The Rules of the Kingdom Julie PaulPublisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press Book Description To seek belonging, to strain against the familiar—these are the polarities many of us live between, feeling the pull of each desire. Offering a particular history, an...
An Honest Woman Jónína KirtonPublisher: Talonbooks Book Description An Honest Woman by Jónína Kirton confronts us with beauty and ugliness in the wholesome riot that is sex, love, and marriage. From the perspective of a mixed-race woman, Kirton engages with Simone de...
Frequent, small loads of laundry Rhonda GanzPublisher: Mother Tongue Publishing Book Description In her debut collection, poet Rhonda Ganz brazenly mixes darks with lights and dares to peg out the quirky and bizarre, both real and imagined, with all seams showing....
Fragments, Desire Onjana YawnghwePublisher: Oolichan Books Book Description In Fragments, Desire, at once a love poem and an homage to Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse, Onjana Yawnghwe has created what she refers to as her own “dictionary of love.” Out of loss and...
Prison Industrial Complex Explodes Mercedes EngPublisher: Talonbooks Book Description The impetus for Prison Industrial Complex Explodes was the discovery of a cache of Eng’s father’s prison correspondence: letters from the federal government stating their intention...
