOR THE 2023 BALCONES PRIZE FOR POETRY *The astounding second collection by Jenny Xie, “a magician of perspective and scale” (The New Yorker)**Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and
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Swollening

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Jason Purcell is a writer and musician from amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6, (Edmonton, Alberta), where they are also the co-owner of Glass Bookshop. As a chronically ill writer, they write at the intersection of queerness and illness and is the author of the chapbook A Place More Hospitable (Anstruther Press). Swollening is their first full-length collection. ... Read more

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Jason Purcell is a writer and musician from amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6, (Edmonton, Alberta), where they are also the co-owner of Glass Bookshop. As a chronically ill writer, they write at the intersection of queerness and illness and is the author of the chapbook A Place More Hospitable (Anstruther Press). Swollening is their first full-length collection.
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