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Canadian Literature's Winter 2009 issue (CL#203), "Home, Memory, Self", celebrates the home with papers about migrant identities, ghettoization, comics history, Alzheimer's disease, settlement narratives, and exile writing.

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The Automatist Movement of Montreal: Towards Non-Figuration in Painting, Dance, and Poetry by Ray Ellenwood

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The Art of Work

Kate Braid (Author)

A Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems. Caitlin Press

Linda Frank (Author)

Kahlo: The World Split Open. Buschek Books

Arleen Paré (Author)

Paper Trail. NeWest Press

Alice Major (Author)

The Office Tower Tales. University of Alberta Press

Reviewed by Crystal Hurdle

The late great Carol Shields, in promoting her novel Larry's Party, commented how much she disliked the then hugely popular film, Four Weddings and a Funeral, not because of its schmaltz, but because none of the characters worked. These four highly original books of poetry explore the question of work. Is it relentless dailiness? : "we just do / the same things over and over every day / until we retire," says Sherry, the storyteller in The Office Tower Tales [...]

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