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 Black
Rabbit & Other Stories
by Salvatore
Difalco
Black Rabbit & Other Stories is a debut collection of
great intensity and versatility. The stories range from the
fantastic to the gritty, from urban dystopias to worlds of dreamlike
possibility. Even in their frequent explorations of brutality,
the author remains honest and true to the motivations of his
characters and the machinations of the worlds in which they
find themselves. These are sure-footed narratives that move
with a pre-destined deliberation into a universe that is often
fraught with desperation and apparent hopelessness; but, ultimately,
we find ourselves on a path to redemption, an acceptance of
what is, in the final analysis, an incomprehensible matrix.
Existential and reflective, brutal and honest, these are stories
that will leave you questioning the essence of existence, your
own humanity, and that of those around you. This is deft storytelling
from a talented new voice.
 At
Home with History: The Untold Secrets of Heritage Homes
by Eve
Lazarus
Every home has a social history and a genealogy that tells a
tremendous amount about the history of the times and offers
up a sense of place. Current homeowners are only temporary custodians,
part of the chain in the ongoing narrative of the house. People
change, styles change, colours change, cars change, but through
it all, the house remains a central fixture and the structure
for the stories in At Home with History. At Home with
History is a collection of stories that bring to life the
glamorous and not-so-glamorous social histories of selected
heritage homes in Greater Vancouver—stories of brothels and
bootleggers, secret rooms, and Shakespearean-style murders.
An Italian family with four children survives the depression
by selling booze and sandwiches from their east-side home. A
Shaughnessy mansion headquarters the Klu Klux Klan and then
a children's hospice. A secret radio room is uncovered during
renovations. And for the growing number of heritage homebuyers
and renovators, Eve Lazarus's At Home With History includes
a chapter on how to research the social history of your own
home.
I Cut My Finger
by Stuart
Ross
I Cut My Finger is Stuart Ross's first full-length poetry
collection since his acclaimed Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems
New & Selected (2003). The poems here show Ross's ever-expanding
breadth, from his trademark humour and surrealism, to pointedly
experimental works and poems of human anguish. Here, a poet
includes a letter threatening suicide in his submission of poems
to a literary journal; a businessman dons flippers to swim along
the sidewalk to his downtown office; the U.S. military follows
a trail of red ants to glacial redemption; the writer finds
profound joy in a tower of canned niblets. But beneath the slapstick
exterior of so many of Ross's poems there lurk dark threats
and darker pleasures.
"If Stuart Ross were living and working in the United States,
and writing the exact same poetry he does now, he would be rich
and famous. Well, famous at least." —The Globe & Mail
"For a quick and dirty breath of fresh air, it's difficult to
beat renegade urban poet Stuart Ross's latest effort. Confessions
of a Small Press Racketeer is a collection of Ross's impolite,
funny, and occasionally acerbic columns. No reformed baby boomer
or slumming trust-funder, Ross has the battle scars and knows
poetry isn't about flowers and meadows, it's about blood and
guts." —Quill & Quire
Rental
Van
by Clint
Burnham
Burnham's poetry works at the edges of meaning, propriety, and
the commodification of language. Combining elements of found
text—the overheard, the over-read—he recasts his findings in
various combinations that are unique to their presentation on
the page. The essentials of language, how people use it—and
how it uses them—is Burnham's main concern. Whether inspiration
arises from a 1920s newspaper clipping (poems formulated in
the structure of newspaper columns that can be read either horizontally
or vertically), as in "98Ruskin", or grows out of interactions
with street youth in poetry workshops in Vancouver's Downtown
Eastside, "Poverty Pimp," or is diffused from snippets of conversation
on a bus, the nuances of speech—rhythm, inflection, insinuation,
the multiplicity of meaning—get filtered down and assimilated
with the daily hum and buzz of the immediate world around him.
"Chicken Fallujah" and "Rental Van" grew out of a trip to San
Francisco during the spring of 2004, when the U.S. Marine assault
on Fallujah in Iraq was in full swing. In a text replete with
cultural references and riffs on the morphing of language, Burnham
shows us how words are powerful implements that are invariably
wrenched to accommodate the needs of the user. From gang lingo
signifiers to urban iconography, Rental Van demonstrates
that language is indeed the "nurse and oxygen tent of epistemology."
 Transitions
of a Still Life: The Ceramic Work of Tam Irving
by Carol E. Mayer
"I have used clay to project the felt life. I feel more now
than I did yesterday." —Tam Irving
Transitions is a beautifully illustrated book examining
the works of ceramic artist Tam Irving as a unique cultural
activity: one that combines both art and science to express
the subtle content and sensuous tactility of vessel and sculpture.
Irving has lived in British Columbia for the past 50 years,
and during this time, he has been at the heart of the changing
social, political, and cultural relationships that have informed
the development of studio ceramics in this province. The core
of Tam Irving: Reflections is about recording excellence and
providing a stimulating legacy document for future scholars,
artists, and researchers. It will recognize the contributions
that Irving has made to the development of the ceramic medium
within the province and to the larger Canadian and international
ceramic community.
 In
the Trenches
The Best of sub-TERRAIN Magazine, the First 10 Years
Edited by Brian
Kaufman
In The Trenches: The
Best of sub-TERRAIN represents ten
years of alternative writing, as featured on the pages of Vancouver's
literary renegade magazine, subTERRAIN.
In The Trenches features
works of poetry, fiction and commentary by innumerable talented
emerging writers, many of whom have since gone on to become
established Canadian authors.
Included is work by: Derek McCormack,
Steven Heighton, Helene Littmann, Elise Levine, Grant Buday,
Dianne Warren, Mark Anthony Jarman, Bud Osborn, Sophia Kaszuba,
Michael Turner, Mark Cochrane, Joanne Arnott, Dennis E. Bolen,
Tamas Dobozy and many others, plus commentary by the editors.
See subTerrain Magazine
"Anyone who sets out to
run a literary magazine is by nature a lunatic, a fool. Here
are fools, all in a band behind subTERRAIN.
But fools are holy. Ask Dostoyevsky, beloved among idiots. God
will bless them, being a fool himself."
—Barry Callaghan, founder of exile magazine.
"one of Canada's most vibrant
literary magazines"
—Toronto Star
June 2007
Fiction/Poetry/Essay
312 pp, 7 x 10
ISBN: 1-895636-19-1
$26 CAN / $22 US
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