Book Review
Dirtdobber Blues
A multimedia work of art, Cyril Vetter’s first novel, Dirtdobber Blues, encourages readers to experience the semi-biographical story of blues musician Charles “Butch” Hornsby through many different avenues. The narrative itself...
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Kaleidoscope
Fans of the prolific Canadian poet P. K. Page, rejoice. Not only is her newest selected poems, Kaleidoscope: Selected Poems, available, but the collection will eventually be accompanied by an online scholarly edition to aid in research...
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God, Seed
Line and image mix organically in "God, Seed", the collaborative collection from poet Rebecca Foust and artist Lorna Stevens. Here, Foust’s moving, contemplative poems—focusing on contemporary environmental problems and their human...
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Before We Went Wireless
As David Ellis Evans and Ivor Hughes note, modern people live in a device-driven world. Most read, talk, research, and relax on computers and cell phones, oftentimes without ever wondering how this high tech world came to be so. Thanks...
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Joyce Wieland
In Joyce Wieland: Writings and Drawings, editor Jane Lind curates a collection of journals and sketches, granting readers a multi-dimensional look at the life of Canadian artist Joyce Wieland. Wieland, born into a “rough-and-tumble”...
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Slant Room
"Slant Room", poet Michael Eden Reynolds’ first collection, contains dense, compressed lines of poetry which move contemplatively through the Yukon landscape. Beautifully crystallized, the images in "Slant Room" evoke a frozen scene,...
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The Founding Foodies
Offering a new perspective on America’s food culture, Dave DeWitt’s "The Founding Foodies" explores the food “scene” of the early United States, mixing recipes and images with a studied history of colonial Americans’ farming...
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How to Survive Your Freshman Year
From older friends to siblings to parents, there’s no shortage of college graduates willing to share their battle stories: all-nighters over cups of coffee, frat parties, that awful dormitory dining hall. Their tales, though valuable,...