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Product Description: George McWhirter grounds his delightful characters in the real, while his sharp wit and creative scenarios border on the fantastical: a woman adopts a dolphin-man; an Irish madam runs a railroad bordello in the desert; a devoted husband drives his childless, belly-dancing wife to Greek tavernas with the ambition to quicken their lagging fertility; a Kurdish barber has a cure for hair loss, but not the loss of his wife and family in Iraq; a Mexican campesino swears his machete-severed ear is a sea shell tuned to the Pacific Ocean...read more
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9781550964257 | Exile Editions, November 1, 2014, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: George McWhirter grounds his delightful characters in the real, while his sharp wit and creative scenarios border on the fantastical: a woman adopts a dolphin-man; an Irish madam runs a railroad bordello in the desert; a devoted husband drives his childless, belly-dancing wife to Greek tavernas with the ambition to quicken their lagging fertility; a Kurdish barber has a cure for hair loss, but not the loss of his wife and family in Iraq; a Mexican campesino swears his machete-severed ear is a sea shell tuned to the Pacific Ocean.
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9780872865648 | Blg rep edition (City Lights Books, October 30, 2012), cover price $35.00
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9780872865044, titled "Solar Poems/ Poemas solares" | Bilingual edition (City Lights Books, March 1, 2010), cover price $18.95
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9781553800545 | Ronsdale Pr, April 15, 2008, cover price $15.95
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9780889822436 | Oolichan Books, September 15, 2007, cover price $17.95
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9780811215091 | Bilingual edition (New Directions, April 1, 2002), cover price $19.95
Product Description: Journey into the landscapes of childhood and youth, marriage and fatherhood. Ireland and Canada dance cheek to cheek here, West Coast and Prairie tango together, memory and myth mingle in a single, silky mist. This is a book to be savored and returned to in different moods, at different times of day, different stages of life¯a book to be discovered slowly, like a child, or a lover...read more
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9780889822061 | 1 edition (Oolichan Books, January 9, 2002), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Journey into the landscapes of childhood and youth, marriage and fatherhood.
Product Description: Where Words Like Monarchs Fly brings Mexican poetry to the fullness of its senses in English with all the music of the meaning, richness of metaphor and humour. It introduces Jose Emilio Pacheco, Gabriel Zaid, Homero Aridjis and Elsa Crossâborn in the thirties and the fortiesâalong with the fifties generation they have inspired...read more
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9781895636185 | Anvil Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Where Words Like Monarchs Fly brings Mexican poetry to the fullness of its senses in English with all the music of the meaning, richness of metaphor and humour.
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9780887509957 | Oberon Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $25.95
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9780887509964 | Oberon Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $12.95
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9780889821200 | 1 edition (Oolichan Books, January 1, 1993), cover price $10.95
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9780887508516 | Oberon Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $29.95
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9780887508523 | Oberon Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $14.95
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9780887508363 | Oberon Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $29.95
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9780811210225 | Bilingual edition (New Directions, May 1, 1987), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Poems by the contemporary Mexican author explore themes including time, nature, death, and history
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9780887506598 | Oberon Pr, March 1, 1987, cover price $29.95
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9780887505362 | Oberon Pr, November 1, 1984, cover price $23.95
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9780887505034 | Oberon Pr, January 1, 1984, cover price $17.95
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9780887505058 | Oberon Pr, January 1, 1984, cover price $9.95
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9780887504174 | Oberon Pr, September 1, 1982, cover price $19.95
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9780887504181 | Oberon Pr, September 1, 1982, cover price $9.95
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