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Book Reviews in April/May 2004 Issue

The Amateur Marriage
by Anne Tyler

Penguin $36 Hardcover
ISBN: 0670044911
Book Review
A Review of: The Amateur Marriage
by Lyall Bush
Anne Tyler has a way of creating modern fables that look and feel like realist fiction, but lack the easy resolutions of fables. The Amateur Marriage, her 16th novel, is no exception, though the eccentric optimism that shapes the pages of earlier novels is absent here, replaced by a view of life no less bright and now balanced by caution. Tyler's characteristic voice is present even in the opening pages which record a critical, film-like moment in the lives of a young couple in 1941. Days after Pearl Harbor, with Baltimore's St. Cassian neighborhood swept up in a small frenzy of enlisting, a pretty girl ...
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Oracle Night
by Paul Aster

H.B. Fenn & Company $29.95 Hardcover
ISBN: 0805073205
Book Review
A Review of: Oracle Night
by Michael Hale
Paul Auster can finally stop. After eight novels, three films, and over a dozen poetry collections and non-fiction books, the Jersey-born, Brooklyn-ensconced author has finally perfected the modern American cautionary tale. Working in a genre begun by Poe, shaped by Hammett and saturated with the same fear that fires Americans-at their best, and at their worst-Auster's latest novel, Oracle Night, is a tone-perfect narrative of the modern American Everyman. And as much as we may not want to believe it, there are universals in Auster's characters that seep ...
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Book Review
A Review of: JacobÆs Dream
by Lynda Grace Philippsen
Elizabeth Brewster's collection, Jacob's Dream, is the latest in a long career (beginning in the 1940s) of a poet now in her eighties. The collection is informed by an uplifting tenacity. The poems embrace hope and express gratitude in the face of an inevitable future: a not too distant death. In "Dark Cottage" (which is introduced as "Gloss on Edmund Waller's Old Age'") she writes: And yet the broken walls sometimes admit gusts of air, a wind laden with violets ...
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That Singing You Hear at the Edges
by Sue MacLeod

Signature Editions $14.95 Paperback
ISBN: 0921833903
Book Review
A Review of: That Singing You Hear at the Edges
by Lynda Grace Philippsen
That Singing You Hear at the Edges is Sue MacLeod's second book and poems in it have appeared in respected journals and anthologies since 1999. The opening and closing poems in the collection, "The God of Pockets" and "Especially for a woman, reading" (the strongest works in the collection) won first and second prizes in Arc's Poem of the Year contest and the League of Canadian Poets' National Poetry Contest, respectively. The poems in between occasionally offer interesting imagery and pose provocative questions: I wonder: When we spun ...
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Pouring Small Fire
by Susan Manchester

Nightwood Editions $18.81 Paperback
ISBN: 0889711895
Book Review
A Review of: Pouring Small Fire
by Lynda Grace Philippsen
Pouring Small Fire by Susan Manchester is a work of self-revelation, something apparent from her first awkward words of dedication: "To the parade of feelings created by others in me / and to the infinite shapes of all imagery, / I dedicate this small portion of who I am becoming." The image of a drunken father staggering home with his excuses in the opening poem "Eastern Standard" introduces an intense pain that roots itself deeply in this collection. Pain of alcoholism, the deaths of parents, an apparent pregnancy not carried to term, hysterectomy, the loss of vitality to grief, and the dissolution of ...
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Taking the Names Down from the Hill
by Philip Kevin Paul, Kevin Paul

Nightwood Editions $21.33 Paperback
ISBN: 0889711828
Book Review
A Review of: Taking the Names Down from the Hill
by Susan Briscoe
Philip Kevin Paul is not a cynical poet. He is not embarrassed by explicit spirituality or tender emotions. The poems of his first collection, animated by his First Nations heritage, bear titles such as "Toward the Beautiful Way", "Deer Medicine", "Ceremony", and "The Violet Light of Healing". The opening poem reveals the hopeful tone as well as the imagistic vocabulary of this collection: A crow walks its muddy kneeless walk ...
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Museum of Bone and Water
by Nicole Brossard

House of Anansi Press $17.95 Paperback
ISBN: 0887846866
Book Review
A Review of: Museum of Bone and Water
by Susan Briscoe
Museum of Bone and Water is. . .difficult poetry to enjoy. This is intentional given that Nicole Brossard has long been an experimental poet and, as a lesbian feminist, one of her most important projects has been the subversion of patriarchal language. For Brossard this entails the rejection of conventions of syntax and monologic signification in an effort to create an criture feminine. Now while this makes for interesting theory, it does not make for very satisfying poetry. Writing these poems may have been meaningful for Brossard (and certainly her focus is the creative process more than ...
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Island of the Blessed: the Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis
by Harry Thurston

Doubleday Canada $39.95 Hardcover
ISBN: 0385259697
Book Review
A Review of: Island of the Blessed
by Susan Briscoe
Hilary Clark's The Dwellings of Weather is her third collection, and it demonstrates a self-consciousness of craft that is sometimes inflated to self-reflexive angst: "I am breaking the lines / with terrible care," she tells us. About half the pieces here, however, are prose poems that don't have line breaks at all, and with just a few exceptions, the other half are very loosely constructed poems with lots of spaces and indentations and dashes. Yet the content of the two forms is so similar that the choice between them seems arbitrary, a varying device to keep poet and reader awake- perhaps necessary in a ...
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The Difficulties of Modernism
by Leonard Diepeveen

Routledge $36.35 Paperback
ISBN: 0415940699
Book Review
A Review of: The Difficulties of Modernism
by Asa Boxer
The year of crisis is 1922, the year of The Waste Land. Negotiations between T. S. Eliot and Dial magazine's Scofield Thayer were heated. Pound had been pimping The Waste Land as the culmination of twenty years of modernist efforts. Bidding began at $2,850, which Eliot declined, convinced he could get more. Interestingly, negotiations were started without anyone having examined the manuscript. In the end, the Dial Award was promised Eliot--again without anyone bothering to take a peek at the text. "Literary history," writes Lawrence Rainey, "records few spectacles so curious or so touching as that of ...
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Miss Smithers
by Susan Juby

Harper Collins Canada $15.99 Paperback
ISBN: 0006392652
Book Review
A Review of: Miss Smithers
by Heather Kirk
This young-adult novel chronicles the further adventures of Alice MacLeod, "world record holder in the Most Embarrassing Moments category," protagonist of Alice, I Think. In the sequel, Miss Smithers, 16-year-old Alice competes in the annual Miss Smithers competition in the isolated town of Smithers, in the northern interior of British Columbia. Often very funny, the story satirizes beauty contests, small-town life, and the Boomer generation. It also traces Alice's tentative growth toward greater self confidence and better relationships with family and friends. Although the book would have ...
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When I Was Little
by Jamie Lee Curtis

Scholastic Canada $7.99 Paperback
ISBN: 0590124714
Book Review
A Review of: Whe I Was Little: A Four-Year-OldÆs Memoir of Her Youth
by Olga Stein
Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born taps into every child's curiosity about her arrival in the world. Told as a child's imaginative reconstruction of how she began life with her parents, the story cleverly combines truth and exaggeration in the recounting of events which culminate in the adoption of a baby girl. A couple receives a call during the night. They take a plane immediately, and arrive in a hospital to receive their new daughter. It's a familiar story but with a tiny twist. The twist is tiny because the couple's nervous excitement at the prospect of meeting their child, their ...
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Tell me again about the night I was born
by Jamie Lee Curtis

Scholastic Canada $7.99 Paperback
ISBN: 0590038397
Book Review
A Review of: Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born
by Olga Stein
This is a delightful book for little people four to six years of age. The book don't merely tell a story-instead it holds up a colourful, zany and happy mirror to any child developing an awareness of herself, her own growth, her place within a family and the world beyond the home. When I Was Little portrays a little girl describing how things are different now that she is four. With her baby sister always close by-at the breakfast table, sharing a bath or a ride in the car-the four-year-old has many opportunities for making comparisons. She feels like a big girl and lists all the things she gets to do and is capable ...
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The Clearing
by Tim Gautreaux

Knopf $35 Hardcover
ISBN: 0375414746
Book Review
A Review of: The Clearing
by Matt Sturrock
What a surprise it is to read a "literary" novel and not be subjected to the maddeningly slow narrative progression, precious prose, or pseudo-philosophical noodling that so often afflicts the form. Where lesser novels succumb to stasis and tedium, The Clearing, despite its beautiful language and close attention to character, buffets the reader with maximum action. And in this case, the novel being superficially about a family's war against a Mafia syndicate in (of all places) a logging camp, the action is of a spectacularly violent variety. Barely a chapter goes by without some tough being ...
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Beyond Measure
by Pauline Holdstock

University Of Toronto Press $22.95 Paperback
ISBN: 189695149X
Book Review
A Review of: Beyond Measure
by Lisa Salem-Wiseman
The title of Beyond Measure, the new novel by B.C. writer Pauline Holdstock, suggests a world in which moral considerations have been discarded, in which even Protagoras's relativist dictum that "man is the measure of all things" has given way to the idea that the ethical realm has been abandoned altogether. This is the world of the Italian Renaissance; from the opening pages, which vividly depict a crowd's bloodthirsty reaction to a double hanging, to the final pages, which follow the creation of "a living boy of pure gold" for a celebration, the reader is plunged into a society which subjects the human body and ...
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Lightning
by Fred Stenson

Douglas & McIntyre $32.95 Hardcover
ISBN: 1553650107
Book Review
A Review of: Lightning
by Peter Yan
One distinctive mark of the Western genre is its brutal violence. Life is worth little more than tobacco spit in this literary world where power resides in the barrel of a gun and where lawless cowboys kill time between killing time by stealing, whoring, raping, drinking, gambling and lynching. In Fred Stenson's Lightning, the sequel to his Giller nominated The Trade, the violence is still there-one character has her face slashed in half and lives-but tamed in order for Stenson to tell his Canadian Western tale like a morality play. The novel begins in Dillon, Montana in 1881, where the main character, ...
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Broncho Billy and the Essanay Film Company
by David Kiehn

Farwell Books $40.89 Hardcover
ISBN: 0972922652
Book Review
A Review of: Broncho Billy and the Essanay Film Company
by James Roots
The first-ever American feature film was a Western called The Great Train Robbery (1903). Although Westerns have been effectively dead at the box-office for 30 years now, they dominated the American cinema from the start, and established the archetypes of the filmed story structure that persist today. Even the Matrix films are Westerns in CGI garb. Three men dominated the Western from its beginnings to nearly the end of the silent era: Gilbert M. Anderson, Tom Mix, and William S. Hart. The first of these is the worthy subject of a new book. ...
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William S. Hart: Projecting the American West
by Ronald L. Davis

University of Oklahoma Press $37.69 Hardcover
ISBN: 0806135581
Book Review
A Review of: William S. Hart: Projecting the American West
by James Roots
The first-ever American feature film was a Western called The Great Train Robbery (1903). Although Westerns have been effectively dead at the box-office for 30 years now, they dominated the American cinema from the start, and established the archetypes of the filmed story structure that persist today. Even the Matrix films are Westerns in CGI garb. Three men dominated the Western from its beginnings to nearly the end of the silent era: Gilbert M. Anderson, Tom Mix, and William S. Hart. The last of these is the worthy subject of a new book. ...
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Ignorant Armies: Sliding Into War in Iraq
by Gwynne Dyer

McClelland & Stewart $19.99 Paperback
ISBN: 0771029772
Book Review
A Review of: Ignorant Armies: Sliding into War in Iraq
by Alexander Craig
Publishing, like war, is a risky business. Dyer wrote this book just before the Second Gulf War began. Fortunately, he's a highly experienced journalist, and the gamble paid off. The final chapter, over a fifth of the book, "How Bad Could It Get?", is speculative, based in part on the assumption Saddam Hussein would be captured early on in the conflict. Even here, however, the reader, playing the Monday morning quarterback, can spot the shakiness of some of the US assumptions, concerning such things as surgical strikes, and clear, precise intelligence. ...
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Mortification
by Robin Robertson

Harper Collins Canada $34.95 Hardcover
ISBN: 0007171374
Book Review
A Review of: Mortification: WritersÆ Stories of their Public Shame
by Matt Sturrock
"The whole enterprise of writing poetry," says Robin Robertson in his introduction to Mortification, “is a de facto folly. These people devote days to single lines and years to preparing each slim collection, and then publish their work into a yawning maw of indifference.” Yes, Mr. Robertson. An irrefragable truth, to be sure, save that “indifference” is quite often the very best outcome a poet can hope for
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Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950-2002
by Paul Buhle

Sterling Publishing Co. Ltd., $41.95 Hardcover
ISBN: 1403961441
Book Review
A Review of: Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television 1950 - 2002
by Christopher Ondaatje
Anyone who reads Paul Buhle and David Wagner's Hide in Plain Sight-the final volume of a trilogy explaining the Hollywood Blacklist and its impact will want to read the first two volumes: Tender Comrades by Paul Buhle and Patrick McGilligan and Radical Hollywood by Buhle and Wagner. This superb encyclopedic volume (the best in my opinion) is as complete a study as there can be of the Hollywood Blacklist and its aftermath, and traces the careers of all the blacklistees after they were literally hounded out of Hollywood. The book also successfully explores the effects the Blacklist had in the art world in America and ...
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Bookseller of Kabul
by Asne Seierstad

H.B. Fenn & Company $26.95 Hardcover
ISBN: 0316726052
Book Review
A Review of: The Bookseller Of Kabul
by Gordon Phinn
Digging up apposite quotes and learned theories on the Middle East, Islam and those brave crusaders for democracy is a less than onerous task these days. Any bookstore or library of even modest means can be relied upon to supply volume after volume of erudite geopolitical analysis. They literally fall from the bulging shelves. Stephen Schwartz will fill you in on the history and insidious significance of the Wahabist movement in Islam; Daniel Pipes will advise on the pernicious influence of militant Islam in mosques under our very noses; Jessica Stern will remind that terrorists come in all the ...
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi

Random House Trade Paperbacks $21 Paperback
ISBN: 081297106X
Book Review
A Review of: Reading Lolita In Tehran
by Gordon Phinn
About twenty years ago, not long before he slipped into the editor's chair at Books in Canada, then contributor Paul Stuewe journeyed west from Toronto to Ontario's Huron County to uncover the outrage behind the headlines: the ideologues of censorship had once again been awakened from their routines and were pressuring local school boards to remove certain books from the shelves of school libraries. Margaret Lawrence's The Diviners was among them. Local worthies bandied about words like blasphemous with monotonous regularity. Decadent modern books were blamed for the rise in the rates of teenage pregnancy and ...
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Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languagues
by Mark Abley

Random House Canada $34.95 Hardcover
ISBN: 0679311017
Book Review
A Review of: Spoken Here: Travels among Threatened Languages
by A. J. Levin
Kivunjo has sixteen genders. Finnish, with its fifteen cases to decline, is among the easiest languages for infants to learn. Chinese has different forms of number. You cannot simply say "five", you must use a different "five" if you are talking about people, horses, bicycles, turnips, napkins, pencils, or guns. Yiddish-speakers have at their disposal myriad words for "fool", each with its own subtle difference in meaning. Those differences-say, between nar, idyot, tippish and schmegegi-may seem negligible to outsiders, but they are nevertheless meaningful. ...
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Speak: A Short History of Languages
by Tore Janson

Oxford University Press UK $29.95 Hardcover
ISBN: 0198299788
Book Review
A Review of: Speak: A Short History of Languages
by A. J. Levin
The Swedish playwright August Strindberg, echoing Voltaire, wrote that the purpose of language is concealment, not exchange of information. But Swedish Academic Tore Janson reveals language in this book, Speak, written for non-linguists-how and why language has developed and diverged, and how language has shaped us, as much as we have shaped it. Rather than discussing the more technical aspects of speech, writing and thought, Janson examines the connection of language to politics, poetry, law, religion and economics. The reader will find answers to such questions as: What was early language like? Why did it ...
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Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from a to Z
by David Sacks

Knopf Canada $39.95 Hardcover
ISBN: 0676974872
Book Review
A Review of: Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z
by A. J. Levin
You may know this Monty Python routine: a woman, her husband, and their daughter are sitting around an English country home discussing whether words like "caribou" and "sausage" are tinny or woody. To a native or at least a very fluent speaker, the sounds of words conjure up a story apart from the words themselves. Just as well, or we'd have no poetry-and Christian Bk's poetry volume Eunoia has shown us that each of the five English vowels has a personality all its own. This is true of consonants as well. If you think about it, "B", "F" and "P" are all silly (bimbo, bum, frou-frou, Flubber, fumble, piffle, ...
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss

Penguin $28 Hardcover
ISBN: 1592400876
Book Review
A Review of: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Michael Kinsella
"Dancing with abandon, turning a tango into a fertility rite." Marshall Pugh, The Chancer Apostrophe, comma, colon, semicolon, question, quotation and exclamation marks, italics, dashes, brackets, ellipsis, hyphens and solidus are all tackled with gusto by Lynne Truss in this showpiece of a book. And in order to sex-up a subject, which at its most basic level is about different kinds of interruption, Truss quotes from Thomas McCormack's book The Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist (1989), arguing that punctuation should "tango the reader ...
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Tests of Time: Essays
by William H. Gass

University of Chicago Press $22.65 Paperback
ISBN: 0226284069
Book Review
A Review of: Tests of Time: Essays
by Jeff Bursey
Near the midpoint of his newest collection of essays, William Gass says that "Words are persuasions poured into the ear, revelations delivered to the reading eye." There is a perhaps unconscious allusion to the poisoning of Hamlet's father here. That words can be toxic recalls the preface to the first section: "It will surprise no one to learn that I much prefer my own bile and bad nature to theirs." On the acknowledgements page Gass advises, "Each piece has suffered second thoughts, had cuts restored, tactlessness and injudiciousness rejoined, caution, like a scoutmaster's hat, once more thrown to the ...
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Director's Cut
by David Solway

Porcupine's Quill $19.95 Paperback
ISBN: 0889842728
Book Review
A Review of: DirectorÆs Cut
by Steven Laird
"If literature is not a responsible activity, then action is the only course." "I believe in culture as form not spirit." Both of these quotes are from Yukio Mishima, the Japanese novelist who in despair over his nation's postwar loss of traditional culture, tried to incite a military coup. It failed, and he committed ritual suicide. Although it's an unfortunate association to make-few writers would want to be linked with an imperialist and fanatic like Mishima-these two quotes seem to provide a good framework for David Solway's recent books, Director's Cut (essays on poetry), and Franklin's Passage (poetry). He ...
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Franklin's Passage
by David Solway

McGill-Queens University Press $16.95 Paperback
ISBN: 0773526838
Book Review
A Review of: FranklinÆs Passage
by Steven Laird
David Solway is often considered an artifact of an old Empire who, like some samurai in postwar Japan, covers his head with a white fan when obliged to walk under electric power lines as a protest against the abomination. His point is simple: he longs for, and in rare moments finds, a poetry that, to borrow from Louis Dudek, remains "an awakening/A pleasure in the morning light" a poetry that redeems debased words "to give back those old whores their virginity." As Solway writes, "it is possible [in our poetry] to speak candidly, engage the reader directly and at the same time lace up a poem with ...
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W.B. Yeats: A Life, Volume 2: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939
by Roy Foster

Oxford University Press UK $64 Hardcover
ISBN: 0198184654
Book Review
A Review of: W.B. Yeats: A Life II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939
by Keith Garebian
Thinking that biography was inevitable and important, William Butler Yeats assiduously revised or rearranged his autobiographies, memoirs, and subsequent commentaries, settling scores with antagonists in the later part of his life, and ensuring that the importance of his own life would not be lost on future generations. As his latest biographer, R.F. Foster, reveals: "He constantly instructed his collaborator Augusta Gregory about the importance of the way their lives would be interpreted for the history of their times, and of their country." But a problem for a modern biographer is how to deal ...
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Other Sorrows, Other Joys: The Marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and William Blake
by Janet Warner

H.B. Fenn & Company $35.95 Hardcover
ISBN: 031231440X
Book Review
A Review of: Other Sorrows, Other Joys: The marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and William Blake
by Todd Swift
Almost exactly two hundred years ago (in January 1804) William Blake was before a judge, charged with Sedition and Assault. It is curious that this trial, which would have seemed such a dramatic turn of events in his own life, no longer forms a main part of this visionary poet's familiar biographical arc. Indeed, when one does think of William Blake these days, it may be to ponder how a man could go from being under- (even un) estimated while alive, to over-lionized more than a century after his death (in the 1960s), to being canonized but ignored in the first days of the 21st century. ...
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Book Review
A Review of: Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
by Fraser Bell
Elizabeth Tudor and Marie Stuart. The one was to become known as Gloriana, Good Queen Bess; the other was to metamorphise into the stuff of legend and ballads and bittersweet folk-memory. Elizabeth's name became synonomous with an age-the age of Shakespeare and Burbage, Raleigh and Drake; the defeat of Philip II's Armada. The ill-omened Stuart name is forever linked to regicide, a Pretender in exile; the white rose of the Jacobites-a lost cause for which romantic young men threw away their lives at Aughrim, the Boyne, Culloden Moor. While Jane Dunn places her two protagonists against the historical ...
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Who Killed the Canadian Military?
by J.L. Granatstein

Harper Collins Canada $24.95 Hardcover
ISBN: 0002006758
Book Review
A Review of: Who Killed the Canadian Military?
by Nathan Greenfield
Jack Granatstein's Who Killed the Canadian Military? is more than a history of the decline and rustout of a military that as late as 1966 boasted 3,826 aircraft (including cutting-edge Sea King helicopters) as opposed to today's 328 aircraft-including those same Sea Kings and CF-18 fighters whose avionics are a generation out of date; the same can be said of the army and navy. Granatstein's book is a convincing analysis of Canada's embrace of a delusional foreign policy that equates knee jerk anti-Americanism with sovereignty and forgets that in a Hobbesian world of international relations, "power still comes ...
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The Dead One Touched Me From the Past
by Arthur Seamans

Breakwater Books Limited $18.95 Paperback
ISBN: 1550811940
Book Review
A Review of: The Dead One Touched Me From The Past: A Walk With Writers Through The Centuries
by Shane Neilson
Art Seamans is professor emeritus of English Literature at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. He is also the author of the terribly-titled The Dead One Touched Me From The Past, his attempt at hybridising travel literature and bio-criticism. Seamans's book is the product of transcribing his own recently undertaken visits to the literary haunts of John Keats, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Carlyle, William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold, Robbie Burns, Alfred Lord Tennyson, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Perce Bysse Shelley, Lord Byron, E.J. Pratt, Theodore Drieser, and, strangely, E. J. Pratt. ...
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Scarecrow
by Mark Callanan

Creative Book Publishing $18.81 Paperback
ISBN: 1894294688
Book Review
A Review of: Scarecrow
by Zach Wells
I know, I know: Keats died at 26 and Rimbaud composed "Le bateau ivre" at 16. Still, it bears mentioning: Mark Callanan's Scarecrow is a remarkable achievement for a 24-year-old poet. One of the book's chief virtues is its combination of range and focus. Callanan covers a broad spectrum of subjects in these poems, employing techniques ranging from spare, Asian-inspired imagistic meditation to stentorian, long-lined bardic declamation. A fine example of the former is in the title poem, brief enough to quote in full: A gull crucified ...
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So Rarely in Our Skins
by Robert Moore

University Of Toronto Press $14.95 Paperback
ISBN: 1896239897
Book Review
A Review of: So Rarely in Our Skins
by Zach Wells
Robert Moore's So Rarely in Our Skins is a postmodern grab bag. In this collection, we find whimsical meditations; irreverent ekphrasis; somber pieces about death and divorce; a jazz haiku; surreal philosophizing in prose; re-imaginings of classical mythology; dramatic monologues delivered by famous fictional characters-I'm sure I've left much out, but you get the picture. His poems are allusive, drawing references not only from literary texts and Greek myths, but also from the spheres of visual art and 20th Century popular culture. Not surprisingly, given this mix, and given the fact that Moore is ...
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