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Outside the Hat

By: Gary Barwin

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In Outside the Hat lies a landscape of CanaDada and SurRielism, populated by dancing medieval woodcuts, Franglais--speaking dogs, sadistic provincial politicians and melodious bison. Including work culled from a plethora of micro-press chapbooks such as Mike Harris Made Me Eat My Dog, The Irridescent Phlegm of Bagpipers Glorious with Flu and The Stars Are a Pale Pox on the Sky's Dark Chicken, this is the definitive Gary Barwin collection: stranger than you (can) think.

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Coach House Books

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1552450309

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9781552450307

The Porcupinity of the Stars

By: Gary Barwin

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The Porcupinity of the Stars

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In this much-anticipated new collection, poet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language.

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Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted

The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy

By: Gary Barwin

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Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted

The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy

By: Gary Barwin

A middle-aged Jewish man who fantasizes about being a cowboy goes on an eccentric quest across Europe after the 1941 Nazi invasion of Lithuania in this wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the bestselling author of Yiddish for Pirates, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Motl is middle-aged, poor, nerdy, Jewish and in desperate need of a shave. Since having his balls shot cleanly off as a youth in WWI, he's lived a quiet life at home in Vilnius with his shrewd and shrewish mom, Gitl, losing himself in the masculine fantasy world of cowboy novels by writers like Karl May--novels equally loved by Hitler, whose troops have just invaded Lithuania and are out to exterminate people like Motl. In his dreams, Motl is a fast-talking, rugged, expert gunslinger capable of dealing with the Nazi threat. But only in his dreams. As friends and neighbours are killed around them, Motl and Gitl escape from Vilnius, saving their own skins. But they immediately risk everything to try rescue relatives they hope are still alive. With death all around him, Motl decides that a Jew's best revenge is not only to live, but to procreate. In order to achieve this, though, he must relocate those most crucial pieces of his anatomy lost to him in a glacier in the Swiss Alps in the previous war. It's an absurd yet life-affirming mission, made even more urgent when he's separated from his mother, and isn't sure whether she's alive or dead. Joining forces, and eventually hearts, with Esther, a Jewish woman whose family has been killed, Motl ventures across Europe, a kaleidoscope of narrow escapes and close encounters with everyone from Himmler, to circus performers, double agents, quislings, fake "Indians" and real ones. Motl at last figures out that he has more connection to the Indigenous characters in western novels than the cowboys. An imaginative and deeply felt exploration of genocide, persecution, colonialism and masculinity--saturated in Gary Barwin's sharp wit and perfect pun-play--Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy is a one-of-a-kind novel of sheer genius.

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Vintage Canada

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0735279543

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9780735279544

Yiddish for Pirates

By: Gary Barwin

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Yiddish for Pirates

By: Gary Barwin

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Literature, a hilarious, swashbuckling yet powerful tale of pirates, buried treasure and a search for the Fountain of Youth, told in the ribald, philosophical voice of a 500-year-old Jewish parrot. Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship's crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot who becomes his near-constant companion. From a present-day Florida nursing home, this wisecracking yet poetic bird guides us through a world of pirate ships, Yiddish jokes and treasure maps. But Inquisition Spain is a dangerous time to be Jewish and Moishe joins a band of hidden Jews trying to preserve some forbidden books. He falls in love with a young woman, Sarah; though they are separated by circumstance, Moishe's wanderings are motivated as much by their connection as by his quest for loot and freedom. When all Jews are expelled from Spain, Moishe travels to the Caribbean with the ambitious Christopher Columbus, a self-made man who loves his creator. Moishe eventually becomes a pirate and seeks revenge on the Spanish while seeking the ultimate booty: the Fountain of Youth. This outstanding New Face of Fiction is filled with Jewish takes on classic pirate tales--fights, prison escapes, and exploits on the high seas--but it's also a tender love story, between Moishe and Sarah, and between Aaron and his "shoulder," Moishe. Rich with puns, colourful language, post-colonial satire and Kabbalistic hijinks, Yiddish for Pirates is also a compelling examination of mortality, memory, identity and persecution from one of this country's most talented writers.

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Random House Canada

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034581553X

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9780345815538

Raising Eyebrows

By: Gary Barwin

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Raising Eyebrows

By: Gary Barwin

The surrealist antics of Gary Barwin will run the predictability of your universe through a particle accelerator. Watch as your right eyebrow turns into you as a child. Watch Jeff connect the mower to the Internet to cut other people's lawns. Hear the sploosh as Barwin drops some extra syllables in Basho's frog pond. Funny, smart and as unexpected as the Spanish Inquisition, Raising Eyebrows is divided into four mind-boggling sections - dirty dogs, my life in the salad spinner, ukiah poems: frogments from the frag pond, and bassoon throng blues. Raising Eyebrows will make you do just that.

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Coach House Books

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1552450945

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9781552450949

The Most Charming Creatures

Poems

By: Gary Barwin

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The Most Charming Creatures

Poems

By: Gary Barwin

With uncanny wit, inventive beauty, and numinous surprise, The Most Charming Creatures explores the contemporary and its language, considering our wonder, sorrow, bewilderment, anxiety, and tenderness. While these poems energize and connect and “turn the paren-/theses inside out so that/we mean everything,” they are also alive to the alluring complicity of language and its duplicity and deceptions. “This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but/while we watch.” A follow-up to the award-winning author’s acclaimed selected poems, this new collection continues Barwin’s examination of the possibilities of the poem: a celebration, a story, an investigation, a riff, a word machine, a parable, a transformation. But what are the “most charming creatures” of the title? In 1862, scientific illustrator Ernst Haeckel termed radiolarians (ancient single-celled organisms with mineral skeletons) “the most charming creatures,” but here Barwin turns the microscope around to consider something just as strange and mysterious: language, our culture, and the self. From microorganisms, onion rings, grief, and Gerard Manley Hopkins to beetles, neoliberalism, sandwiches, Martin Luther, and stand-up comedy, he offers: “it’s a miracle that we’ve survived/it’s a miracle that we’ve survived at all.”

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ECW Press

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177852026X

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9781778520266

Franzlations

The Imaginary Kafka Parables

By: Gary Barwin,Hugh Thomas,Craig Conley

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Franzlations

The Imaginary Kafka Parables

By: Gary Barwin,Hugh Thomas,Craig Conley

Franzlations takes the parables and aphorisms of Kafka as a starting point, and steps a few places to the left in order to reinvent them. Sometimes this means walking off a cliff and into the empty air. (Don't look down!) Sometimes this means keeping the cage and replacing the bird. For of course, Kafka's writing is a rich source of ideas, play, structure, and wit. It looks like the real world, but in the way the bootstrap that one pulls oneself up with looks like a real bootstrap. It is said that if Kafka had not existed, Kafka would have had to invent him. But since he did exist, Franzlations has invented an imaginary Kafka so that he could help create the Kafka that was already there. Perhaps it was that. Kafka who helped create these imaginary parables. This, itself, is a parable. A man once said, "If you only followed the parables, you yourselves would become parables and with that rid yourself of all your daily cares." Another replied, "I bet that is also a parable." The first said: "You have won." The second said: "But unfortunately only in parable." The first said: "No, in reality: in parable you have lost." –Franz Kafka

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New Star Books

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1554200628

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Outside the Hat

By: Gary Barwin

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Outside the Hat

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Raising Eyebrows

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Yiddish for Pirates

A Novel

By: Gary Barwin

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Yiddish for Pirates

A Novel

By: Gary Barwin

In the years around 1492, Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy, leaves home to join a ship's crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot who becomes his near-constant companion. But Inquisition Spain is a dangerous time to be Jewish and Moishe joins a band of hidden Jews trying to preserve some forbidden books. He falls in love with a young woman, Sarah; though they are separated by circumstance, Moishe's wanderings are motivated as much by their connection as by his quest for loot and freedom. When all Jews are expelled from Spain, Moishe travels to the Caribbean with the ambitious Christopher Columbus, a self-made man who loves his creator. Moishe eventually becomes a pirate and seeks revenge on the Spanish while seeking the ultimate booty: the Fountain of Youth. Bestseller. Winner of the 2017 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. 2016.

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0345815513

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The Porcupinity of the Stars

By: Gary Barwin

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The Porcupinity of the Stars

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In this much-anticipated new collection, poet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language.

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Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted

The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy

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The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy

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Vintage Canada

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0735279543

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Seeing Stars

By: Gary Barwin

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Seeing Stars

By: Gary Barwin

A young man embarks on a search for his father through the Internet, with no clues and no help from his overweight bed-ridden mother.

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Fitzhenry & Whiteside

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0773762272

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9780773762275

The Racing Worm Brothers

By: Gary Barwin

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The Racing Worm Brothers

By: Gary Barwin

Two boys race their pet worms, but lose track of their squirmy buddies. One day they find Worm and Pinky on the way to school, so they take them along" Cf. Our choice, 1998-1999.

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Microsoft Windows XP

Introductory Concepts and Techniques

By: Gary B. Shelly,Thomas J. Cashman,Steven G. Forsythe

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Microsoft Windows XP

Introductory Concepts and Techniques

By: Gary B. Shelly,Thomas J. Cashman,Steven G. Forsythe

Part of the highly successful Shelly Cashman Series, this text offers a clear step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach to learning Microsoft Windows XP. Three projects provide coverage of Microsoft Windows XP fundamentals.

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0789564181

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9780789564184

Microsoft Windows 2000

Brief Concepts and Techniques

By: Gary B. Shelly,Thomas J. Cashman,Steven G. Forsythe

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Microsoft Windows 2000

Brief Concepts and Techniques

By: Gary B. Shelly,Thomas J. Cashman,Steven G. Forsythe

Part of the highly successful Shelly Cashman Series, this text offers a clear step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach to learning Microsoft Windows 2000. One project provides coverage of Microsoft Windows 2000 fundamentals.

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Cengage Learning

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078955982X

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9780789559821

Microsoft Windows 98

Essential Concepts and Techniques

By: Gary B. Shelly,Thomas J. Cashman,Steven G. Forsythe

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Microsoft Windows 98

Essential Concepts and Techniques

By: Gary B. Shelly,Thomas J. Cashman,Steven G. Forsythe

Part of the highly successful Shelly Cashman Series, this text offers a clear screen-by-screen, step-by-step approach to learning Microsoft Windows 98.

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0789542978

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Microsoft Works 2000

Complete Concepts and Techniques

By: Gary B. Shelly

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Microsoft Works 2000

Complete Concepts and Techniques

By: Gary B. Shelly

Part of the highly successful Shelly Cashman Series, this text offers a clear step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach to learning Microsoft Works 2000. Ten projects provide coverage of introductory and advanced skills.

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0789559900

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9780789559906

Australia

By: Peter Hinze,Paul Chadwick,Fiona Gillies,Gary Walsh,Carol Stuart,Anne Biging,Marc Marger,Andrea Brown,Ulf Marquardt,Wolfgang Koch,Uwe Seidel,Lesley Darlington

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Australia

By: Peter Hinze,Paul Chadwick,Fiona Gillies,Gary Walsh,Carol Stuart,Anne Biging,Marc Marger,Andrea Brown,Ulf Marquardt,Wolfgang Koch,Uwe Seidel,Lesley Darlington

The writing is superb... each (Nelles) guide is delightfully comprehensive, a solid source of reliable information for the traveller... All travel guides claim to be comprehensive, but we found Nelles Guides superior". -- Arizona Senior World "(The Nelles Guides are) . . . beautifully photographed . . . the maps are better than Insight's, and practical information is integrated with the text, not relegated to the end". -- National Geographic Traveller -- Quality writing, often by native writers -- Detailed sections on the history, culture, special features and festivals -- Accommodations, restaurant guides, sights to see, places to shop, how to get around

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Nelles Verlag

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3886180514

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9783886180516

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5

Introductory Concepts and Techniques

By: Gary B. Shelly,Thomas J. Cashman,Steven G. Forsythe

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 5

Introductory Concepts and Techniques

By: Gary B. Shelly,Thomas J. Cashman,Steven G. Forsythe

Part of the highly successful Shelly Cashman Series, this text offers a clear, step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach to learning the basics of Internet Explorer 5. This text demonstrates how to navigate, search, and explore the Web using Internet Explorer 5.

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0789546469

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9780789546463

Franzlations

The Imaginary Kafka Parables

By: Gary Barwin,Hugh Thomas,Craig Conley

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The Imaginary Kafka Parables

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The Racing Worm Brothers

By: Gary Barwin

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The Racing Worm Brothers

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Two boys race their pet worms, but lose track of their squirmy buddies. One day they find Worm and Pinky on the way to school, so they take them along" Cf. Our choice, 1998-1999.

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