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Poetrykipocihkân: New and Selected PoemsGregory Scofield • Nightwood EditionsThe first anthology of urban Aboriginal songs by Gregory Scofield is a retrospective of the award-winningpoet’s pivotal work to date. The word kipocihkân is Cree slang for someone who is mute or unable to speak.Charted in this book is Scofield’s journey out of that silence to become one of the most powerful voices ofour time.Gregory Scofield is one of Canada’s leading Aboriginal writers, whose numerous collections of poetryhave earned him both a national and international audience. He is known for his unique and dynamicreading style that blends oral storytelling, song, spoken word, and the Cree language.Key words: Canadian poetry, Indigenous identities, Songs, Urban identity, Queer/LGBTI,Colonization & decolonizationISBN-13: 9780889712287paperback / 144 pp6 x 9 / $17.95May 2009Little HungerPhilip Kevin Paul • Nightwood EditionsPhilip Kevin Paul’s first book, Taking the Names Down from the Hill won the 2004 Dorothy Livesay Awardfor Poetry. In Little Hunger, his second book for the WSÁ,NEC (Saanich) Nation of Vancouver Island,Paul continues to draw upon the rich oral culture and traditions of his people.From the eye of a whale rising from the deep, to an albino pigeon being nursed back to health, Paul’s workaddresses nature, family, and traditions that get passed on from generation to generation.Philip Kevin Paul is a member of the WSÁ,NEC Nation from the Saanich Peninsula on VancouverIsland. Paul has worked with the University of Victoria’s linguistics department to ensure the preservationof the SENCOTEN language.Key words: Canadian poetry, Indigenous identities, Oral history & narrative, Animals in literatureISBN-13: 9780889712201paperback / 96 pp5.25 x 7.5 / $16.95November 2008Tender ButtonsGertrude Stein • Introduction by Steve McCafferyBookThugA seminal text in the history of poetry and poetics, Tender Buttons was originally published in 1914 and isconsidered one of the great Modern experiments in verse. At one time or another it has been thought ofas a masterpiece of Cubism, a modernist triumph, a spectacular failure, a collection of confusing gibberish,and an intentional hoax. Despite the fact that it was written by an ex-pat American, the text of TenderButtons has had massive influence on Canadian poetry and poetics for nearly three quarters of a century.BookThug is pleased to produce the first Canadian Edition of this important text, with an introduction bySteve McCaffery, who places Stein’s text within a Canadian tradition of poetry and poetics.Gertrude Stein was born in 1874 and died in 1946. An American writer who spent most of her life inFrance, she was a catalyst in the development of modern literature and art. Stein was the author of morethan twenty-five books of experimental writing, many of which were self-published. Tender Buttons was hersecond published work, and set the foundation for not only her own oeuvre, but for generations of writersto come. She never visited Canada.Key words: Long poem, Prose poem, Modernism, Cubism, Poetry & poeticsISBN-13: 9781897388259paperback / 90 pp5 x 7.5 / $15.00October 2008Literary Press Group / Congress 2013 9