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PoetryMonkey RanchJulie Bruck • Brick BooksMonkey Ranch by Julie Bruck leaps about the ordinary world with a deft detachment and flexible artistry—guiding us with its offbeat, caring, and companionable sensibility.“‘There’s enough light to see by,’ says Julie Bruck, even though the children turn their eyes away. Thishumane voice, quirky and patient, will see you through a world stripped of miracles.” —GG jury citationWinner of the 2012 Governor General’s Award for Poetry.Julie Bruck is the author of two previous books, both with Brick: The End of Travel (1999), and TheWoman Downstairs (1993). A Montreal native, she lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter.Monkey Ranch is her third poetry collection.Key words: Canadian poetry, Globalization, FamilyISBN-13: 9781926829746paperback / 88 pp6 x 9 / $19.00March 2012I see my love more clearly from a distanceNora Gould • Brick BooksUnromantic poems examining life, love, illness, and death on a ranch on the hard grass prairie. In NoraGould’s one-of-a-kind debut, the Prairie itself is a central character: muse, mythic persona, the place ofdeepest solace, and of deepest questioning.Winner of the 2013 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, shortlisted for the 2013 GeraldLampert Award and the Stephen G. Stephansson Award for Poetry.Nora Gould writes from east central Alberta where she ranches with her family and volunteers in wildliferehabilitation with the Medicine River Wildlife Centre. In 2009 Nora Gould won the Banff Centre BlissCarman Poetry Award.Key words: Canadian poetry, Nature writing, Eco-criticism, Regional identity – prairies,Animals in literatureISBN-13: 9781926829753paperback / 112 pp6 x 9 / $19.00March 2012PanopticonSteve McCaffery • BookThugTaking its inspiration from Jeremy Bentham’s “Panopticon Papers,” Panopticon shatters all omnivison ina tour de force of formal innovation, theoretical comment, and narrative critique. In Panopticon narrativestutters, repeats itself, sequence is deranged and complicated by a multi-media presence on the pageof grids, film bands and acoustic channels. On its first appearance Charles Bernstein hailed the bookas “perhaps the exemplary ‘antiabsorptive work’” and William McPheron claimed its first appearance as“an extraordinary act of revolution and charity.”Originally published in 1984 and is extremely hard to find. This new edition has a new introduction andhas been completely revised by the author.Steve McCaffery has been twice nominated for the Governor General’s Award and is the author of overthirty-five books and chapbooks of poetry and criticism. A long-time resident of Toronto, he is now DavidGray Professor of Poetry and Letters at the University at Buffalo.Key words: Canadian poetry, Post-structuralism, Narrative critique, Literary studiesISBN-13: 9781897388914paperback / 140 pp5.5 x 8.25 / $18.00October 2011Literary Press Group / Congress 2013 7