Straight from the heart, Rita Joe tells the story of her remarkable life: her tumultuous childhood in foster homes, education in an Indian residential school, turbulent marriage and daily struggles with prejudice, sexism and poverty....
Poets, Canadian
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Author:Joe, RitaSummary: - Author:Bordeleau, Virginia PésémapéoSummary:
Ce roman de Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau resitue la société amérindienne dans le contexte de la modernité, avec ses forces et ses déchirements, et met en lumière le profond humanisme de cette culture, à travers une quête identitaire qui...
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Author:Summary:"A society without poetry and the other arts would have broken its mirror and cut out its heart.--"Margaret Atwood. So boldly insists one of our greatest writers in Measures of Astonishment, a refreshing and eclectic mix of both deeply...
- Author:Raby-Dunne, SusanSummary:
Most Canadians are familiar with John McCrae through his iconic poem “In Flanders Fields,” which was penned on the battlefields of the First World War and remains a symbol of remembrance to this day. Although he will always be...
- Author:Crate, JoanSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2002 Pat Lowther Award
Foreign Homes, Joan Crate’s second book of poems, explores domesticity and dislocation, where what was thought to be home becomes alien, and where the alien is, piece by piece,...
- Author:Funk, CarlaSummary:
From an award-winning essayist and acclaimed poet comes this radiant, observant, and warmly funny memoir about childhood, family, and small-town life.Carla Funk grew up in a place of logging trucks and God, pellet guns and parables....
- Author:Cohen, LeonardSummary:
The poems in this book brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt, and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, these verses give voice to our deepest intuitions.
- Author:Kerr, DonSummary:
Shortlisted for the 1998 Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry
Don Kerr's fifth poetry collection is a verbal joyride, an exuberant celebration of a book: a celebration of mountains and plains, of growing up and of being young, of...
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Author:Davey, FrankSummary:Written by one of his friends and confidants, a close reading of bpNichol’s poetry
aka bpNichol is the biography of the major Canadian poet bpNichol, who was a practising lay psychoanalyst and vice–president of...
