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{"id":6815267094587,"title":"The Waking Comes Late","handle":"the-waking-comes-late","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2016 Governor General's Literary Award Winner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2017 Raymond Souster Award Finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGovernor General’s Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton returns with a collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us. The poet challenges the boundaries of sleep and even death in these meditations on what lies just beneath the surface of contemporary life. These are poems that trouble over the idea of failure even as they continually recommit to the present moment. This is fierce music performed in a minor key.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T12:06:57-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T09:48:57-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Poetry","By (author) Heighton Steven","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2016-04-09"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40209203462203,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000936","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The Waking Comes Late - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487000936","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d9172809-3128-437e-96d6-e80663f38148.jpg?v=1655698696"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d9172809-3128-437e-96d6-e80663f38148.jpg?v=1655698696","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22245176574011,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"width":396,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d9172809-3128-437e-96d6-e80663f38148.jpg?v=1655698696"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d9172809-3128-437e-96d6-e80663f38148.jpg?v=1655698696","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2016 Governor General's Literary Award Winner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2017 Raymond Souster Award Finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGovernor General’s Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton returns with a collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us. The poet challenges the boundaries of sleep and even death in these meditations on what lies just beneath the surface of contemporary life. These are poems that trouble over the idea of failure even as they continually recommit to the present moment. This is fierce music performed in a minor key.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Waking Comes Late
A poetry collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us.
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Dirty Feet
A compelling novel that tells the story of one man's journey to retrace the steps of the mysterious, nomadic father who abandoned him years earlier.
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The Family Clause
From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.
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You Are Not What We Expected
This collection is a portrait of a Jewish community and the secular and religious families who inhabit it and the tensions that exist there.
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Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein
In 1966 Margaret Atwood and Charles Pachter teamed up to create Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein — now a unique piece of Canadian cultural history.
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Full of invigorating and challenging literary essays, interviews, memoirs, travelogues, belles letters, and unusual musings.
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Easy to Like
A bitingly hilarious satire of the making of wine, television, and taste from one of Canada’s most accomplished comic writers.
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City of Neighbors
The fourth book in the ThinkCities series explores how people all over the world are working together to make their neighborhoods great.
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A stunning debut novel about the legacies of abuse, redemption, and the strength of the human spirit, set in South Africa over two centuries.
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Anxious and Hairy
A quirky and revealing exploration of the tangled science, history, and culture of human hair.
