The Best Canadian Essays 2009 (The Best Canadian Essays in English) - Softcover

Boyd, Alex; Starnino, Carmine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1926639057 ISBN 13: 9781926639055

Verlag: Tightrope Books, 2009

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Reseña del editor:

Carefully compiled from numerous Canadian publications by two award-winning authors, this collection of essays represents exemplary writing and a diverse range of topics from Canadian writers. Chosen specifically for their capacity to help shape Canadian cultural consciousness, these essays will by turns move and excite readers with such topics as life with a child with Asperger's, the last days of a Montreal convent, the devastation of the Alberta tar sands, and the state of Canadian theatre. Featured writers include Kamal Al-Solaylee, Katherine Ashenburg, Kris Demeanor, Jessa Gamble, Nicholas Hune-Brown, Chris Kontges, Anita Lahey, Alison Lee, Nick Mount, Denis Seguin, Chris Turner, Lori Theresa Waller, Nathan Whitlock, and Chris Wood.

Biografía del autor:

Alex Boyd is the author of poems, fiction, reviews, and essays and has been published in magazines and newspapers such as Taddle Creek, dig, Books in Canada, the Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire and online publications such as the Danforth Review. He was the host of the IV Lounge Reading Series for five years. He is a coeditor of the online journal Northern Poetry Review, and his poetry collection Making Bones Walk won the Gerald Lampert Award. He lives in Toronto, Ontario. Carmine Starnino is an author and poet. He is the recipient of the F. G. Bressani Literary Prize, the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Award. He is the author of the poetry collection This Way Out, the essay collection A Lover's Quarrel, and is the editor of The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry. He is the editor of Maisonneuve magazine. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

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• Verlag: Tightrope Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1926639057
• ISBN 13: 9781926639055
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136