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The Art of Second Language Conversation
When I talk to my new friend Tom, we're not just talking-- we're metatalking. When I ask him how he's enjoying the weather, he tells me he is not enjoying it at all because it has too many future...
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Description and Excess
An interview with Carmine Starnino Carmine Starnino. Photo: Terence Byrnes, Véhicule PressCarmine Starnino's third poetry collection, With English Subtitles, was published by Gaspereau Press in 2004,...
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Inhabiting the Historical Houdini
Anatomy of Keys: Poems Steven Price Brick Books: Toronto, 2006. Towards the end of Price's poetic interpretation of the life of the escape-artist Houdini, the speaker says, "the dead do not return, not...
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February Books
New works by MacArthur, Armstrong, McPherson and Glenn Take Us Quietly Tammy Armstrong Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton, 2006.The poems in this book meander: geographically they cover Canada from...
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March Books
New works by Trussler, Adamson, Snider, and Friedman Accidental Animals Michael Trussler Hagios: Regina, 2007.There's an openness to Trussler's stanzas that's oddly relaxing—his speakers seem willing...
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May Books
New works by Wickers, Vuong-Riddick, Boyko and Bryan Stations of the Lost Brian Wickers Mansfield Press: Toronto, 2006.This book offers readers something remarkable: the chance to engage with a...
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September Books
New works by Venart and Stiles Woodshedding S.E. Venart Brick: London, 2007.If her work is any indication, S.E. Venart’s poems are made up of dispatches from a writing life that is underway with...
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November Books
New works by Stifter and Endicott Rock Crystal Adalbert Stifter Translated by Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore New York Review of Books Classics, 2008.Rock Crystal, a 19th-century Austrian story now...
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