Collected Chapbooks 1997 2009

"This collection includes four chapbooks, “chapter books,” books under 100 pages. “Journey of a Martyr ” is a poetic allegory that explores the dynamic of “a calling.” “Fatherhood and Sonship ” pulls from life experience as a celebration of bonding between three generations: father, son, grandson. It was written while the author‚s father approached death and while his own son approached manhood.“The World on Stilts ” is a fictionalized prose account portraying a man redefining the geometry that composes his life.“Seasons with an Unearthed Soul,” through metaphor and personification, captures two critical concepts?what matters most and what constitutes forevermore?and the influences they have on how one sees, feels, dreams, thinks, believes, and hopes.

After much debate, the editorial staff at Gaspereau Press rejected the idea of marking our tenth anniversary with commemorative trinkets, deciding instead to do what we do best-books! This spring we are releasing the first volume of our three-volume Gaspereau Gloriatur: Book of the Blessed Tenth Year. Volume one celebrates the very best poetry issued from our presses. Our editorial team has been sifting back through the catalogue, through full-length trade titles, limited editions, letterpress books, Devil's Whim chapbooks and broadsides. We've also collected some of the poems that have mischievously snuck into books of prose over the years. Since 1997, Gaspereau Press has published some of Canada's finest poets, including well-established talents like Tim Bowling, Robert Bringhurst, George Elliott Clarke, Douglas Lochhead, David Helwig, Ross Leckie, Don McKay, John Terpstra and Jan Zwicky, and newer names like Michael deBeyer, K.I. Press and Carmine Starnino. The quality of the Gaspereau Press poetry program has been recognized with many regional and national awards and nominations. In 2001, George Elliott Clarke's Execution Poems won the Governor General's Award. Carmine Starnino's With English Subtitles won the 2004 A.M. Klein Prize and the 2006 Bressani Prize; Robert Bringhurst's Ursa Major and Jan Zwicky's Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences were both shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize; Michael deBeyer's Rural Night Catalogue was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award; and David Helwig's The Year One won the Atlantic Poetry Prize in 2005. (Just to name a few.) This anthology celebrates a decade of literary publishing, bringing samples of stylistically diverse poetry together in a single volume. Stay tuned for details about the penultimate and ultimate volumes to come in the fall.

This timely volume explores the signal contribution George Saunders has made to the development of the short story form in books ranging from CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) to Tenth of December (2013). The book brings together a team of scholars from around the world to explore topics ranging from Saunders’s treatment of work and religion to biopolitics and the limits of the short story form. It also includes an interview with Saunders specially conducted for the volume, and a preliminary bibliography of his published works and critical responses to an expanding and always exciting creative œuvre. Coinciding with the release of the Saunders’ first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo (2017), George Saunders: Critical Essays is the first book-length consideration of a major contemporary author’s work. It is essential reading for anyone interested in twenty-first century fiction.

Provide your mystery fans with background information on their favorite writers and series characters, and use this as a guide for adding contemporary titles to your collections. This book examines 100 of today's top mystery novels and mystery authors hailing from countries such as the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, South Africa, and Australia. Equally valuable to students writing research papers, readers craving new authors or more information about their favorite authors, and teachers seeking specific types of fiction to support curricula, 100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies provides revealing information about today's best mysteries and authors—without any "spoilers." Each of the accomplished writers included in this guide has established a broad audience and is recognized for work that is imaginative and innovative. The rising stars of 21st century mystery will also be included, as will authors who have won the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award.

To honor FSG's 75th anniversary, here is a unique anthology celebrating the riches and variety of its poetry list—past, present, and future Poetry has been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux's identity ever since Robert Giroux joined the fledgling company in the mid-1950s, soon bringing T. S. Eliot, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and Elizabeth Bishop onto the list. These extraordinary poets and their successors have been essential in helping define FSG as a publishing house with a unique place in American letters. The FSG Poetry Anthology includes work by almost all of the more than one hundred twenty-five poets whom FSG has published in its seventy-five-year history. Giroux's first generation was augmented by a group of international figures (and Nobel laureates), including Pablo Neruda, Nelly Sachs, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Joseph Brodsky. Over time the list expanded to includes poets as diverse as Yehuda Amichai, John Ashbery, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Grace Paley, Carl Phillips, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, James Schuyler, C. K. Williams, Charles Wright, James Wright, and Adam Zagajewski. Today, Henri Cole, francine j. harris, Ishion Hutchinson, Maureen N. McLane, Ange Mlinko, Valzhyna Mort, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Frederick Seidel are among the poets who are continuing FSG's tradition as a discoverer and promoter of the most vital and distinguished contemporary voices. This anthology is a wide-ranging showcase of some of the best poems published in America over the past three generations. It is also a sounding of poetry's present and future.

In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writers and reached the populace in printed form. Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America engages with the long-running debate over the origin of traditional songs by examining street literature’s interaction with, and influence on, oral traditions.