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‘the lovely gold cross’

An epigraph and a poem from HENRI COLE The Look of Things (Knopf, 1994).

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Late summer

  sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet sunflowers A sweetheart of a day.  knife | fork | book

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KFB Bestsellers

Week of 26 August 2017 AISHA SASHA JOHN  I Have to Live  McClelland & Stewart KATHRYN MOCKLER + DAVID POOLMAN Some Theories ST Press SVETLANA LILOVA Metaphysical Dictionary Dumagrad MARCUS MCCANN Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe Invisible LINDA BESNER Feel Happier in Nine Seconds Coach House PHOEBE WANG Admission Requirements McClelland & Stewart TARA-MICHELLE […]

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A KFB welcome

Newfoundland’s BREAKWATER BOOKS on our shelves.  knife | fork | book

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SONS

DALE SMITH   DALE SMITH SONS  OCTOBER 2017 from k | f | b SUBSCRIBE NOW DALE SMITH is a poet, critic, and scholar of poetry and rhetorical theory on the faculty of English at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is the editor with Robert J. Bertholf of An Open Map: The Robert Duncan / Charles […]

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HOT

  SIZZLING NEW ARRIVALS (Thanks Kate!)  knife | fork | book  

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On our radar

  A sampler of current books we love.  knife | fork | book ERIN ROBINSONG Rag Cosmology (BookThug) KATHRYN MOCKLER DAVID POOLMAN Some Theories (ST Press)  KIMBERLY ALIDIO After Projects the Resound (Black Radish Books) MARCUS MCCANN Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe (Invisible) LINDA BESNER Feel Happier in Nine Seconds (Coach House) IGOR […]

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Superabundance

SUPERABUNDANT is the only way to describe the sizzling summer issue of ARC POETRY MAGAZINE  (that, and ‘MUST HAVE’) with it’s magnificent cover/portfolio of ANDREW MONCRIEF, new work by KFB familiars LISE GASTON, MAUREEN SCOTT HARRIS, JIM JOHNSTONE, AARON KREUTER, BEN LADOUCEUR, CASSIDY MCFADZEAN, SHANE NEILSON, PHILLIP CRYMBLE, and a fucking brilliant turn by FAN […]

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“the why is not the how.”

  JAMES BALDWIN JIMMY’S BLUES A much-coveted ex-library copy from my personal collection, long out-of-print, newly expanded and re-issued by Beacon Press. (On order, I’ll let you know when they arrive.)

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What keeps me here

Feeling the love of the earth,he returned home to himself. pic.twitter.com/ZuxRFwxJwu — Henri Cole (@ColeHenri) July 31, 2017 Pretty much every day, this man touches my heart. Thanks, Henri.   knife | fork | book