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 Divisadero (Vintage International)Best Price: $5.99 Michael Ondaatje is an excellent writer and story teller, and this book displays all of his... |  The English PatientBest Price: $1.39 In reviewing Michael Ondaatje's recent novel DIVISADERO, I remarked that his narrative technique... |  Book of LongingBest Price: $5.99 by Leonard Cohen, is well worth the read: That's How the Light Gets In: Memoir of a... |  Running in the FamilyBest Price: $4.94 Ondaatje seems to be trying too hard. The language is overly flowery and the plot is often lost... |  Beautiful LosersBest Price: $8.43 That's How the Light Gets In: Memoir of a Psychiatrist by Susan Rako, M.D. Fans of Cohen will... |
 Anil's Ghost: A NovelBest Price: $3.95 Ondaatje is a bit of a mystery to me - I hated "The English Patient" but loved... |  The Favorite GameBest Price: $8.44 Leonard Cohen's "Anthem." That's How the Light Gets In: Memoir of a Psychiatrist by... |  Book of MercyBest Price: $6.25 Because I had bought and read his latest book I decided to buy an old one. Since his songs are... |  Dance Me to the End of Love (Art & Poetry)Best Price: $11.17 comes from "Anthem" by Leonard Cohen, is well worth the read: That's How the Light... |  Autobiography of RedBest Price: $7.14 "Autobiography of Red" by Ann Carson is worth the read simply because of its unique... |
 Eros the BittersweetBest Price: $7.57 Anna Carson is brilliant, the arguments set forth in her book are incredibly valid and... |  Let Us Compare MythologiesBest Price: $11.24 It is That's How the Light Gets In: Memoir of a Psychiatrist by Susan Rako, M.D. Fans of... |  In the Skin of a LionBest Price: $4.99 I cannot say that I fell in love with this book upon first reading--in fact, had I not been... |  Paris Stories (New York Review Books Classics)Best Price: $7.50 "Paris Stories" is an amazing collection of short stories by Mavis Gallant, who is... |  The DoorBest Price: $13.74 Margaret Atwood's THE DOOR could very well have been subtitled UNSENTIMENTAL ELEGIES: the same... |
 The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 TangosBest Price: $7.94 A book that captures the beauty and difficulty of love, relationship, and time, more than any I... |  The Collected Works of Billy the KidBest Price: $7.26 This is one of the most disgusting books I have ever been forced to read. I believe college... |  If Not, Winter: Fragments of SapphoBest Price: $8.44 mary barnard's translations of sappho's fragments are most musical (i discovered barnard via a... |  Glass, Irony and GodBest Price: $7.91 While experimental verse often risks feeling contrived or convoluted, Anne Carson's ambitious... |  Coming Through SlaughterBest Price: $4.98 In light of the confusion of the use of the term "Creole" in this book, readers must... |
 Plainwater: Essays and PoetryBest Price: $7.92 Anne Carson comes from the genre of poetry, but in this book she has mixed that form with essays... |  DecreationBest Price: $8.46 Decreation is coy, playful, obscure, difficult & profound. In other words - it is... |  The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese PoetryBest Price: $10.10 This is a superb anthology several times over. First and foremost, it brings together in one... |  The Best of Robert ServiceBest Price: $6.77 I was actually very disappointed with the condition of this book when I received it. It had been... |  Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (New York Review Books Classics)Best Price: $11.88 This translation of four plays by Euripedes is brilliant, clean and clear, without pretension. ... |
 The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected PoemsBest Price: $7.50 I had the opportunity to hear Michael Ondaatje read his poem 'The Concessions' from this book at... |  River Thieves: A NovelBest Price: $2.98 In "River Thieves," which is set in the early nineteenth century, English and Irish... |  As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories (New Canadian Library)Best Price: $3.85 The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the... |  The StoryBest Price: $2.20 .....We are told on the first page of "THE STORY". Children are given forty days... |  What the Stones Remember: A Life RediscoveredBest Price: $5.79 DEPRESSING BUT HOPEFUL BOOK ABOUT RECOVERY FROM DRUG AND ALCOLHOL ADDICTION AND RETURN TO... |
 Electra (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)Best Price: $4.00 The love of her father, her murdered father, is a sort of madness. Electra notes that Niobe... |  Men in the Off HoursBest Price: $6.39 I understand the attraction to Anne Carson. I like experimental poetry, too. I like... |  Economy of the Unlost: (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) (Martin Classical Lectures)Best Price: $11.53 This book is unusual in many ways. Firstly, it dares to compare Simonides of Keos, a Greek poet... |  Up in the TreeBest Price: $8.63 Two children rejoice in their home up in a tree, free from parental guidance and earthbound... |  Short Fiction by 33 Writers: 3 x 33Best Price: $55.45 I had this book as a textbook for a literature course and absolutely loved it. The stories are... |
 A Map of GlassBest Price: $8.20 I had mixed feelings about this book, but by the end I really liked it. It was a very... |  Various Positions: A Life of Leonard CohenThe condition of the used book was just as described, shipping was quick. I am very happy with... |  Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad PoetryBest Price: $0.79 I loved this book. The many angst ridden poems ranged from funny to just plain bad, but all of... |  Morning in the Burned HouseBest Price: $2.17 The title poem leads us to Atwood's dense, ironic world: "In the burned house I am eating... |  Death of a Lady's Manthis is one of the best books ever written. there is no one who is as honest as cohen when it... |
 itBest Price: $10.69 Inger Christensen's masterpiece it , translated brilliantly by Susanna Nied, and with an... |  Fidelity: StoriesBest Price: $1.82 Michael Redhill came to Newfoundland, for the March Hare writers weekend last year. He is such... |  The Haiku AnthologyBest Price: $10.10 To say that all the poems in the anthology are haiku is really an exaggeration. Many are the... |  CrystallographyBest Price: $8.94 This is a fascinating book exploring language through crystallography that fits nicely into the... |  The UnderpainterBest Price: $1.94 A difficult novel to summarize based on its plot (which spans decades), its characters (which... |
 The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin BlaserBest Price: $35.00 You don't want to miss the new version of Robin Blaser's lifework THE HOLY FOREST, now... |  Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986Best Price: $3.68 I picked this book up randomly, being a fan of her novels but not familiar with her complete... |  My Spirit SoarsBest Price: $14.00 |  Night Work: The Sawchuk PoemsBest Price: $12.48 A hockey saga, wrapping the game's story in the "intense, moody, contradictory&3quot;... |  Selected Poems: 1965-1975Best Price: $3.22 Margaret Atwood holds up a knife. She flashes it in the light of the reader. She traces it along... |
 Away: A NovelBest Price: $0.81 This novel is ultimately a disappointment because it starts off with such potential. Indeed, if... |  The Poetry of Lucy Maud MontgomeryBest Price: $6.37 |  She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly BreaksBest Price: $89.36 |  The Stone CarversBest Price: $0.01 It's been 5 years since I read the book and longer ago that I had wanted to visit the Vimy... |  The Predicament of OrBest Price: $7.23 Celebrated novelist Shani Mootoo, author of the award-winning Cereus Blooms at Night, turns her... |
 Haiku Moment: An Anthology of Contemporary North American HaikuBest Price: $5.60 If you have ever wondered about the reality of the "haiku moment", this collection of... |  Handwriting: PoemsBest Price: $5.27 Michael Ondaaatje walks with you into his Sri Lanka where the richness there inspires the lush... |  A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected PoemsBest Price: $10.94 A Wild Peculiar Joy is Irving Layton’s poetic testament. Hailed as the great lyric... |  Pieces of Map, Pieces of MusicBest Price: $7.08 | |
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