Product Description: Poetry. Taking as its instigation Charles Olson's "Poem 143—the Festival Aspect," Michael Boughn's CITY attempts to navigate the visionary registers that animate the city and its moods. A long poem in three books, each book is set up to explore a different dimension of the city...read more

Product Description: Poetry. GREAT CANADIAN POEMS FOR THE AGED VOL. 1. ILLUS. ED. dares to go where no book of Canadian poetry has gone before—deep into the heart of darkness epitomized by the idea of the Great White North. Except white is not dark...read more

Product Description: Toronto’s David Sanders and Claire Dumont are the Nick and Nora Charles of academia: two amateur detectives pulled into a web of deceit and violence involving murder, the illegal cross-border dumping of toxic waste, organized crime, dubious, self-serving politicians, and a mysterious, ambitious businessman whose loyalties are unknown...read more

Product Description: Poetry. 22 SKIDOO takes as its playground the junkyard of Modernity. In a contemporary world which discards memory and experience along with last season's shoes, any building over 25 years old, and millions of tons of last year's computers and cell phones, these poems recycle archeologically recovered materials into a funny, lively exploration of the possibilities of creation in a world where the young think that what Duke Ellington made wasn't really music...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Butt out, Dante. Move over, Milton. Piss off, Pound. Outta the way, Olson. Here comes COSMOGRAPHIA: A POST-LUCRECIAN FAUX MICRO-EPIC, the latest ground breaking incursion into the ever popular spectacle of the Epic Poem. Tracking the classic epic journey through the unfolding cosmos toward home, though occasionally disoriented by milling cows with similar intent, Cosmographia teems with nasty political invective, scurrilous spiritual slander, and endless exploitive sexual innuendo...read more

Looks at mythological and religious beliefs regarding what happens to the soul after death, including how souls travel around the underworlds, how to enter and exit them, and who rules over them.

Product Description: Adrift in history and myth, fairy tales and TV, the tedious and the marvellous, you'll find Dislocations in Crystal.These poems move through the world opened by Prince Henry the Navigator's epoch-shifting push to open a sea route around Africa to the Spice Isles...read more

Product Description: Known to young readers, booksellers and librarians around the world, the Champion Sports Biography Series captures the life story of popular atheletes both today and the colorful history of sport. Not limited to simply male, big league sporting figures, the Champion Series also focuses on top female athletes (the Williams sisters for example) and athletes who`s appeal is international (Michael Schumacher or Ronaldo)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Follows the rise of the ice hockey player, discusses Wayne Gretzky's professional and personal career, and remarks on the impact he has had on the sport. (view table of contents)

A portrait of a 7'11' poor kid from Newark, who became a professional basketball player and movie star, includes a black and white photo section. Original.

A look at the career of a top tennis player, who has been a professional since he was 16, discusses how he has had to deal with many problems over the course of his career. Original.

Traces the career of Michael Jordan, who led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships

Product Description: This is a bibliography of the British modernist poet H.D., who has become the subject of renewed interest. It lists all primary and secondary material by and about H.D., including descriptions of all editions and issues of her books...read more