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Iconic political speeches are some of the best remembered and most repeated passages in contemporary English language.

Grief is personal and unpredictable; no two people experience it the same way, and yet, each person that comes out the other side is transformed by their experience of loss and redemption.In a sequ

Because fear can transform into confidence, recklessness, the kind of power you can't imagine until you're inside it.

Shattered by the death of her sister, Louise Parker heads for England, intent on starting afresh. She arrives in the London of the early 1960's, where everything seems possible.

With an Introduction by World Chess Champion Jennifer ShahadeIn 1968, avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp and composer John Cage exhibited Reunion, a chess performance that took place in Toronto.

Lovers wrote letters. Letters crossed absence, longing, joy, passion, loss and heartbreak. Sometimes letters were answered. Sometimes not.

Guinea-Bissau, 2012. Mixing fiction and fact, Sylvain Prudhomme revisits the famous '70s music group Super Mama Djombo, as seen through the eyes of Couto, the laconic guitarist.

Scrupulously researched, full of incidents and anecdotes.

In A Step in the Right Direction, Søndergaard continues a line of thought he first developed in Bees Die Sleeping and continued in Vinci, Later (which was published in English in 2005).

It was a long silence that brought me to the erasure poem. Not mine, but my brother's, during his many months in a coma.

fur(l) parachute claims as its surrogate the Old English poem “Wulf and Eadwacer.” Declining from a mutant echo of this nineteen-line fragment that appears in the tenth century Exeter manuscript as

Agony is the first in a trilogy of long confessional poems.

The early years of Seth's life had been a prison of fear, abuse and neglect. Now a successful artist, Seth returns to Chesapeake Bay to the only real family he has ever known.

Butt out, Dante. Move over, Milton. Piss off, Pound. Outta the way, Olson.

On June 6, 2012, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumour.