assembly press ca (38 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. A radically liberating collection of essays, ideas and approaches to writing and teaching poetryDo It Wrong is a short, snappy series of provocations and suggestions designed to help poets think outside the box and foster creativity.It's a permission slip to take a path others reject, to do the counter-intuitive thing, to embrace the weird.It's a guidebook designed to bring poets together, to question our assumptions, and to move past the "business as usual" educational models into the new, the strange, and the "wrong."And it's a playful, purposeful contribution toward the building of stronger, more resilient writing communities.For readers of Beth Pickens's Make Your Art No Matter What and Austin Kleon's Steal Like an Artist, Derek Beaulieu distills 20 years of experience teaching creative writing into a joyfully mischievous manifesto on how to write and teach poetry with meaning.

Paperback. Condition: New. The Twin Bill Best Baseball Nonfiction Book of 2025Roger Angell meets Hanif Abdurraqib meets Bull Durham in this sharp new collection of baseball writing by Andrew ForbesBaseball is a sport, a pastime, an obsession, a dream-and for some, it's also a day job. A poetic survey of baseball's rich history, Field Work shines a light on the people who make the game happen, from major-league stars and little-league coaches to gamblers, ballpark operators, and minor leaguers forging lives outside the dugout.With sharp-eyed observations and beautiful digressions, these essays portray the complex relationship between work and play-both on and off the field-to demonstrate how baseball is more than just a game.

Paperback. Condition: New. A lingering, long-haul collection of writing about sailing for readers of Julietta Singh and Kyo Maclear.In Relative to Wind, Phoebe Wang delivers a poetic rendering of her decade-long journey of learning to sail and a deep dive into what it means to be a newcomer to an old tradition. From working along­side crewmates in tempestuous conditions to becoming an avid racer and organizer to drafting a wistful love letter to a Wayfarer dinghy-while examining the loose tether between sailing and a creative life-Wang delivers a book for sailors and would-be sailors that is thoughtful and surprising at every tack."A thoughtful, illuminating look at life away from land."-Kirkus.

Paperback. Condition: New. Winner of the 2025 Hamilton Literary Award for FictionA new collection of stories by Giller Prize finalist Gary Barwin that puts the fab in fabulist.Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction, 1984-2024 couples brand new and uncollected stories with selections of the most playful and ambitious of Barwin's previous collections, including Cruelty to Fabulous Animals, Big Red Baby, Doctor Weep and Other Strange Teeth, and I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457.Barwin's prose kicks against short fiction's more traditional forms: these are pieces that flirt with poetry and playwriting. Whole stories-and worlds-are packed into single compact paragraphs. There are narrators and fleas and lists and imperatives and Hitler's moustache and radiant happiness.Known as a "whiz-bang storyteller" who can deliver magical, dream-like sequences and truisms about the human condition in the same paragraph, Barwin's trademark brilliance, wit, and originality are on display in this can't-miss collection of short fiction.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Winner of the 2026 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book PrizePoems that retrace unconscious lines of thought and flight to write a new history of the tar sandsTracing words the way a tracker moves across land,Goose collects hand-copied details from Northland Trails, abook of self-illustrated short stories, poems, and essays about theAthabasca region authored by "father of the tar sands" S. C. Ells.At turns cheeky, sharp-witted, and grave, Melanie Dennis Unrau'spoems explore extraction and the relationship between humans, non-humans, and the land, resulting in an act of irreverent, deconstructiveliterary criticism.

Paperback. Condition: New. A gorgeous, Gothic, Romany coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the 1980s Southern Ontario tobacco belt-with a dash of magic realism. Longing for glamour and riches and freedom, Zelda is a young woman who chafes against her Romany identity and her family's poverty. Everything changes when she's lured away from working alongside her mother and aunts and other migrant workers in the tobacco fields and is hired as an assistant and good luck charm to the charismatic Trixie Tormentine. What starts out as a summer of ease and access to the unfettered wealth of the Tormentines-Trixie's husband Jack owns the tobacco farm that employs Zelda's family and friends-unspools into dangerous displays of power and manipulation. One of the Romany family's puppets, grandmother Puri Dai, acts as Zelda's confidante and mentor, and warns her about the devil of the tobacco fields, a harbinger of destruction. As Zelda struggles with her simmering feelings toward the Tormentines, the devil appears to her one night in a motel parking lot. Can Puri Dai's love pull Zelda back from the brink and into a new future? The fate of her family depends on it.

Paperback. Condition: New. Cultivate a state of mind to help your writing flow with acclaimed writing instructor and Giller Prize finalist Sarah Selecky.Celebrated author Sarah Selecky brings the spirit of her popular online writing school to the page in Story Is a State of Mind. Short, personable essays deliver gentle coaching, practical advice, and heartfelt encouragement, alongside writing exercises and meditations that offer abundant opportunities to build awareness, confidence, and technique.Designed for authors seeking support on individual projects or their practice as a whole, this book is overflowing with tips and tools to develop and support creative curiosity and whole-minded writing. Pair it with Sarah Selecky's Story Is a State of Mind Deck of 50 writing prompts for maximum inspiration!"A brilliant, soulful, transformative guide to the craft of writing.-Theresa Reed, author of The Cards You're Dealt.

Paperback. Condition: New. Shortlisted for the 2025 Nelson Ball PrizeTypography broken down into its most basic (and beautiful) forms to reveal the inherent voice within each shape.Inherent is a collection of concrete poems that uses poetic tools to reduce words and letters and characters to their structural components, celebrating the shapes we're used to taking for granted. Produced by physically scraping each letter onto the page using Letraset sheets-a process of tangible transference that requires irrevocable choice-this is a poetry of format that plays with aspects of form and design to demonstrate each typeface's individual poetic stance.Sitting somewhere between Hanjorg Mayer's Futura and Johanna Drucker's concrete poetics, with a hint of punk DIY zine culture and a heavy study of typographic graphic design, Inherent moves with palindromic rotational symmetry, arrays of potential landscapes, and alien languages where the Roman alphabet goes supernova into brilliant new forms."These works shimmer, shake, and vibrate with excitement."-Johanna Drucker, author of Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Presentand Diagrammatic Writing??????

Paperback. Condition: New. The Twin Bill Best Baseball Nonfiction Book of 2025Roger Angell meets Hanif Abdurraqib meets Bull Durham in this sharp new collection of baseball writing by Andrew ForbesBaseball is a sport, a pastime, an obsession, a dream-and for some, it's also a day job. A poetic survey of baseball's rich history, Field Work shines a light on the people who make the game happen, from major-league stars and little-league coaches to gamblers, ballpark operators, and minor leaguers forging lives outside the dugout.With sharp-eyed observations and beautiful digressions, these essays portray the complex relationship between work and play-both on and off the field-to demonstrate how baseball is more than just a game.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. McLuhan takes up his father Marshall's mantle by marrying communications and religion in this journey through the sensesIn this essay of extraordinary scope and depth, Eric McLuhan explores faith as a form of knowing. He does so against the backdrop of preliterate man's concrete, bodily submersion in the putting on of poetry and drama (the practice of mimesis) and post-literate man's bodiless submersion in electronic communication, in which sender and receiver are everywhere and nowhere at once. In traversing the Aristotelian and Medieval concept of sensus communis, he examines synesthesia as, in effect, its operating system and charts the modern and contemporary mandate to embrace the discarnate. He washes up on the shore of religion as he uncovers a trinity of knowledge, that is, three kinds of sensus communis-the five physical senses, the four intellectual senses of Scripture (historical, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical), and the three theological senses (faith, hope, and charity)-each of the three complete in itself yet interacting with one another. A fascinating odyssey that will dazzle the senses.

Paperback. Condition: New. A radically liberating collection of essays, ideas and approaches to writing and teaching poetryDo It Wrong is a short, snappy series of provocations and suggestions designed to help poets think outside the box and foster creativity.It's a permission slip to take a path others reject, to do the counter-intuitive thing, to embrace the weird.It's a guidebook designed to bring poets together, to question our assumptions, and to move past the "business as usual" educational models into the new, the strange, and the "wrong."And it's a playful, purposeful contribution toward the building of stronger, more resilient writing communities.For readers of Beth Pickens's Make Your Art No Matter What and Austin Kleon's Steal Like an Artist, Derek Beaulieu distills 20 years of experience teaching creative writing into a joyfully mischievous manifesto on how to write and teach poetry with meaning.

Paperback. Condition: New. Poems that retrace unconscious lines of thought and flight to write a new history of the tar sandsTracing words the way a tracker moves across land,Goose collects hand-copied details from Northland Trails, abook of self-illustrated short stories, poems, and essays about theAthabasca region authored by "father of the tar sands" S. C. Ells.At turns cheeky, sharp-witted, and grave, Melanie Dennis Unrau'spoems explore extraction and the relationship between humans, non-humans, and the land, resulting in an act of irreverent, deconstructiveliterary criticism.

Paperback. Condition: New. Cultivate a state of mind to help your writing flow with acclaimed writing instructor and Giller Prize finalist Sarah Selecky.Celebrated author Sarah Selecky brings the spirit of her popular online writing school to the page in Story Is a State of Mind. Short, personable essays deliver gentle coaching, practical advice, and heartfelt encouragement, alongside writing exercises and meditations that offer abundant opportunities to build awareness, confidence, and technique.Designed for authors seeking support on individual projects or their practice as a whole, this book is overflowing with tips and tools to develop and support creative curiosity and whole-minded writing. Pair it with Sarah Selecky's Story Is a State of Mind Deck of 50 writing prompts for maximum inspiration!"A brilliant, soulful, transformative guide to the craft of writing.-Theresa Reed, author of The Cards You're Dealt.

Paperback. Condition: New. A gorgeous, Gothic, Romany coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the 1980s Southern Ontario tobacco belt-with a dash of magic realism. Longing for glamour and riches and freedom, Zelda is a young woman who chafes against her Romany identity and her family's poverty. Everything changes when she's lured away from working alongside her mother and aunts and other migrant workers in the tobacco fields and is hired as an assistant and good luck charm to the charismatic Trixie Tormentine. What starts out as a summer of ease and access to the unfettered wealth of the Tormentines-Trixie's husband Jack owns the tobacco farm that employs Zelda's family and friends-unspools into dangerous displays of power and manipulation. One of the Romany family's puppets, grandmother Puri Dai, acts as Zelda's confidante and mentor, and warns her about the devil of the tobacco fields, a harbinger of destruction. As Zelda struggles with her simmering feelings toward the Tormentines, the devil appears to her one night in a motel parking lot. Can Puri Dai's love pull Zelda back from the brink and into a new future? The fate of her family depends on it.

Paperback. Condition: New. McLuhan takes up his father Marshall's mantle by marrying communications and religion in this journey through the sensesIn this essay of extraordinary scope and depth, Eric McLuhan explores faith as a form of knowing. He does so against the backdrop of preliterate man's concrete, bodily submersion in the putting on of poetry and drama (the practice of mimesis) and post-literate man's bodiless submersion in electronic communication, in which sender and receiver are everywhere and nowhere at once. In traversing the Aristotelian and Medieval concept of sensus communis, he examines synesthesia as, in effect, its operating system and charts the modern and contemporary mandate to embrace the discarnate. He washes up on the shore of religion as he uncovers a trinity of knowledge, that is, three kinds of sensus communis-the five physical senses, the four intellectual senses of Scripture (historical, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical), and the three theological senses (faith, hope, and charity)-each of the three complete in itself yet interacting with one another. A fascinating odyssey that will dazzle the senses.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. A lingering, long-haul collection of writing about sailing for readers of Julietta Singh and Kyo Maclear.In Relative to Wind, Phoebe Wang delivers a poetic rendering of her decade-long journey of learning to sail and a deep dive into what it means to be a newcomer to an old tradition. From working along­side crewmates in tempestuous conditions to becoming an avid racer and organizer to drafting a wistful love letter to a Wayfarer dinghy-while examining the loose tether between sailing and a creative life-Wang delivers a book for sailors and would-be sailors that is thoughtful and surprising at every tack."A thoughtful, illuminating look at life away from land."-Kirkus.

Paperback. Condition: New. A radically liberating collection of essays, ideas and approaches to writing and teaching poetryDo It Wrong is a short, snappy series of provocations and suggestions designed to help poets think outside the box and foster creativity.It's a permission slip to take a path others reject, to do the counter-intuitive thing, to embrace the weird.It's a guidebook designed to bring poets together, to question our assumptions, and to move past the "business as usual" educational models into the new, the strange, and the "wrong."And it's a playful, purposeful contribution toward the building of stronger, more resilient writing communities.For readers of Beth Pickens's Make Your Art No Matter What and Austin Kleon's Steal Like an Artist, Derek Beaulieu distills 20 years of experience teaching creative writing into a joyfully mischievous manifesto on how to write and teach poetry with meaning.

Paperback. Condition: New. The Twin Bill Best Baseball Nonfiction Book of 2025Roger Angell meets Hanif Abdurraqib meets Bull Durham in this sharp new collection of baseball writing by Andrew ForbesBaseball is a sport, a pastime, an obsession, a dream-and for some, it's also a day job. A poetic survey of baseball's rich history, Field Work shines a light on the people who make the game happen, from major-league stars and little-league coaches to gamblers, ballpark operators, and minor leaguers forging lives outside the dugout.With sharp-eyed observations and beautiful digressions, these essays portray the complex relationship between work and play-both on and off the field-to demonstrate how baseball is more than just a game.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Winner of the 2026 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book PrizePoems that retrace unconscious lines of thought and flight to write a new history of the tar sandsTracing words the way a tracker moves across land,Goose collects hand-copied details from Northland Trails, abook of self-illustrated short stories, poems, and essays about theAthabasca region authored by "father of the tar sands" S. C. Ells.At turns cheeky, sharp-witted, and grave, Melanie Dennis Unrau'spoems explore extraction and the relationship between humans, non-humans, and the land, resulting in an act of irreverent, deconstructiveliterary criticism.

Paperback. Condition: New. Cultivate a state of mind to help your writing flow with acclaimed writing instructor and Giller Prize finalist Sarah Selecky.Celebrated author Sarah Selecky brings the spirit of her popular online writing school to the page in Story Is a State of Mind. Short, personable essays deliver gentle coaching, practical advice, and heartfelt encouragement, alongside writing exercises and meditations that offer abundant opportunities to build awareness, confidence, and technique.Designed for authors seeking support on individual projects or their practice as a whole, this book is overflowing with tips and tools to develop and support creative curiosity and whole-minded writing. Pair it with Sarah Selecky's Story Is a State of Mind Deck of 50 writing prompts for maximum inspiration!"A brilliant, soulful, transformative guide to the craft of writing.-Theresa Reed, author of The Cards You're Dealt.

Paperback. Condition: New. A gorgeous, Gothic, Romany coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the 1980s Southern Ontario tobacco belt-with a dash of magic realism. Longing for glamour and riches and freedom, Zelda is a young woman who chafes against her Romany identity and her family's poverty. Everything changes when she's lured away from working alongside her mother and aunts and other migrant workers in the tobacco fields and is hired as an assistant and good luck charm to the charismatic Trixie Tormentine. What starts out as a summer of ease and access to the unfettered wealth of the Tormentines-Trixie's husband Jack owns the tobacco farm that employs Zelda's family and friends-unspools into dangerous displays of power and manipulation. One of the Romany family's puppets, grandmother Puri Dai, acts as Zelda's confidante and mentor, and warns her about the devil of the tobacco fields, a harbinger of destruction. As Zelda struggles with her simmering feelings toward the Tormentines, the devil appears to her one night in a motel parking lot. Can Puri Dai's love pull Zelda back from the brink and into a new future? The fate of her family depends on it.

Paperback. Condition: New. McLuhan takes up his father Marshall's mantle by marrying communications and religion in this journey through the sensesIn this essay of extraordinary scope and depth, Eric McLuhan explores faith as a form of knowing. He does so against the backdrop of preliterate man's concrete, bodily submersion in the putting on of poetry and drama (the practice of mimesis) and post-literate man's bodiless submersion in electronic communication, in which sender and receiver are everywhere and nowhere at once. In traversing the Aristotelian and Medieval concept of sensus communis, he examines synesthesia as, in effect, its operating system and charts the modern and contemporary mandate to embrace the discarnate. He washes up on the shore of religion as he uncovers a trinity of knowledge, that is, three kinds of sensus communis-the five physical senses, the four intellectual senses of Scripture (historical, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical), and the three theological senses (faith, hope, and charity)-each of the three complete in itself yet interacting with one another. A fascinating odyssey that will dazzle the senses.

Paperback. Condition: New. A lingering, long-haul collection of writing about sailing for readers of Julietta Singh and Kyo Maclear.In Relative to Wind, Phoebe Wang delivers a poetic rendering of her decade-long journey of learning to sail and a deep dive into what it means to be a newcomer to an old tradition. From working along­side crewmates in tempestuous conditions to becoming an avid racer and organizer to drafting a wistful love letter to a Wayfarer dinghy-while examining the loose tether between sailing and a creative life-Wang delivers a book for sailors and would-be sailors that is thoughtful and surprising at every tack."A thoughtful, illuminating look at life away from land."-Kirkus.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. A lingering, long-haul collection of writing about sailing for readers of Julietta Singh and Kyo Maclear.In Relative to Wind, Phoebe Wang delivers a poetic rendering of her decade-long journey of learning to sail and a deep dive into what it means to be a newcomer to an old tradition. From working along­side crewmates in tempestuous conditions to becoming an avid racer and organizer to drafting a wistful love letter to a Wayfarer dinghy-while examining the loose tether between sailing and a creative life-Wang delivers a book for sailors and would-be sailors that is thoughtful and surprising at every tack."A thoughtful, illuminating look at life away from land."-Kirkus.

Paperback. Condition: New. A radically liberating collection of essays, ideas and approaches to writing and teaching poetryDo It Wrong is a short, snappy series of provocations and suggestions designed to help poets think outside the box and foster creativity.It's a permission slip to take a path others reject, to do the counter-intuitive thing, to embrace the weird.It's a guidebook designed to bring poets together, to question our assumptions, and to move past the "business as usual" educational models into the new, the strange, and the "wrong."And it's a playful, purposeful contribution toward the building of stronger, more resilient writing communities.For readers of Beth Pickens's Make Your Art No Matter What and Austin Kleon's Steal Like an Artist, Derek Beaulieu distills 20 years of experience teaching creative writing into a joyfully mischievous manifesto on how to write and teach poetry with meaning.