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What started as a small sequence of poems about the Starbucks logo grew to monstrous proportions after the poet fell under a siren spell herself. <i>All Day I Dream About Sirens</i> is both an ancient reverie and a screen-induced stupor as these poems reckon with the enduring cultural fascination with siren and mermaid narratives as they span geographies, economies, and generations, chronicling and reconfiguring the male-centered epic and women’s bodies and subjectivities.
House Divided
Housing is increasingly unattainable in successful global cities, and Toronto is no exception – in part because of zoning that protects “stable” residential neighborhoods with high property values. <i>House Divided</i> is a citizen’s guide for changing the way housing can work in big cities. Using Toronto as a case study, this anthology unpacks the affordability crisis and offers innovative ideas for creating housing for all ages and demographic groups. With charts, maps, data, and policy prescriptions, <i>House Divided</i> poses tough questions about the issue that will make or break the global city of the future.
Midday at the Super-Kamiokande
Like the neutrino observatory of its title, <i>Midday at the Super-Kamiokande</i> seeks “glimpses of the obscure” to carve out meaning, alternately a resistance to rationalism and its champion. It aims to tear through abstraction with the concrete, either catastrophic – road accidents, nuclear explosions, floods, extinction, eviction, suicide – or quotidian, finding threads of love, empathy, and belief within the fray. These poems delight in aphorism, paradox, puns, and wit, each stanza a closure that moves tangentially to the next, each poem more bricolage than narrative, more shuffle than playlist. These are poems with no middle. These are poems of beginnings, and of ends.
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• Liem is the Assistant Editor of <i>Vallum Magazine</i> in Montreal, and is well connected in the poetry community.<br> •Violence against women is a lightning rod for discussion in today’s media. Liem’s book gives voice to women who die as a result of this violence, and gives them a voice instead of them being just a mere statistic.<br>
Nights on Prose Mountain
• bpNichol is known primarily as a poet and sound poet, but his fiction was equally innovative and influential. These works have all been out of print for years, and there's never been one place to find all of them. • bpNichol was a huge influence on a large number of writers, including his good friend Michael Ondaatje. He was an editor at Coach House for many years, and is much beloved by the whole community of avant-garde writers and readers. • We have previously published <i>The Alphabet Game: a bpNichol Reader</i> and <a book of variations</i>. Both are on university course lists and have enjoyed an enthusiastic readership.
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– As North Korea makes us think once again about the threat of nuclear war, it's a good moment to revisit how we got there in the first place: this novel depicts Robert Oppenheimer during the time he's working on, and completing, The Manhattan Project. – The subject does seem to be in vogue: the TV series <i>Manhattan</i> depicts that time, as well as the popular comic book series <i>The Manhattan Projects</i>. – This novel focuses less on the mechanics of bomb creation and more on Oppenheimer's personal life: his relationships, his intellectual life (including what he's reading), his thoughts on his work. – Los Alamos is beautifully depicted. The laboratory is open to the public for five hours twice a year, and we'll aim to capitalize on that.
Of the Subcontract
Of the Subcontract is a collection of poems about computational capitalism, each of which was written by an underpaid worker subcontracted through Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk service. The collection is ordered according to cost-of-production and repurposes metadata about the efficiency of each writer to generate informatic typographic embellishments. Those one hundred poems are braced between two newly commissioned essays; the whole book is threaded with references to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Wolfgang von Kempelen and the emerging iconography of cloud living.Of the Subcontract reverses out of the database-driven digital world of new labour pools into poetry’s black box: the book. It reduces the poetic imagination to exploited labour and, equally, elevates artificial intelligence to the status of the poetic. In doing so, it explores the all-too-real changes that are reforming every kind of work, each day more quickly, under the surface of life.
The Xenotext
Christian is one of the world's most well-known conceptual poets. Crystallography brought a scientific rigour and sensibility to poetry, while Eunoia was an Oulipian exercise in severe constraint and a radical experiment in language. Eunoia won the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize and has sold 35,000 copies in North America. The Xenotext is a kind of experiment – a literary exercise that explores the aesthetic potential of genetics in the modern milieu. Christian Bök is in the process of composing a beautiful, anomalous poem, whose “alien words” might subsist, like a harmless parasite, inside the cell of another life-form.This is the first volume, of two, about The Xenotext. It will include Christian’s writings about and around the experiment; there is a long poem about the hellish origins of life on Earth, a series of writings and texts that will introduce the reader to the basics of genetics, amino acids and helices, complete with numerous illustrations. It sets the groundwork for the second volume, which will document the experiment itself.The experiment has been going on for more than ten years, and has already received media attention from BBC, Harper's, The Guardian, Maclean's, as well as from the scientific and literary communities.
I Could See Everything
Williamson is a much acclaimed young painter and artist and she's never had a book of her work featured before. This suite of eighty paintings is her most impressive work to date.The book plays with notions of reality and fiction, as it talks about a real place but collects the very paintings into an entirely fictional exhibition (and material around that fictional exhibition) in an imaginary gallery.Margaux Williamson is Sheila Heti's friend 'Margaux,' who features largely in her acclaimed book, How Should a Person Be?Includes material from Ben Lerner (Leaving the Atocha Station, Chris Kraus (I Love Dick), Mark Greif (n+1) and more.Some of the paintings will be shown at Mulherin + Pollard in New York, opening April 21, 2014.
Cheer Up, Jay Ritchie
With an alternating sense of wonder and detachment, Jay Ritchie's first full-length collection of poetry grapples with death, disappointment, love, emails – the large and small subjects of daily life. His unflagging sense of humour and aphoristic delivery create a work that is personable yet elevated, witty, and honest.