books by The Muses' Company     books:       The Way Boys Sometimes Are and Other Poems1 review Clarise Foster The Muses' Company, 2006 What Does Memory Eat? Its Young This isn't the way I would do it, and it is far from the way Manitoba-based poet Colin Smith might do it, but I can see why he sent me Clarise Foster's book THE WAY BOYS SOMETIMES ARE and why he thought I would admire it. The book is like one long sustained elegy for the poet's brother Shawn Michael, who died of AIDS, interspersed with memories of a female friend who killed herself, and what ...             All These Stars And Me With No Bucket Holly Nelson The Muses' Company, 2004 Holly Nelson?s skill as a storyteller is presented clearly and unmistakably in her poetry. Travelling through her manuscript, we encounter old women, young mothers, dogs and dragonflies, as her verse invites us to rediscover the preciousness of our humanity. A prairie blizzard of perfections.             Comet Wine Ruth Taylor The Muses' Company, 2007 Comet Wine is a book of poems, not a collection of poems. Although it does not have a traditional narrative, it certainly does have an imagistic thread. She invites the reader to be, as s/he reads and experiences, the needle and thread that connects them. Comet Wine begins with "Prelude (A Poet's Work)": What is the poet's Work?/And why and oh why and oh why;" a job description that immediately makes it clear that this is not a 9?5 position. ...             The Beautiful Chemical Waltz: New & Selected Poems Artie Gold The Muses' Company, 1992 "Every city has a poet who inhabits its heart and is somehow its resident spirit. He or she may not be the most public of that city?s poets, but, more than the visible ones, holds the secrets in a clandestine sort of way?It long ago struck me that the poet of English Montreal who best exemplified the city?s soul was Artie Gold?Unusual and sometimes brilliant images rise out of a poetic voice that manages to stay close to speech and yet sound ...             A Curious Beatitude Sarah Klassen The Muses' Company, 2006 This new collection, by one of Canada?s most accomplished poets, includes the long poem "Rewinding Time", which won a National Magazine Award (Gold) for poetry. Sarah Klassen sings of paintings and symphonies, of gardens and mermaids, of miracles on mountaintops and the private language of birds, evoking landscapes that range from Gaughin?s Tahiti and Pizarro?s Cusco to the poet?s own childhood home in the Manitoba Interlake, weaving a ...             So Rarely in Our Skins1 review Robert Moore The Muses' Company, 2002 You'll love this book I happened to hear this poet read a couple of years ago in Prince Edward Island and I was so impressed I bought his book. The freshness of voice, the skill with which he casts idiosyncratic forms of feeling, and especially the humour I remembered from the reading are all present in these remarkable poems. The range of the work is really quite incredible, ranging from genuinely moving to the ...             The Cost of Living Kenneth Radu The Muses' Company, 1998 Finalist for the Governor General?s Award             At the Door at Evening/Na Vraith Zvecer E. Kocbek The Muses' Company, 1998 Published nearly 10 years after Kocbek’s death, this book is the first bilingual (Slovene?English) collection of poetry by this dissident Slovenian author. The book opens with an informative and thought?provoking introduction by Lozar.             Diary of a Trademark: Poetry and Prose Ian Stephens The Muses' Company, 1994 Diary of a Trademark is a raw, powerful book that explores life on the edge. Like Dante, Stephens takes us through hell. This contemporary hell is filled with the screams and tears of human beings trapped in a world that is and is not of their own making. Stephens writes about sorrow, disease, sex, killers, money, mutiny, hope, nobility, death, and the movies called life.             Exposed Chandra Mayor The Muses' Company, 2002 The Muses? Company is proud to expose to the light the work of five exciting young poetic talents. Alison Calder unveils the ordinary day to reveal its lyrical beauty; Sharanpal Ruprai offers a rare and honest glimpse of family love; Melanie Unrau peels back the surface of our culture to uncover the uneasy tensions below; Kerry Ryan discloses the fear and courage in the hearts of young lovers; and Chandra Mayor strips language to the bone with ...             Direct and Devious Ways Katharine Beeman The Muses' Company, 1993 Direct and Devious Ways is Katharine Beeman?s first book of poetry. In this collection, we are introduced to a mature poet who is politically aware rather than politically correct. She is at ease with the body sensual and the body politic.             Dying with AIDS/Living with AIDS: 1991-1992 Mark Leslie The Muses' Company, 1993 Leslie?s book is a penetrating social document. It is also a remarkable work of art. The text and photographs of the series outline one man?s ferocious struggle to prevail in the face of the debilitating effects of the AIDS virus, and of his own mortality.             The Dragon Papers Ruth Taylor The Muses' Company, 1993 Gnosis, Cabala, Lake Monsters, Alchemy, Allusion, Hydro, and Harangue. Rising Organ Music. Ruth Taylor?s second collection of poetry, The Dragon Papers is an eclectic and esoteric comedy, precise and preposterous. With one eye on the ancient and obscure and the other on the new, improved and millennial, Taylor?s dragons speak with forked tongues...and make sense!             Esprit De Corps: Quebec Poetry of the Late Twentieth Century in Translation The Muses' Company, 1998 Esprit de Corps is an exciting anthology of contemporary Quebec poetry by more than forty of the most important francophone writers. Contributors include Denise Boucher, Yolande Villemaire, Nicole Brossard, Yves Boisvert, Anne Hebert, Gilles Vigneault, and Pierre Morency.             Family Scandals S. Nelson The Muses' Company, 1998 Family Scandals captures with precision the feelings of an adolescent girl in the nether?zone between child and adult, where men respond with lust and women deny or denounce budding sexuality. At this stage, girls learn to internalize the duplicities that compose the social script prescribed for women, duplicities defined as sane and normal by the dynamics of family life.             The Flame Tree Clarise Foster The Muses' Company, 1998 Foster?s first collection of poetry shimmers with the colours of the South Pacific. The green flash at sunset, the "diamond sleeve of an ocean inlet," and "the resilient fire/of flame trees" all illuminate a landscape of white beaches and tangled forests of walking trees and tangentangen. This is a dangerous landscape of legend and memory, where the past lies hidden like the unexploded bombs beneath the surface of the island. But Foster ...             The Drawing Board Ruth Taylor The Muses' Company, 1993 A poignant look at beginnings and ends in Ruth Taylor?s unique voice.             For Orchestra and Solo Poet mile Martel The Muses' Company, 1998 Finalist for the 1996 Governor General?s Award for Translation. Winner Governor General?s Award for Poetry (French). For Orchestra and Solo Poet is a solemn and lovely music lesson. Emile Martel?s poetic composition is a rich and thoughtful meditation on the art of creation, and its creator?s touch is deft and sure. In a language that is generous and true, the solitary poet of the land and the sea observes the islands whence comes the ...              search for books 1991-1992, beatitude, beautiful, bucket, century, chemical, curious, devious, direct, dragon, drawing, esprit, evening, exposed, family, living, orchestra, papers, poetry, quebec, rarely, scandals, selected, sometimes, these, trademark, translation, twentieth, vraith, zvecer books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: Freedom [Blu-ray] we recommend What Does Memory Eat? Its Young leave a comment home  impressum - about us