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Product Description: "He wants to sit and visit at the kitchen table, and he can hardly wait to get on the road again." - From Chapter 1Robert Kroetsch, one of Canada's most important writers, was a fierce regionalist with a porous yet resilient sense of "home...read more

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9781772121193, titled "The Home Place: Essays on Robert Kroetsch’s Poetry" | Univ of Alberta Pr, May 2, 2016, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: "He wants to sit and visit at the kitchen table, and he can hardly wait to get on the road again.

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Product Description: The moon migrates, seasons cycle, and the body ebbs and flows. Drawing together the skeins of existence and his family's nearness, Dennis Cooley's departures joyously intermingles poetry and science. In the end, faced with his own mortality, Cooley fights back with great big clods of earthy humour and humility...read more

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9780888015631 | Turnstone Pr, April 15, 2016, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The moon migrates, seasons cycle, and the body ebbs and flows.

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Product Description: would you believe me when i make consorts of alphabet runaways & stayathomes i have rounded up where they wandered all over the page Dennis Cooley masterfully extends the genre of the abecedary to explore his curiosity of the limitlessness of human communication...read more

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9780888646453 | Univ of Alberta Pr, March 15, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: would you believe me when i make consorts of alphabet runaways & stayathomes i have rounded up where they wandered all over the page Dennis Cooley masterfully extends the genre of the abecedary to explore his curiosity of the limitlessness of human communication.

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9781897235508 | 1 edition (Thistledown Pr Ltd, April 1, 2009), cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Country Music is as prairie as the long poem gets, and breathes new life into an established form.

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9780969348283 | Kalamalka Pr, December 30, 2008, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Country Music is as prairie as the long poem gets, and breathes new life into an established form.

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Product Description: Dennis Cooley, one of Canada’s most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other Canadian poets, but he insists on disturbing the formal poetic inheritance he esteems...read more

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9781554580071 | Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr, July 1, 2007, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Dennis Cooley, one of Canada’s most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices.

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Product Description: In the bentleys, Dennis Cooley, with his trademark energy and verve, has recreated the tensions and themes of Sinclair Ross's classic prairie novel As for Me and My House. Celebrating 'love in a dry land,' Cooley, with his deft, playful command of language, and his typographic exuberance, demonstrates his mastery of the long prairie poem...read more

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9780888644701 | Univ of Alberta Pr, November 30, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the bentleys, Dennis Cooley, with his trademark energy and verve, has recreated the tensions and themes of Sinclair Ross's classic prairie novel As for Me and My House.

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Product Description: Policing in Canada is in the process of change: similar to other nations in the western world, many of the policing services that were provided by public forces in the past are being gradually handed over to private security agencies...read more
By Dennis Cooley (editor)

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9780802036810 | Univ of Toronto Pr, March 30, 2005, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: Policing in Canada is in the process of change: similar to other nations in the western world, many of the policing services that were provided by public forces in the past are being gradually handed over to private security agencies.

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9780802085030 | Univ of Toronto Pr, March 30, 2005, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Policing in Canada is in the process of change: similar to other nations in the western world, many of the policing services that were provided by public forces in the past are being gradually handed over to private security agencies.

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Product Description: Nominated for the Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year Award (Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards)."Dennis Cooley's deft-and-epic re-imagining of the Dracula 'film noir' reveals a Romantic-rhapsodic Count, a man as frenzied as Byron and as philosophical/ funny as Borges...read more

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9780888012777 | Turnstone Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Nominated for the Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year Award (Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards).

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Product Description: You are about to read a book like no other. Bloody Jack is a collection about the making and unmaking of story, of poetry and of history. Based loosely on the life of John Krafchenko, a notorious Manitoban outlaw, the poems of Bloody Jack turn fact and fiction upside down and inside out...read more

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9780888643919 | Univ of Alberta Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: You are about to read a book like no other.

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Product Description: The poems in Irene, written before and after Cooley's mother's death, form an elegy to her. In Cooley's words: ." . . it's taken on some associations, connections with the Persephone story perhaps most obviously. The book is very personal, very close and emotional to me...read more

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9780888012463 | Turnstone Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The poems in Irene, written before and after Cooley's mother's death, form an elegy to her.

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Product Description: This collection presents the best of Cooley's work: the meditations and memories, the games and the lyrics, the elegies and the dramatic monologues, and the poems of carefully wrought observation. The language is always alive. He's always paying attention, tipping the balance, and maintaining a constant state of wonder...read more

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9780887845802 | House of Anansi Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: This collection presents the best of Cooley's work: the meditations and memories, the games and the lyrics, the elegies and the dramatic monologues, and the poems of carefully wrought observation.

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Product Description: A study of Canadian poet Eli Mandel and his work.

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9781550220711 | E C W Pr, December 1, 1992, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A study of Canadian poet Eli Mandel and his work.

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Product Description: In this only home, Cooley's satellite eye, located in the faraway reaches of outer space, rediscovers our world from a new -perspective with the kind of awe and wonder traditionally reserved for the world's first explorers. Faces once unfamiliar become those of family and friends as this only home distills all people, all places and all time into one small space: the earth, our planet...read more

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9780888011640 | Turnstone Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: In this only home, Cooley's satellite eye, located in the faraway reaches of outer space, rediscovers our world from a new -perspective with the kind of awe and wonder traditionally reserved for the world's first explorers.

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9780920633366 | Thistledown Pr Ltd, April 1, 1988, cover price $22.00

Book by Cooley, Dennis

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9780919926790 | Coteau Books, March 1, 1988, cover price $16.00

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9780919926783 | Coteau Books, March 1, 1988, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Book by Cooley, Dennis

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By Dennis Cooley (editor)

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9780888010377 | Reprint edition (Turnstone Pr, January 1, 1984), cover price $9.95

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Product Description: RePlacing is the first collection of essays, reviews, interview and statements devoted entirely to Canada’s Prairie Poetry, edited by Dennis Cooley. RePlacing includes writing by or on Robert Kroetsch, Lorna Uher, Pat Lane, Elizabeth Brewster, John Newlove, Andy Suknaski, and many more poets...read more

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9780920802342 | E C W Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $3.75 | About this edition: RePlacing is the first collection of essays, reviews, interview and statements devoted entirely to Canada’s Prairie Poetry, edited by Dennis Cooley.

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