The Blue Books by
is one of this nation's best, most innovative writers, and The Blue Books collects and republishes three of her early, groundbreaking novels, which appeared decades ago in slim blue covered editions. These books are still as exciting and strange as when they were first published, and the Winnipegger in me delights in the fact of three books for the price of one.
The Book of Tea by
wrote this book to introduce the ways of tea-drinking, and Japanese thought in a general sense, to Westerners. I love tea but what I'm enjoying so far about this book is the way writes-his is a fiery, passionate style, a sharp contrast to the measured, restrained mood of the tea ceremony he describes. Although this book is ostensibly about tea, writes also about philosophy, nature, history, and art-all fine complements to a cup of tea.
is the author of Ex Machina (BookThug, 2009), available at McNally Robinson Grant Park. Visit him online at www.jonathanball.com
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Nicole Brossard's lucid, subversive and innovative work on language has influenced an entire generation of readers and writers. But three of her seminal works of postmodernism and feminis...
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A long poem at the fringes of the Canadian tradition, Ex Machina is a latticework of poetic and philosophical statements concerning the symbiosis of humans, books, and machines. A series ...
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