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Coherence Across a Sprawl of Forms

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don’t get lonely don’t get lost, by Elisabeth Belliveau, Conundrum Press

by Matthew Surridge
30.08.2010

“No one suspects my music to have such precise references,” writes Elisabeth Belliveau, but it is precise references that give form to the work in her new collection, don’t get lonely don’t get lost. Poems, drawings, and animation (on an enclosed DVD) are assembled into one package, and Belliveau’s imagery unites it into a whole. [...]

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A Passionate Thinker About Place

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A Place in Mind, by Avi Friedman, Véhicule Press

by Joni Dufour
29.08.2010

Writer Avi Friedman is an award-winning housing innovator and professor at McGill University’s School of Architecture who, through his many books and lectures, has proved his passionate dedication to the business of roofs-over-heads, both private and public.

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Hooked, Line and Sinker

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Hooked on Canadian Books, by T.F. Rigelhof, Cormorant Books

by Marianne Ackerman
22.08.2010

Northrop Frye created something of a revolution in Canadian literature by refusing to play the rating game. He treated fiction as a collective body of work, identified themes, links to the Western canon and what it all had to say about the Canadian psyche.

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Boy and Girl Break Up

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Isobel and Emile, by Alan Reed, Coach House Books

by Justin Scherer
09.08.2010

He is alone. She is alone. They meet each other. They eat meals together. They are nervous. They laugh. They enjoy romance. They begin to trust. They fall in love… And it usually stops there; the typical two-become-one love story endemic to our popular discourse. In his novel, Isobel and Emile, Alan Reed upends the [...]

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Forever Young

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The End of the Ice Age, by Terence Young, Biblioasis

by Mark Paterson
07.08.2010

Contrary to the codes of cliché, there’s more to men at midlife than Ferraris and pharmaceuticals. In his fifth book, the excellent short story collection The End of the Ice Age, Terence Young trains his sharp eye on the tricky state of being between young and old. His meaningful stories catalogue an array of possible [...]

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Teaching Old Words New Tricks

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(made), by Cara Benson, BookThug

by Abby Paige
01.08.2010

While distinctly innovative and post-modern in its approach, Cara Benson’s first full-length collection of poems, (made), harkens back to an artistic impulse a century old. In 1915, Marcel Duchamp painted his name and the title “En prévision du bras cassé” on an ordinary snow shovel, giving birth to the ready-made. In the years that followed, [...]

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Imperial Bored Rooms

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Imperial Bedrooms, by Bret Easton Ellis, Knopf Canada

by Adam Kelly
26.07.2010

When a writer unflinchingly exposes a world they know, however dark, they are doing a service to the literary arts. Bret Easton Ellis says his first novel Less Than Zero, with its harrowing portrayal of 1980s Los Angeles rich kids and their desensitization to drugs, violence and sexual depravity, is “(not) a perfect book by [...]

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To Love an Imperfect Poem

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To Love a Palestinian Woman, by Ehab Lotayef, TSAR Publications

by Leila Marshy
25.07.2010

Poetry, like love, cheapens when not deeply true or almost perfect. Embracing the unloved lover is a small torture, an excruciating ennui. Similarly painful is cracking open a book of poetry that doesn’t immediately slay you. Arguably the worst reaction one can have to that person beside you, to that poem on the page, is [...]

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When the Circus Has Left Town

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Circus, by Michael Harris, Signal Editions

by Roger Sauls
21.07.2010

In Federico Fellini’s early Realist film, La Strada, he uses a provincial carnival troupe as a vehicle to explore the performer’s mask, especially what he shows as the contradictions inherent in the lives of those who assume false faces for the amusement of strangers.  The strong man of the troupe, played with great sensitivity by [...]

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