Publicado por Porcupine's Quill, 2001
ISBN 10: 0889842213 ISBN 13: 9780889842212
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. `Dove Legend is a pungent pot pourri for Outram readers. It binds together the shorter poem cycles, festive holiday broadsheets, occasional verses and love poems, and a number of highly disguised and thus revealing autobiographical pieces, all written over the past ten years (roughly since Outram's retirement from stage production at the CBC). In a sense, these are only the decades leftovers. In the same span, we have been treated to a series of book-length poetry cycles, Hiram and Jenny, Mogul Recollected, and Benedict Abroad. A reader of Dove Legend cannot help but think of the book's relationship to all the other work Outram has published in these same years, if not to his career in general. In short, to come across this ample inventory is to find yourself wondering, as others have before, why Outram isn't better known than he is.' -- Jeffrey Donaldson - Books in Canada.
Publicado por Porcupine's Quill, 1989
ISBN 10: 0889841012 ISBN 13: 9780889841017
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Revised. The 87 poems included in the first (1956) edition of The Improved Binoculars were selected from the eight volumes the poet published in the first ten years of his career. The publication of the book -- simultaneously by The Ryerson Press (Canada), Migrant Books (England), and Jonathan Williams ( US ) -- did much to establish Layton as a major talent on the international poetry scene and prompted Robert Creeley to note: `Irving Layton may well be for the historian of Literature . the First Great Canadian Poet.'What a pleasure to rediscover `The Bull Calf', `The Cold Green Element', `The Birth of Tragedy' and `To the Girls of my Graduating Class' and discover these poems are as vital as the day they were written.
Publicado por Porcupine's Quill, 2010
ISBN 10: 0889843333 ISBN 13: 9780889843332
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: New. First Edition. The Essential Margaret Avison showcases the development of one of Canada's most brilliant and original poets, twice winner of the Governor-General's Award for Poetry. Margaret Avison's vibrant life work is distilled here into a selection that is illuminating, generous and richly varied.
Publicado por Porcupine's Quill, 2006
ISBN 10: 0889842833 ISBN 13: 9780889842830
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: New. First Edition. W. J. Keith has chosen to ignore utterly both the `popular' at the one extreme (Robert Service, Lucy Maud Montgomery) as well as the `avant-garde' (bpnichol, Anne Carson) at the other in favour of those authors whose style lends itself to the simple pleasure of reading, and to that end Keith dedicates his history to all those (including those of the general reading public whose endangered status is much lamented) who `recognize and celebrate the dance of words.'
Publicado por Porcupine's Quill, 2006
ISBN 10: 0889842841 ISBN 13: 9780889842847
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Clark Blaise is more than just a local colourist who ferrets out the curious details of `marginal' communities in order to delight cosmopolitan readers. Rather, if we consider the full arc of his work, we see that for nearly fifty years he has been challenging the way that we understand the concept of place in contemporary Canadian and American literature.
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Publicado por Porcupine's Quill Inc.,Canada 00/p /01 S, 2008
ISBN 10: 0889843112 ISBN 13: 9780889843110
Librería: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Reino Unido
Condición: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
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Publicado por Porcupine\'s Quill, 2003
ISBN 10: 0889842647 ISBN 13: 9780889842649
Librería: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Fresh, imaginative, witty -- these have all been used to describe Judith McCormack\'s stories, gathered here in a powerful debut collection. Her offbeat characters, many of them lawyers, provide a lively look at the absurdities which lie beneath the skin of everyday life. A grocer who sells lobsters, a Cuban apothecary, a hapless thief, and a dreamy lawyer who navigates by smell are some of the people who fall in and out of trouble in these stories. The collection follows their restless attempts to find footing in a colourful but tricky landscape. All of this is detailed in language with a remarkable sense of cadence, punctuated with tart insights.
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Publicado por Porcupine's Quill, 2009
ISBN 10: 0889843139 ISBN 13: 9780889843134
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. The second in a series of graphic novels edited for the Porcupine's Quill by wood engraver George A. Walker in which Walker encourages students at the Ontario College of Art & Design to embrace 19th century linocut printmaking techniques to create extended visual narratives which are then scanned, digitized, and subsequently printed offset for publication at popular prices in a format that uses 20th century offset printing technology to replicate the look and `feel' of a 19th century letterpress product.
Publicado por Brand: Porcupine's Quill, 2006
ISBN 10: 0889842884 ISBN 13: 9780889842885
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Towards the end of a long and passionate life, P K Page shares in a most engaging form the highlights of a life lived to the full.
Paperback. Condición: Gut. 54 p Einband mit sehr leichten Gebrauchsspuren, ansonsten sehr gut erhalten // Cover with very slight signs of wear, otherwise in very good condition 594 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 150.
Publicado por The Porcupine`s Quill, Inc., Erin, Ontario,, 1993
Librería: Clerc Fremin, Steingaden, Alemania
Softcover. 82 Seiten Zustand: keine Beschädigungen, keine Eintragungen. Rücken, Ecken, Kanten sehr gut. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 200.
Publicado por Porcupine's Quill, 1984
ISBN 10: 0889840555 ISBN 13: 9780889840553
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. A novella that is too ambitious for a short story yet falls short of a novel, A Comedy of Eros is a tale of intrigue and romance in which nothing is quite as it appears to be. (Globe & Mail).
Publicado por Porcupine\'s Quill, 1994
ISBN 10: 0889841829 ISBN 13: 9780889841826
Librería: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. A carefully squared block of highly polished endgrain boxwood or maple and a few sharpened gravers are insignificant in themselves. But in the hands of Hamilton artist Wesley Bates these seemingly inflexible demanding materials can create form, fluidity, mood, depth: an infinite world of light and shadow, monochrome and colour.The English wood engraver Clare Leighton once wrote, `Of all media, wood-engraving is the one in which there is the least to be taught and the most to be learnt.\' The engraver\'s challenge to engrave light onto the block and to respect the mystery of solid blacks and whites is not easily met; but Wesley learned his craft carefully and methodically. He shows his admiration for English wood engraving in his skilful use of these simple gravers and his ability to suggest character and expression in his subjects.Wesley\'s engravings maintain their moods and tell their tales with style, sensitivity, humour and skill. The subject matter in The Point of the Graver ranges from traditional folk ballads (The Brisk Young Butcher) to modern allegories (A Contemporary Fable), from simple commissions (Ex Libris) to elaborate three-panel illustrations (To the Avon River above Stratford, Canada). In all of these Bates display a technical virtuosity that allows him to `live on the point of the graver\' where there is the constant danger of passing the point of no return.
Publicado por Porcupine\'s Quill, 2003
ISBN 10: 0889842663 ISBN 13: 9780889842663
Librería: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. `John Metcalf often comes as close to the baffling, painful comedy of human experience as a writer can get.\' (Alice Munro).
Publicado por Porcupine*s Quill, 2013
ISBN 10: 0889843619 ISBN 13: 9780889843615
Librería: dsmbooks, Liverpool, Reino Unido
paperback. Condición: New. New. book.
Publicado por Porcupine*s Quill, 2004
ISBN 10: 0889842566 ISBN 13: 9780889842564
Librería: dsmbooks, Liverpool, Reino Unido
paperback. Condición: New. New. book.
Publicado por Porcupine*s Quill, 2002
ISBN 10: 0889842426 ISBN 13: 9780889842427
Librería: dsmbooks, Liverpool, Reino Unido
paperback. Condición: New. New. book.
Publicado por Porcupine*s Quill, 2004
ISBN 10: 0889842396 ISBN 13: 9780889842397
Librería: dsmbooks, Liverpool, Reino Unido
paperback. Condición: New. New. book.
Publicado por Porcupine*s Quill, 2013
ISBN 10: 088984366X ISBN 13: 9780889843660
Librería: dsmbooks, Liverpool, Reino Unido
paperback. Condición: New. New. book.
Publicado por Porcupine*s Quill, 2003
ISBN 10: 0889842582 ISBN 13: 9780889842588
Librería: dsmbooks, Liverpool, Reino Unido
paperback. Condición: New. New. book.
Publicado por Porcupine*s Quill, 2000
ISBN 10: 088984206X ISBN 13: 9780889842069
Librería: dsmbooks, Liverpool, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: New. New. book.
Publicado por Porcupine*s Quill, 2005
ISBN 10: 0889842760 ISBN 13: 9780889842762
Librería: dsmbooks, Liverpool, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: New. New. book.
Publicado por Porcupine*s Quill, 2001
ISBN 10: 0889842205 ISBN 13: 9780889842205
Librería: dsmbooks, Liverpool, Reino Unido
paperback. Condición: Good. Good. book.