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  • Time Slip

    by John Oughton ...
    Drawn from the author's 60-year journey through the Middle East, Japan, and North America, this collection of poems offers a variety of engaging styles, ranging from sonnets to haiku to free-form experimentation, while considering the implications of technology, science, and nature in the context of the 21st century. Including previously published works as well as unpublished new works, each piece ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Higher Teaching

    A Handbook for New Post-secondary Faculty

    by John Oughton ...
    Series Book 29 - MiroLand
    A practical guide for new college and university faculty.Higher Teaching is designed to equip new post-secondary instructors with essential tools and knowledge for effective teaching. Divided into two parts, it covers practical strategies from course outline preparation to classroom management, and theoretical foundations including adult education principles. Learn how to create a positive ... Read more

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  • The Cinnamon Peeler

    Selected Poems

    by Michael Ondaatje ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Michael Ondaatje’s selected poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and novelist. ... Read more

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  • Endpoint and Other Poems

    by John Updike ...
    A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.The opening sequence, “Endpoint,”is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness. He looks back on the boy that he was, on the family, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Reinvention of the Human Hand

    by Paul Vermeersch ...
    Paul Vermeersch’s new poems give a present-day voice to primitive song, and restore to us a dawn-time severity that cuts through modern evasions. They go beyond sophistication to reveal the passionate and suffering animal within. The Reinvention of the Human Hand is a poetry of the human body’s experience, of a primal being that struggles to assert itself, or perhaps just survive, in a world of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • American Poetry

    States of the Art

    by Bradford Morrow ...
    Series Book 35 - Conjunctions
    " Conjunctions offers a showplace for some of the most exciting and demanding writers now at work." — The Washington PostWith work from the seventy-five poets who are the game-changing, bar-setting voices of our time first published in this volume, Conjunctions: 35, American Poetry is the definitive collection for the contemporary poetic landscape. Includes astonishing uncollected work from ... Read more

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  • The Apple That Astonished Paris

    Poems

    by Billy Collins ...
    In 1988 the University of Arkansas Press published Billy Collins’s The Apple That Astonished Paris, his “first real book of poems,” as he describes it in a new, delightful preface written expressly for this new printing to help celebrate both the Press’s twenty-fifth anniversary and this book, one of the Press’s all-time best sellers. In his usual witty and dry style, Collins writes, “I gathered ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Selected Poems 1983–2020

    by Steven Heighton ...
    This collection of new and previously published poems by Steven Heighton, author of the Governor General’s Literary Award winner The Waking Comes Late**, showcases a defining lyric poet of his generation.**Selected Poems 1983–2020 is Steven Heighton’s seventh volume of poetry and the first since his Governor General’s Literary Award–winning collection, The Waking Comes Late. Incorporating a ... Read more

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  • Strike/Slip

    by Don McKay ...
    In this extraordinary collection from one of our most celebrated poets, Don McKay walks the strike-slip fault between poetry and landscape, sticks its strange nose into the cold silence of geologic time, meditates on marble, quartz and gneiss, and attends to the songs of ravens and thrushes and to the clamour of the industrialized bush. Behind these poems lies the urge to engage the tectonics of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • bury it

    by sam sax ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    sam sax's bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begins with poems written in response to the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer of 2010. What follows are raw and expertly crafted meditations on death, rituals of passage, translation, desire, diaspora, and personhood. What's at stake is survival itself and the archiving of a ... Read more

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  • A Report for an Academy

    by Franz Kafka ...
    A Report to an Academy (German: Ein Bericht für eine Akademie) is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. In the story, an ape named Red Peter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story of how he effected his transformation. The story was first published by Martin Buber in the German monthly Der Jude, along with another of Kafka's stories, ... Read more

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  • Sanskrit of the Body

    by W. B. Keckler ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    In this mesmerizing debut collection, chosen by Mary Oliver for the National Poetry Series, we’re witness to an expansive travelogue of the human spirit that moves throughtfully through multiples ages, cultures, and beings. Each poem explores in depth, through pensive, evocative images, aspects of the human condition and their place within the rich continuum of animal existence. W.B. Keckler ... Read more

    $15.99 USD