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Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2022
ISBN 10: 1772013854ISBN 13: 9781772013856
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An incendiary new novel based on the myth of Medusa from noted author Martine Desjardins.Shes been called Medusa for so long that shes forgotten her real name. She walks with her head down, her face hidden behind her hair to spare others the sight of her Deformities eyes so horrible they repel women and petrify men. She herself never dares to look in a mirror. Driven from her family home, Medusa is locked up in the Atheaeum, an institute for young 'malformed' girls, which stands on the shores of a lake infested with jellyfish. In this dismal abyss, where Benefactors indulge in cruel games with their protegees, she gradually discovers the prodigious and formidable faculties of her ocular Sickenings. The day Medusa finally emerges from her confinement, she sows destruction in her path. But before she can take revenge on the Benefactors who humiliated her, shell first have to face the treacherous gaze of her nemesis and the deadly gaze of her own Abominations.Martine Desjardinss chilling and poetic Medusa is a provocative story of womens body shame and mens body shaming, phallocratic oppression, and female power an inversion of the traditional balance of power that throws a light on so-called monstrosity. By the author of the award-winning Maleficium, Medusa is an incendiary tale of women's body shame and men's body shaming, phallocratic oppression, and the power of femininity, adapting the famous story of Medusa. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2010
ISBN 10: 0889226288ISBN 13: 9780889226289
Seller: Bay Used Books, Sudbury, ON, Canada
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good Condition. Minor wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772015202ISBN 13: 9781772015201
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The third play in the award-winning Arctic Cycle on the impact of climate changeHarveys suck. Whether hurricanes or Hollywood producers, Harveys are overpowered forces primed to prey on vulnerable people and ecosystems. Harveys especially prey on women, including the woman in No More Harveys, who flees her abusive husband and heads for Alaska to reunite with friends and instead encounters the wonder of whales. In turns funny, insightful, and moving, No More Harveyspresents a world dominated by colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy where the problems that plague our communities, be we women or whales, share the same gnarled roots.No More Harveys is the third play of the Arctic Cycle, a series of eight plays that looks at the social and environmental impacts of the climate crisis on the eight Arctic states. It follows Sila, set in Canada, and Forward, set in Norway. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772016128ISBN 13: 9781772016123
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. You're Gonna Love This tracks the narrator's entwined relationships with her spouse, her television, and herself. Displaying Del Bucchia's trademark nuanced media literacy, this distinctly working-class long poem unravels how media culture's around-the-clock presence impacts our connection to the world. Recapping episodes in her experience of caregiving, she also addresses her own mental-health journey with dark humour, wry cultural references, and a flair for making the deeply personal especially relatable. You're gonna love this! Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772015512ISBN 13: 9781772015515
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. the berry takes the shape of the bloom originated as a gesture towards optimism after loss and pain, difficulty and fear. It began as a linear narrative, offering a window into one trans persons life after they felt contented and secure. But in the end these poems, which capture particular moments in time, may recur in any given present: sometimes what surfaces is anxiety or anger, sometimes love or eagerness. Some poems bear witness; others hold grudges or shake free of them. Together, they entwine around enmeshed experiences of gender, family, trans pregnancy, abuse, fear, and becoming.Before blueberries grow, they grow a bloom that looks like a proto berry. The berry then takes the shape of the bloom that came before it. The berry displaces the bloom that came before it My mother bloomed and then I was a wave or a skateboard or a foraging deer. My mother bloomed and I did not displace her in the right way. Did I berry? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772015474ISBN 13: 9781772015478
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In this debut poetry collection, Samantha Nock redefines where and what home is.A Family of Dreamers delves into the complexities of growing up in rural northeast British Columbia and the love and grief that blooms there. In this debut collection, Samantha Nock weaves together threads of fat liberation, desirability politics, and heartbreak while working through her existence as a young Indigenous woman coming of age in the city. The result is a love song to northern cuzzins, dive bars, and growing up. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2024
ISBN 10: 1772014494ISBN 13: 9781772014495
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A bold new work from award-winning playwrights James Long and Marcus YoussefThirty years from now, three social planners visit Vancouvers Russian Hall, long abandoned due to earthquakes and flooding, with a seemingly straightforward task: repurpose the hall for common use. But the trio soon discover the project wont be an easy fix. An eccentric squatter, armed with a trove of Soviet industrial films on 16 mm stock, has made the damaged hall their home and theyre not leaving.James Long and Marcus Youssef's multimedia play Do you mind if I sit here? dares us seriously to consider the possibilities of radical transformation and to imagine a future born from our most important beliefs, fears, and hopes.Cast of 3 actors of any gender Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772014451ISBN 13: 9781772014457
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Consumed by fantasies of opulent fabrics and women's high fashion, a young man desperately tries to restore his mother's tarnished reputation. Channeling Yves Saint Laurent, his idol and muse, Hugo sets out to right the widespread rumours about his mother, Batrice, by designing the perfect outfit for her court appearance. Through the story of Hugo and his mother, Michel Marc Bouchard explores the root of artistic creation and explores whether art can be a source of consolation. A stunning new play by star Qubec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772015490ISBN 13: 9781772015492
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. No Town Called We writes through the death of elders, social panic, and the climate crisis via the lens of the multiply disabled, female-coded body approaching midlife. Punching through the veils of complacency and greed that shape the cultures of the petrostate, these poems are meditations on an emergency, dispatches from wombat burrows and prairie hospitals. They consider the variegated forms grief can take, both marking and resisting their own decay. Reimer asks: How do you and I relate? How might we commune? Can we enjoy our sick prostrated time? What does it mean to occupy a land? What duty of care do we owe each other? And poet, what have you done with the moon? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2024
ISBN 10: 1772015393ISBN 13: 9781772015393
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Isolating in Nogent-sur-Marne, Wajdi Mouawad embarks upon a spectacular inner voyage, travelling from his own microcosm to the eye of the Big Bang. We follow him from Peter Handkes office to his fathers retirement home, from the banks of the Saint Lawrence to Montreal, Greece, Greenland, and the Lebanon of his childhood. Through Kafka and Star Wars, by way of French phonetics and the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, he explores the razors edge of madness, conjures a dream shared by all humanity, and probes the bestiality of our everyday lives.Mouawads plays, novels, and essays speak to us all, confronting our ghosts, addressing the obscure and the impenetrable, which dissipate as they are put into words. The musings in Speaking through the Night, born out of solitude, confront the mysteries of the universe with supple introspection. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772015229ISBN 13: 9781772015225
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Noh-influenced libretto by renowned Canadian poet Daphne MarlattThe Noh-influenced libretto of Shadow Catch recounts the dreams or are they dreams? of the Runaway, a teenage boy who ends up one night in Oppenheimer Park in Vancouvers Downtown Eastside. Here four troubled spirits from the parks past appear to him: the Spirit of the Maple Tree from Kemkemelay whose grove was decimated by loggers, a member of the brilliant Asahi baseball team whose players were sent off to Japanese internment camps, the keeper of a 1920s brothel who is haunted by the tragic death of one of "her" women, and a roughneck policeman from the 1930s who gave in to corruption. This is a story not only about characters from Vancouvers historical and cultural past, but about the journey and transformation that must take place in order to confront ones greatest fears and regrets.Each of the four acts in this sparse, poetic libretto were set to music by composers Dorothy Chang, Benton Roark, Jennifer Butler, and Farshid Samandari. Replete with contextual material, this book includes brief histories of species interconnectedness in the park, the Asahi baseball team, Vancouver's early red-light district, and the Battle of Ballantyne Pier. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772015164ISBN 13: 9781772015164
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. COVID meditations from literary phenom Otoniya J. Okot BitekRife with the paradoxical forces of boredom and intensity, the early days of COVID-19 passed under an inescapable pall. The poems of Song & Dread seek quietude, order, refuge, and space within that shroud. They remind us of community, connectedness, and what is inherently shared. Here, Otoniya J. Okot Bitek becomes a record keeper, observing the contradictory, symbiotic relationship between the quotidian and the extraordinary. These works are of their time, while remembering an existence outside it. With a keen eye, Bitek documents the ways the strange can become normalized when there is no other option. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2024
ISBN 10: 1772015598ISBN 13: 9781772015591
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Inspired by the classic play by Sophocles, Antigone in Spring takes us to a fictional Quebec where dead birds fall from the sky, covering highways, rooftops, and parks. The citizens demand an explanation, but the answer never comes; the government, led by the autocratic Creon, refuses to tell the truth. A revolution is brewing, however, and the populations youth and their supporters, inflamed by the unprecedented ecological disaster, are calling for freedom. Amid this upheaval, Antigone and her brothers, Polynices and Eteocles, narrate their tale. Born into a happy family that flees to their cottage in Riviere-Eternite every summer, they lived in the certainty that the world was a safe place of warmth and honesty. But when they accidentally learn the truth that their mother Jocasta is married to her own son, Oedipus, who is both their father and their brother everything falls apart, and the three siblings are caught up in the revolution sweeping through the city.Written in free verse and fuelled by the courage and integrity of the protesters during the student demonstrations that rocked the streets of Montreal in 2012, Antigone in Spring is an ode to all the revolutions whose stories remain untold. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772015245ISBN 13: 9781772015249
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Slow Scrape brilliantly enacts a poetics of relation and action to counter the settler colonial violences of erasure, extraction, and dispossession. Drawing on documentary poetics, concrete-based installations, event scores, and other texts, the book cites memory, Cree and Alutiiq languages, and embodiment as modes of relational being and knowing. In the words of Layli Long Soldier, Slow Scrape presents "an expansive and undulating meditation on time, relations, origin, and colonization."Includes an introduction by Layli Long Soldier as well as a dialogue between Lukin Linklater and editor for the first edition, Michael Nardone. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772014419ISBN 13: 9781772014419
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In Witness Back at Me, Weyman Chan continues to explore themes of dislocation and belonging by drawing on biography, myth, science, and the everyday. Chan's poetry is suffused with a collage-like immersion of stream-of-conscious voices, approximating the kaleidoscopic effect of interior thought. Witness Back at Me draws on the childhood loss of Chan's mother to breast cancer, as a survival mechanism towards an aesthetics of accepted disembodiment, always haunted by a search for nurturing and surrender to some greater being. The poems in this book intertwine polyvocally, building into a liminal biographical metanarrative: the whole point of existence, the author believes, is to luxuriate in the greater being of not-knowing. To accept the historical underpinnings, the brokenness of the world, inside and outside the self, but be in constant communication of both worlds, towards understanding and healing, is the one true meaningful quest. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772014397ISBN 13: 9781772014396
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In a time of floods, fires, plagues, and famines, nothing could be more pertinent than the work of Maya/Irish writer and artist annie ross. Some People Fall in the Lodge and Eat Berries All Winter, her follow-up to Pots and Other Living Beings,gives voice to the pain of living where the machine is the exalted power. This new series of prose and poems, anchored by woodcuts by the author, explores extinctions, species interdependence, environmental justice, soul loss in modernity, the natural and Supernatural worlds, and animal rights and power, always keeping peace and love for Mother Earth in view. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772014370ISBN 13: 9781772014372
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. After a carnal encounter with garbage, some space emerged for Danielle LaFrance to air her dildos. In #postdildo they think and write through the limitlessness and limitations of sexuality, communication, and desire. Focusing on the dildo as sexual object and social relation, LaFrance asks, How shall You fuck without causing harm? What came before #postdildo if not internet porn, the confession booth, colonial capitalism, settler sexuality, patriarchy, and feminism, all providing a blueprint for how inadequately to be touched and fucked? What comes after delights? #postdildo is a mass of contradictions that more often than not finds a lot of dis/pleasure in a lot of refusal. Incendiary new poems working through the politics and theory of sexuality and desire by the author of JUST LIKE I LIKE IT. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772015121ISBN 13: 9781772015126
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A brilliant collection weaving history, personal experience, and Indigenous resilienceSpells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead: mamahtawisiwin, pakoseyimow, nikihci-aniskotapan is a wonder. With inspiring defiance, John-Kehewin plays with form, space, and language, demonstrating which magics cannot be suppressed. Here is an unflinching look at colonialisms sickening trail: its ongoingdetriment to the safety and mental health of Indigenous people, its theft of language, and its intergenerational harms. But here also is the unrelenting power of resistance, and the great strength in truth. Wanda John-Kehewin stands in her truth so that other survivors may stand in theirs. Title in Plains Cree syllabics unable to be transcribed. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772015431ISBN 13: 9781772015430
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Celebrated humorist and short-story writer M.A.C. Farrants new non-fiction work comprises ninety-three puzzle pieces that mimic the actual practice of assembling a jigsaw puzzle. By turns whimsical, insightful, meditative, funny, and factual, the pieces of Jigsaw touch on themes readers of the celebrated humorist and fiction writer M.A C. Farrant have encountered before: existence, love, joy, science, history, aging, roads, and Buddhism and our seemingly universal love of jigsaw puzzles.Once again, the author of the bestselling memoir One Good Thing and of the literary miniatures The World Afloat, The Days, and The Great Happiness writes against the prevailing zeitgeist of doom, accessing its flip side via humour and curiosity. Jigsaw is a much-needed mental respite that offers playful, rejuvenating potential answers to the dreaded question, How in the world are we going to get through these fearful times? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772014478ISBN 13: 9781772014471
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Discover how Canada got the eight-hour workday! Visit the first town to vote on Big Oil!The Ballad of Ginger Goodwin recreates the events surrounding the mysterious death of Albert "Ginger" Goodwin, who led a strike at a Canadian zinc smelter in Trail, BC, that brought the WW I British war machine to a halt. In Kitimat, residents of an industry town in the glorious BC wilderness struggle to decide between economic prosperity and environmental protection when they must vote yes or no to a proposed oil pipeline.The Ballad of Ginger Goodwin: Cast of 2 women and 3 menKitimat: Flexible casting, between 6 and 16 actors of different genders Three timely and provocative plays by the award-winning, internationally produced Portuguese Canadian playwright Elaine vila. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772015180ISBN 13: 9781772015188
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A kaleidoscopic net woven of words A Net of Momentary Sapphire offers three closely related poetic sequences, random rearrangements of a poignant but obsessively recurrent source text streams of consciousness in which no stable self can be elucidated. A broken long poem, this singular net is an interrogation of the aftermath of twentieth-century modernism, looking both backwards and forwards an eternal return.Once again & innumerable times againthe required solitude, renunciation, strangecurtained doubt artifice all jewelled& after thissilent time, these days& nights in desertdry country, dry thoughts-from "The foretaste of a vision but never the vision itself" Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books Ltd., Vancouver, Canada, 1993
Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. INSCRIBED by author on full title page in French. Translated from French by Laura Hodes. "The Angel of Solitude presides over the lives of eight young lesbian women who strive to achieve an all-female utopia within which homophobia, their pasts and their differences are abolished." Ships same or next business day. Book has very minimal edge wear, light crease on top corner of page 79 to back cover. Overall, book is tight, bright, and clean. Protected in archival plastic bag. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages; Signed by Author.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772015105ISBN 13: 9781772015102
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The collected longer poems of brilliant Canadian poet Sharon ThesenRefabulations collects and reanimates the longer and serial poems from Sharon Thesens oeuvre, from her first book in 1980 to today. It is a record of a life in language, created by a dexterous and renegade poet whose mind is ever at work in the poem. A self-described receiver, Thesen energizes her decades of vital work by providing new neighbours and contexts for a body of poetry that has always recognized disaster, laughed at folly, and made its home in the vigour of the Now. Refabulations includes a short introductory essay by the editor, Erin Moure, an afterword-interview with the poet, and a bibliography. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1967
Seller: Great Books&Cafe @ The Williamsford Mill, Williamsford, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Trade Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 96 pp. With b&w photos and illustrations. A collection of poems and pictures. Light corner and surface wear, darkening of spine, related article laid-in has yellowed adjacent pages.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2024
ISBN 10: 1772015539ISBN 13: 9781772015539
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Another Order gathers the dynamic and previously inaccessible works of Judith Copithorne, the boundary-pushing writer, artist, community worker, and outspoken feminist who has been a key figure in Vancouvers literary scene since the 1960s. Including poetry, fiction, visual art, comics, and life writing, Another Order captures Copithornes embodied approach to text and her tireless experiments with media from typewriters and pens to computer software in texts that engage issues of gender, sexuality, desire, subjectivity, spirituality, and revolution. Edited and introduced by Eric Schmaltz, this volume affirms Judith Copithornes position among the leading avant-garde poets and artists of her time. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2024
ISBN 10: 1772015415ISBN 13: 9781772015416
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This revealing memoir by the former president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians describes the long journey towards resolution for the historic injustice that deprived Japanese Canadians of their basic human rights during and after World War II. Gaman Perseverance details the intense negotiations that took place in the 1980s between the Government of Canada and the NAJC negotiations which finally resulted in the historic Japanese Canadian Redress Agreement of September 1988 and the acknowledgment by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney that Canada had wronged its own citizens.Art Miki vividly recollects his past experiences and family history, revealing the beliefs and attitudes that shaped his lifes journey as a youth in British Columbia, an educator in Manitoba, and a community leader across Canada. He shares personal reflections on the Japanese Canadian Redress Campaign and the many endeavours and challenges that followed. He details his involvement with Indigenous communities and the dispute that would lead to the historic Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, his foray into politics during the 1990s, and his role as a Canadian citizenship judge. Gaman Perseverance provides a unique, intimate glimpse into Mikis involvement with the Japanese community and the projects that embody meaningful historical preservation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, BC, 2002
ISBN 10: 0889224617ISBN 13: 9780889224612
Seller: Werdz Quality Used Books, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. As new condition; In the fall of 1918, as fear of the dreaded "Spanish Flu" begins to fill the town of Unity with paranoia, drastic measures are taken. The town is quarantined in an attempt to keep the illness out. Trains are forbidden to sop, no one can enter, and the borders are sealed. Mail from overseas, feared to be carrying the deadly virus, is gathered and burned. But when the disease descends upon the town despite these precautions, the citizens begin to turn on each other as they attempt to find a scapegoat for the crisis.
Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 1772014338ISBN 13: 9781772014334
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Webb, Phyllis (illustrator). Paperback. First collection of visual work by renowed Canadian poet Phyllis Webb * (in 1965). When words abandoned her in the early 1990s and she was no longer able to write, she took up photography, photocollage, and eventually painting. Webbs visual work a surprising late style (the work of an independent artist in her sixties, seventies, and eighties) is in many ways a response to and extension of concerns explored in her poetry: the natural world of the West Coast, global political strife, the artists struggle to express themself. All of this is explored in her more formalist collages and expressive, abstract paintings. *A Dream in the Eye* includes introductory material by the book's editor Stephen Collis and art historian and curator Laurie White, as well as supplementary material including some of Webbs own reflections on her visual work, an essay by Betsy Warland, and a selection of poems written in response to Webbs paintings by her long-time friend Diana Hayes. First-ever publication of visual works by the renowned Canadian poet Phyllis Webb, who died in November, 2021. With eighty-five paintings and forty-five collages. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Talon Books Ltd, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2020
ISBN 10: 1772012580ISBN 13: 9781772012583
Seller: Mister-Seekers Bookstore, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. New, May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges And/Or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ Here Is The Only Known First-Person Account From A Chinese Worker On The Famously Treacherous Parts Of Transcontinental Railways That Spanned The North American Continent In The Nineteenth Century. The Story Of Those Chinese Workers Has Been Told Before, But Never In A Voice From Among Their Number, Never In A Voice That Lived Through The Experience. Here Is That Missing Voice, A Voice That Changes Our Understanding Of The History It Tells And That So Many Believed Was Lost Forever. Dukesang Wong's Written Account Of Life Working On The Canadian Pacific Railway, A Gold Mountain Life, Tells Of The Punishing Work, The Comradery, The Sickness And Starvation, The Encounters With Indigenous Peoples, And The Dark And Shameful History Of Racism And Exploitation That Prevailed Up And Down The North American Continent. The Diary Of Dukesang Wong Includes All The Selected Entries Translated In The Mid-1960S By His Granddaughter, Wanda Joy Hoe, For An Undergraduate Sociology Paper. Background History And Explanations For The Diary's Unexplained References Are Provided By David Mcilwraith, The Book's Editor, Who Also Considers Why The Diarist's Voice And Other Chinese Voices Have Been Silenced For So Long.
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Published by Talon Books,Canada, Vancouver, 2023
ISBN 10: 177201382XISBN 13: 9781772013825
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Eight years in the making, Lha yuditih We Always Find a Way is a community oral history of Tsilhqotin Nation v. British Columbia, the first case in Canada to result in a declaration of Aboriginal Rights and Title to a specific piece of land. Told from the perspective of the Plaintiff, Chief Roger William, joined by fifty Xeni Gwetins, Tsxilhqotins, and allies, this book encompasses ancient stories of creation, modern stories of genocide through smallpox and residential school, and stories of resistance including the Tsxilhqotin War, direct actions against logging and mining, and the twenty-five-year battle in Canadian courts to win recognition of what Tsxilhqotins never gave up and have always known. We are the land, as Chief Roger says. After the violence of colonialism, he understands the court case as bringing our sight back. This book witnesses the power of that vision, its continuity with the Tsxilhqotin world before the arrival of colonizers two centuries ago, and its potential for a future of freedom and self-determination for the Tsxilhqotin People. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.