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In unflinching lyrics, Sue Chenette confronts her father’s depression and death.

Most contemporary poets wear their cultural and artistic influences on their sleeve.

In French, Tombeau de Lou. At its origin, the death of the childhood friend, the chosen sister, swept away by a sudden cancer. She was fifty-three. Like the poet.

Songwriter Michel Laflamme is stuck in traffic on Montreal’s Jacques Cartier Bridge.

The poetic vision of "A Taste of Earth, A Taste of Flame" is timeless. It is also a work rooted in the thought of our own era.

This is a posthumous collection of poems.

Daniel Sloate (1931-2009) was a prolific poet, playwright and translator.

The poems in this selection were written and published between 1954 and 1977, except for two poems which have never appeared in book form before. Fred Cogswell writes crystalline poems.

This book is the first part of Patriarca's trilogy on Italian women.

In the original introduction to Pascal D'Angelo's Son of Italy, the renowned literary critic Carl Van Doren praised D'Angelo's autobiography as an impassioned story of his "enormous struggles again

An experiment in what the author terms "speculative history," this novel tracks the movements of a man haunted by the spirit of his deceased mother and dogged by the notion that Astoria - the Itali

The writing of Carlos De Oliviera is usually considered neorealist, but this selection of poems also shows the influence of symbolism, surrealism, and cubism.

These poems test the capacity of individuals, families, communities, and the earth itself to stand the pressures of modern life.

Haunting and memorable, the poems in this collection exhibit a sensuous command of language.

Naked brilliantly illustrates the theatricalist mode Pirandello invented for dramatizing multiple points of view simultaneously.