Book Reviews

]Thought ]Barefoot (p. 108-110)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • If Not, Winter by Anne Carson
  • Economy of the Unlost (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) by Anne Carson

The Battle of Tango (p. 110-111)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lyric/Anti-Lyric: Essays on Contemporary Poetry by Douglas Barbour
  • A Magpie Life: Growing a Writer by George Bowering
  • Living Here by David Helwig

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Selected Stories, Volume One: Southern Stories by Clark Blaise

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Where the Words Come From: Canadian Poets in Conversation by Tim Bowling
  • The Matrix Interviews: Moosehead Anthology #8 by R. E. N. Allen and Angela Carr
  • Vis à Vis: Fieldnotes on Poetry & Wilderness by Don McKay

Two Gold Bricks (p. 117-119)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The End of Travel by Julie Bruck
  • Anthem by Helen Humphreys

Book(s) Reviewed

  • traffick by Rob Budde
  • Latent Heat by Catherine Hunter

Vanished Frames (p. 121-122)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Airborne Photo by Clint Burnham
  • Blonds on Bikes by George Bowering

Imagining Justice (p. 122-124)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State by Alan C. Cairns
  • Justice in Paradise by Bruce Clark

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Race and Racism: Canada's Challenge by Leo Driedger and Shiva S. Halli
  • Dreaming Black Writing White: The Hagar Myth in American Cultural History by Janet Gabler-Hover
  • Being Black: Essays by Althea Prince
  • Writing from the Borderlands: A Study of Chicano, Afro-Caribbean and Native Literatures in North America by Carmen Cáliz-Montoro

Zoom In, Zoom Out (p. 127-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • all you expect of the road by Sue Nevill
  • Facts by Bruce Taylor
  • Clouds Without Heaven by Mary Cameron
  • A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway by Jeanette Lynes

Lyrical Scrutiny (p. 129-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Crows Do Not Have Retirement by David Zieroth
  • Mind Over Mountains: Selected and Collected Poems by Jon Whyte
  • Stream Under Flight by John Livingstone Clark
  • Modigliani by Martin Gray

Exercising Maleness (p. 131-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Change Room by Mark Cochrane
  • His Life by George Bowering
  • Autodidactic by Don Kerr

Five Anthologies (p. 134-137)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Doors of the Morning by Fred Cogswell
  • New Life in Dark Seas by Stan Dragland
  • Writing Class by Andrew Klobucar and Michael Barnholden
  • Vintage 1999 by League of Canadian Poets
  • Vintage 2000 by League of Canadian Poets

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Opening the Island by Anne Compton
  • The Good Life by Brad Cran
  • Short Haul Engine by Karen Solie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Summertown by Anne Corkett
  • The Dark Side of the Moon by Gail Fox
  • In the Beginning by W. J. Keith

Short Pieces (p. 141-142)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Close to Spider Man by Ivan E. Coyote
  • Faggot!: Steel Kiss and Gulag by Robin Fulford
  • Bafflegab by Stan Rogal
  • Looking for Brothers by Michael Rowe

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rouleaux de printemps by Patrice Desbiens

Aesthetic Distances (p. 144-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Second Earth: Poems Selected and New by Harold Enrico
  • Tom Thomson and Other Poems by George Whipple
  • Collected Poems by Eldon Grier

Findley’s Ground (p. 146-147)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Spadework by Timothy Findley

Three First Novels (p. 147-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Then Again by Elyse Friedman
  • Burning Ground by Pearl Luke
  • Excessive Joy Injures the Heart by Elisabeth Harvor

Crossroads (p. 150-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Dominion of Wyley McFadden by Scott Gardiner
  • Burridge Unbound by Alan Cumyn
  • The Grave by James Heneghan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 15 Canadian Poets x 3 by Gary Geddes

Lie to Me (p. 154-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Make Believe Love by Lee Gowan
  • Liar by Joanna Gosse
  • Half Known Lives by Joan Givner
  • Ondine's Curse by Steven Manners

Perfect Cree (p. 156-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Near Water by Hugh Hood

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Teaching Literature and Medicine by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins and Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

The Use of Beauty (p. 159-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Different Silence: Selected Poems by árni Ibsen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Fall of Gravity by Leon Rooke
  • The Pornographer's Poem by Michael Turner
  • 19 Knives by Mark Anthony Jarman

Restless Women (p. 162-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ring Finger, Left Hand by Katherine Lawrence
  • Some Bones and a Story by Alice Major
  • Talking Down the Northern Lights by Shelley A. Leedahl

Atwood in Europe (p. 164-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact by Reingard M. Nischik
  • To Join, to Fit, and to Make: The Creative Craft of Margaret Atwood's Fiction by Christina Ljungberg

Opening Words (p. 166-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Other Harmony: The Collected Poetry of Eli Mandel by Andrew Stubbs, Judy Chapman and Eli Mandel

Take and Read (p. 167-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Flat Side by Monty Reid
  • Parable Beach by Paddy McCallum
  • The Science of Nothing by Marty Gervais
  • The Hornbooks of Rita K by Robert Kroetsch

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Somewhere Running by Nathalie Stephens
  • Hypothesis by John Barton
  • ashes are bone and dust by Jill Battson
  • Wild Mouse by Chris Chambers and Derek McCormack

A Generic Africa (p. 171-172)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The God Who Begat a Jackal by Nega Mezlekia

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person: A Transelation by Eirin Mouré
  • The Weather by Lisa Robertson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Odes by Ken Norris
  • Limbo Road by Ken Norris
  • Hotel Montreal: New and Selected Poems by Ken Norris

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares by Carmen L. Oliveira and Neil Besner
  • Divisions of the Heart: Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Memory and Place by Sandra Barry, Gwendolyn Davies and Peter Sanger

The Printed Page (p. 178-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Alphabetical and Cosmologies by P. K. Page

Ecce Homo (p. 179-180)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Testament by Nino Ricci

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Duncan Campbell Scott: Addresses, Essays, and Reviews by Leslie Ritchie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Performing the Literary Interviews by John Rodden
  • Pragmatic Plagiarism: Authorship, Profit, and Power by Marilyn Randall

Bedfellows (p. 184-185)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Angelic Echoes: Hervé Guibert and Company by Ralph Sarkonak
  • Bisexuality & the Eroticism of Everyday Life by Majorie Garber

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminisms in a Transnational Age by Ella Shohat

Interpreting Poetry (p. 188-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Poetic Epistemologies: Gender and Knowing in Women's Language-Oriented Writing by Megan Simpson
  • ABC of reading TRG by Peter Jaeger

Ivory Thoughts (p. 189-190)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Last Canadian Poet: An Essay on Al Purdy by Sam Solecki

Book(s) Reviewed

  • News & Smoke: Selected Poems by Sharon Thesen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Into the Fold by Jacqueline Turner
  • Into the Peculiar Dark by Anne F. Walker
  • Scissor, Paper, Woman by Marianne Bluger

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Frances by W. D. Valgardson

Open Meditations (p. 195-196)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Tapeworm Foundry by Darren Werschler-Henry
  • Burn by Paul Vermeersch
  • Chess Pieces by David Solway
  • Light-crossing by Michael Redhill