Fall/Winter 2009
BuschekBooks
Frontlist Poetry
The Horse Knows the Way
Dave Margoshes
In The Horse Knows the Way, award-winning author Dave
Margoshes transforms memory as he (re)imagines childhood and
plunders the everyday for moments of transcendence:
So cold your face stings, your gloved hands
numb in the heartless sun and you wonder
how the chicadees can open their mouths
to sing without freezing their throats….
(“The hunger”)
This is a moveable feast of sensual detail, poetry that challenges
the reader to awaken and partake:
…the curtains
over the east windows become wings
and the walls give way to the insistence
of sun, liquefying, the skin of morning burning
from your eyes….
(“Morning in the Retreat House”)
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Dave Margoshes is a poet and fiction writer who lives in Regina.
His stories and poems are widely published in literary magazines
and anthologies throughout North America, including six times
in the Best Canadian Stories volumes, and he’s published over a
dozen books; the most recent, Bix’s Trumpet and Other Stories,
won two prizes at the 2007 Saskatchewan Book Awards, including
Book of the Year. Margoshes has won a number of other prizes,
including the Stephen Leacock Prize for Poetry. He was writer
in residence in Saskatoon in 2001-02 and Winnipeg in 1995-96. A
former journalist, he practiced his trade in Calgary, Vancouver
and a number of American cities, including New York, Chicago
and San Francisco.
October 2009
978-1-894543-57-6
$17.50 CAD/$17.50 USD
5.5 x 8.5 / paper / 120 pages
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Aide-Mémoire by Ruth Roach Pierson
978-1-894543-43-9
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Frontlist Poetry
The Hundred Cuts:
Sitting Bull and the Major
Colin Morton
1877. An international diplomatic crisis faces the new Dominion of
Canada. The celebrated and reviled warrior chief Sitting Bull has
crossed the 49th parallel ahead of pursuing U.S. Army troops. Camped
near Wood Mountain just north of the border, he asks for asylum
in Canada for himself and thousands of his Sioux and Cheyenne
followers.
For Major James (Bob) Walsh, the North West Mounted Police officer
responsible for peace, order and the semblance of government across
a vast area of the northern plains, life has just become much more
complicated.
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In a series of scenes and monologues representing the many sides in
this life-and-death confrontation, Colin Morton casts new light on
a past whose consequences still demand attention. History, tragedy,
poetry, story-telling—The Hundred Cuts: Sitting Bull and the Major
reminds readers that we are all implicated in history, that the past is not
gone. It is part of us.
October 2009
978-1-894543-55-2
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6 x 9 / paper / 94 pages
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So it is true what our fathers told us.
The buffalo is our only friend.
We are wrong to rely on any other.
Born in Toronto, Colin Morton grew up in Alberta where he completed
an MA in English in 1979. He works as a teacher, editor, and writer
in many media and has performed and recorded his poetry with First
Draft and other music poetry groups, as well as in the animated film
Primiti Too Taa. Also a novelist, he has been writer-in-residence at
Concordia College in Minnesota (1995-96) and at Connecticut College
(1997). Morton has won numerous awards including the Archibald
Lampman Award for Poetry for Coastlines of the Archipelago (BuschekBooks 2000). Colin Morton lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Coastlines of the Archipelago
by Colin Morton
1-894543-00-9
$14.95 CAD/ $14.95 USD
Frontlist Poetry
Go to the Pine
Poetry in Japanese styles
Izak Bouwer and Angela Sumegi
Go to the Pine features mainly poetry in Japanese styles (tanka, haiku, renga) and
a CD of haiga, which are combinations of poetry and the visual arts. The book
closes with two essays which provide a theoretical framework that complements the
poetry. The text shows a unique Buddhist perspective that represents the special interests of the authors: Rinzai Zen Buddhism for Izak Bouwer, the Tibetan Dzogchen
for Angela Sumegi. These two disciplines are very close to each other in that they
are both founded on the desire to see directly into the nature of the mind.
Izak Bouwer is a retired mathematics professor who became interested in Zen in the
early sixties soon after his arrival in Canada from South Africa. He has a number of
research papers in mathematics to his credit as well as an article on William Blake’s
"The Mental Traveller" that was published in the Blake Quarterly.
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November 2009
978-1-894543-56-9
$17.50 CAD/$17.50 USB
6 x 9 / paper / 92 pages plus CD
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0969990464
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Angela Sumegi is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion at Carleton
University in Ottawa. She and her family lived in South India for five years, where
she became interested in Tibetan Nyingma as practiced at the Namdrolling Monastery in Bylakuppe. She heads a Palyul Centre in Ottawa, and is the founder and
director of a Canadian charity that supports Tibetan refugee children in India. She
has published her doctoral thesis as Dream Worlds of Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism, SUNY Press, 2008.
From Tokyo in Japan, Museki Abe, award-winning founder (in 1998) of the photohaiku website Photo-Haiku Gallery (terminated in 2009), provided the impetus to
the authors to collaborate in the production of haiga.
Frontlist Poetry
The Craving of Knives
Blaine Marchand
Blaine Marchand’s The Craving of Knives is the work of a mature and worldly
writer. It is the poetry of a man who asks difficult questions, meets his fears and
moves beyond a obscurant life to one of transformation. In doing so he confronts
the spectre of loss:
The birds, like sparks, spiral
beyond the cremation of darkness;
they drop the fruit,
hearts, impaled by blades of grass.
(“Grosbeaks”)
Poetry
November 2009
978-1-894543-58-3
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6 x 9 / paper / 84 pages
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Nestled between acknowledgements of mortality and departure is a glimpse of
someone profoundly alive:
Your hands are balm, sleek
over my thighs, curative as a prayer,
But I crave more—
(“Four Fetishes”)
It is this duality and the refusal to shrink from it that marks this collection. Blaine
Marchand’s intelligent, sensual poetry dares the reader to be equally courageous.
Blaine Marchand is an Ottawa writer who has published five books of poetry, a
young adult novel and a work of non-fiction. His books include After the Fact,
Open Fires, A Garden Enclosed, Bodily Presence, African Journey and Aperture.
His work has appeared in magazines and anthlogies in Canada and the US. He
has won several literary awards including the Archibald Lampman Award (for A
Garden Enclosed), and his poem “The Craving of Knives,” took second place in the
National Poetry Contest in 1990. He was President of the League of Canadian Poets
from 1992-94 and was a co-founder of Sparks Magazine and Ottawa Independent
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978-1-894543-46-0
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1894543297 Blodgett Practices of Eternity $15.00
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1894543343 Penny My Chimera $15.00
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1894543068 Roy People Leaving $14.95
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1894543289 Smith Spring Garland $15.00
1894543270 Stānescu Occupational Sickness $15.00
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1894543173 Taylor Moriah: a quartet $15.00
0969990413 Tranströmer For the Living and the Dead $12.95
1894543386 Desclouds Jackie, Luther and I $15.00
1894543033 Donovan As for the Canadians $26.95
0920953603 Donovan Daisy Circus $14.95
0921556047 Donovan Dark Jewels $10.95
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1894543181 van der Pol Invisible Lines $15.00
189454322X Vulpe Blue Tile $15.00
1894543378 Flamand/Christensen Lithochronos $15.00
1894543114 Frank Cobalt Moon Embrace $15.00
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1894543238 Zetlin The Thing With Feathers $14.95
0969990480 Zolf Her absence this wanderer $14.95
0969990448 Warland What Holds Us Here $16.95
1894543076 Wiesenthal Instruments of Surrender $14.95
1894543211 Garebian Frida: Paint Me as a Volcano $15.00
096999043X Gleed One of the Chosen $14.95
1894543017 Graham Blood Memory $14.95
0969990456 Goliger, et al Quintet $14.95
9781894543415 Grace Love & Tribal Baseball $15.00
1894543106 Grünzweig Midsummer Cut $15.00
9781894543491 Grünzweig Glass Voices $17.50
1894543092 Hart Dream China $14.95
1894543157 Hart Dream Salvage $15.00
189454319X Isaac Past, Present: Tense $15.00
1894543262 Levenson / Cameron (eds) Soundings $15.00
1894543025 Levenson The Bridge $15.00
9781894543460 Marchand Aperture $17.50
1894543327 McInnis First Fire $15.00
1894543319 Moran / Mulligan (eds) 25 Years of Tree $15.00
1894543009 Morton Coastlines of the Archipelago $14.95
9781894543422 Murphy Shattered Fanatics $15.00
9781894543392 Nicolas Tomato Sauce Love $15.00
1894543041 Page / Stratford And Once More Saw the Stars
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