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MacLennan Hugh
Barometer Rising (New Canadian Library)
 List Price: Price: $46.08 DescriptionPenelope Wain believes that her lover, Neil Macrae, has been killed while serving overseas under her father. That he died apparently in disgrace does not alter her love for him, even though her father is insistent on his guilt. What neither Penelope or her father knows is that Neil is not dead, but has returned to Halifax to clear his name.Hugh MacLennan’s first novel is a compelling romance set against the horrors of wartime and the catastrophic Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917.
Mosaic Orpheus (Hugh MacLennan Poetry)
 List Price: Price: $7.50 You Save: $7.45 (50%) Description'Uncertain as always whether this republic is past saving or whether some of us still tread the perilous path of the future part of me just meditates on the new and more flourishing wildlife that is improving Point Reyes ten years after the Mount Vision fire From the glories of the Tang Dynasty I recall only one date: the year the usurper An Lushan drove both Wang Wei and Du Fu far from the corrupt court into the mountains where for the first time they were free to write the only poems we remember' - excerpt from "The Tao of 9/11". Working always to connect the polemical to the personal, Peter Dale Scott's political poems - from the tear gas of Berkeley protests in the 1960s to the problems of Thai forest monks in an era of drug-trafficking and deforestation - are a process of self-questioning. Self-questioning also marks his meditation poems, including a sequence on the death of his first wife. In opposition to contemporary poems of studied meaninglessness, Scott increasingly recognizes a compulsion in himself to radically reaffirm traditional rejections of the external world and turn to the refuges of poets before him, the enduring commonplaces that are more than cliches.
Wet Apples, White Blood (Hugh MacLennan Poetry)
 List Price: Price: $10.43 You Save: $4.52 (30%) DescriptionGalactopoesis is the medical term for the continued secretion and production of milk. It derives from the Greek radicals for 'milk' (galacto) and 'making' (poesis), which is also 'poetry.' In Wet Apples, White Blood, nursing, as a constant creative act dependent on the babys demand, is a trope for the creative process and for questions of biology, psychology, and spirituality.
Waterglass (Hugh Maclennan Poetry Series)
 List Price: Price: $14.85 You Save: $0.10 (1%) DescriptionWaterglass is wishful thinking. The word won't be found in the dictionary, nor will you come across the thing itself in any shop of curios. But there it rests, nonetheless, as an imagined possibility, among and between the lines of Jeffery Donaldson's second collection of verse.
All the God-Sized Fruit (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series)
 List Price: Price: $9.15 You Save: $5.80 (39%) DescriptionShawna Lemay scrutinizes some of the best-known art masterpieces of the Western World, alerting her readers to the power and peril of seduction. "All the God-sized Fruit" melds the sister arts - poetry and painting - in a sensual exploration of history, forgery, and violation. In poems rich with sensory pleasure, Lemay explores the place where image and inspiration meet.MacLennan Hugh News
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