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A Clown in a Grave
Using a number of critical approaches, Michael Skau examines Gregory Corso’s complex imagination, his humor, and his poetic techniques in dealing with America, the Beat generation, and death. Skau covers…
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All the Broken Things
Geoff Inverarity writes poems for people who don’t like poetry (and those who do).In this debut collection Inverarity writes of broken things, things that have come apart at the seams,…
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Becoming Ebony
Recapturing the celebratory voice of Africa in poems that are both contemporary and traditional, Liberian-born Patricia Jabbeh Wesley weaves lyrical storytelling with oral history and images of Africa and America,…
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Behind the Tree Backs
Translated by Jennifer Hayashida. BEHIND THE TREE BACKS investigates a poetics of remembrance through senses that hover just below and just above the skin. The text excavates war and displacement…
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Bloodwarm
Bloodwarm is a collection that explores what it’s like to live in a Black body that is constantly scrutinized and dissected beneath the white gaze. These poems both utilize and…
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Butcher’s Dozen
To mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and its commemoration in Derry in January 2022, Carcanet is proud to publish a new edition of Thomas Kinsella’s Butcher’s Dozen, with…
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Coming to Canada
In a record breaking “hat trick,” Carol Shields was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel,The Stone Diaries, the Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction, and was shortlisted for…
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Dark Alphabet
In works whose subjects range from the religious to the carnal, the whimsical to the foreboding,Jennifer Maier’s debut collection of poems,Dark Alphabet, explores the everyday mysteries of our common experience…
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Dearest Water
Nancy Takacs is a poet in love with places, desert areas once home to ancient seas in the Colorado Plateau in Utah, and bodies of water, like Lake Superior, and…