Arsenal Pulp Press

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

The Lost Century by Larissa Lai
Special Topics in Being a Human: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I’ve Learned the Hard Way about Caring for People, Including Myself by S. Bear Bergman and Saul Freedman-Lawson
nedí nezų (Good Medicine) by Tenille K. Campbell
Render by Sachiko Murakami
Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry by Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme
Oracle Bone by Lydia Kwa
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
Don't Tell Me What To Do by Dina Del Bucchia
In Case I Go by Angie Abdou
Universal Recipients by Dana Bath
Random Acts of Hatred by George K. Ilsley
The Mercy Journals by Claudia Casper
Straight to the Head by Fraser Nixon
Foucault Against Himself by François Caillat and David Homel
A Superior Man by Paul Yee
Skandalon by Julie Maroh
Adrian and the Tree of Secrets by Hubert, Marie Caillou and David Homel
When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid
She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya and Raymond Biesinger
God Loves Hair by Vivek Shraya and Juliana Neufield
Between by Angie Abdou
Nothing Looks Familiar by Shawn Syms
V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside by Elee Kraljii Gardiner and John Mikhail Asfour
How Poetry Saved my Life: A Hustler’s Memoir by Amber Dawn
The World is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake by Dany Laferrière and David Homel
Beauty Plus City by Kevin Chong
Girl Unwrapped by Gabriella Goliger
The Only Poetry That Matters by Clint Burnham
in the house of winter by Anne McKay
After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region by Wayde Compton
Seeing Reds by Daniel Francis
The Yellow Pear by Gu Xiong
Jane by Judy MacDonald
Spree by Pamela Klaffke
The Asthmatic Glassblower and other poems by Billeh Nickerson
All Amazed for Roy Kiyooka by John O'Brian, Naomi Sawada and Scott Watson
Hundred Block Rock by Bud Osborn
Skids by Cathleen With
Seminal by Billeh Nickerson and John Barton
Soucouyant by David Chariandy
Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver by Karen Love
Between Lovers by Sheri-D Wilson
Desilicious: Sexy. Subversive. South Asian by The Masala Trois Collective
Spree: A Cultural History of Shopping by Pamela Klaffke
Kid Stuff by Tom Walmsley
Filler Text by Billeh Nickerson and Robert Stanton
Gold Earrings: Selected Poetry by Sharon Stevenson
O-Bon in Chimunesu: A Community Remembered by Catherine Lang
The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Literature by Daniel Francis
Archives for Our Times: Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems by Dorothy Livesay and Dean J. Irvine
The Time of the Kingfishers by David Watmough
The Future is Queer by Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel
queersexlife by Terry Goldie
Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman
Flat by Mark Macdonald
The Yellow Pear by Gu Xiong and Maria Noëlle Ng
Home by Mark Macdonald
The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar by Ashok Mathur
The Sweet Taste of Lightning: Po'ems and Po'em-o-logues by Sheri-D Wilson
Jane
Queer View Mirror: Lesbian and Gay Short Short Fiction by Karen X. Tulchinsky and James C. Johnstone
Contra/Diction by Brett Josef Grubisic
Vancouver: Representing the Postmodern City by Paul Delany
I Can Fix Anything by Gary Whitehead
In a Queer Country: Gay and Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context by Terry Goldie
Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers: The Cha-Cha Years by Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco
Raw Material by M. A. C. Farrant
Close to Spider Man by Ivan E. Coyote
Queer View Mirror 2: Lesbian and Gay Short Short Fiction by James C. Johnstone and Karen X. Tuchinsky
Bow Grip by Ivan E. Coyote
Everything but the Truth by Christopher McPherson
Lament for a Notion: The Life and Death of Canada's Bilingual Dream by Scott Reid
Shades: The Whole Story of Doctor Tin by Tom Walmsley
Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature by Wayde Compton
Carnal Nation: Brave New Sex Fictions by Carellin Brooks and Brett Josef Grubisic
Exhibitions: Tales of Sex in the City by Michelle Davidson
Out of This World: The Natural History of Milton Acorn by Chris Gudgeon
Ragas From the Periphery by Pindar Dulai
Altered Statements by M. A. C. Farrant
Tender Agencies by Dennis Denisoff
Selected Poems by Douglas Fetherling
Saltwater Trees by J. Jill Robinson
Company Town by Michael Turner
A Little Distillery in Nowgong by Ashok Mathur
Automaton Biographies by Larissa Lai
Voices of Change: Immigrant Writers Speak Out by Jurgen Hesse
A Plague Year Journal by Michael Estok
Driving the Angels Out by St. John Simmons
Torque: Collected Fiction, 1960-1987: Volume I by J. Michael Yates
in the house of winter by Rod Anderson and Anne McKay
The Portable City by Don Austin
The Lost Tribe by Don Austin
The Classical Torso in 1986 by Diana Hayes
Nothing So Natural by Jim Curry
The Portable City by Don Austin
Anhaga by Jon Furberg
The Voice of Emma Sachs by D. M. Fraser
Among Other Howls in the Storm by Norm Sibum
Coyote's Running Here by Mark Mealing
The National Hen by Dan Dougherty
Inch Man by Ken Eisler
Class Warfare by D. M. Fraser
Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada’s First War on Terror by Daniel Francis
Girl Unwrapped by Gabriella Goliger
The Only Poetry That Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing by Clint Burnham
Beauty Plus Pity by Kevin Chong
Missed Her: Stories by Ivan E. Coyote
One in Every Crowd: Stories by Ivan E. Coyote
language is not the only thing that breaks by Proma Tagore
The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book: From the WTO to the G20 by Gord Hill