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'Maple Vedas' by Gandhar K. Chakravarty
Author Gandhar Chakravarty reads and discusses his latest collection of poems, "Maple Vedas".
MAPLE VEDAS --- K. Gandhar Chakravarty
The latest in a long line of scriptures, MAPLE VEDAS explores the voyages of the Gods of India -- Vishnu, Shiva, Ganesha, Kali -- as they visit the northwestern lands of the globe in the past, the present, and the near future. Peopled with other characters like a prophetic moose, a secretive walrus, and a charming groundhog, the interactions and dialogues of this third millenium testament force you to rethink history, religion, and your place in all of it -- wherever you come from. In Maple Vedas, we discover that the Gods of India continue to roam Canada and the United States -- perhaps standing beside you on a city bus -- but they have come in new incarnations. Will you recognize them?
Colour with Original Artwork by Tara Chartrand, Chris Dyer, Colleen MacIsaac. 6 x 9 . 78 pages. ISBN 978-1-926716-05-3. $18.88
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"Spoilers" by Mark Foss
Author Mark Foss reads from his latest novel "Spoilers", featuring original postcards with Dr. Locke and Rex Beach.
At an open-air clinic, the enigmatic twist of Dr. Mahlon Locke sets events into motions that trickle down through time until they become a relentless flood:
An unrepentant dreamer with one short leg finds solace in beautiful shoes. A celebrated author points to a shelf of useless words and a loaded gun. A sharp-tongued scriptgirl clings to the scent of Easter lilies. Guided by ephemera, a young woman reconnects these spoiled lives in a sensuous bid to save herself.
Punctuated by unforgiving factoids and vintage postcards, Spoilers confronts the fleeting nature of fame, the human impact of progress, and the consequences of choosing art over love.
"For now, there is Baldie Fitzgerald. He doesn't know it yet, but he too will be changed."
Sarah. On a wall in a house in Florida she collects postcards and photos from a hundred years ago. Faces of strangers at the clinic of Dr. Mahlon Locke, miracle worker or quack depending who you ask, stare out at her with the blindness of passing time.
Yet the faces are not mute. Baldie, the young man with one short leg; Ora, the girl with a wandering eye; Jack the chairboy: all three come alive under Sarah's probing gaze.
Alternating among many characters' voices, Spoilers is a web of stories about coming of age, escaping the past and holding onto it, finding love and letting go. All come together for Sarah, and for us.
193 pages 5" x 8" ISBN 978-1-926716-08-4
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"Crossing to Tadoussac" by Frederick E. Bryson
Frederick E. Bryson reads from his latest novel "Crossing to Tadoussac". With video footage of the Quiet Revolution, the FLQ uprising, and the Sovereignty movement.
The FLQ have bombed the Montreal Stock Exchange. The streets are charged and a referendum is called on secession. Frederick E. Bryson captures a defining moment in Canadian history in his latest novel "Crossing to Tadoussac". 438 pages, 5 x 8. ISBN 978-1-926716-00-8. $21.88
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"Unfictions" by Jason Price Everett
The Author and DJ Silence take turns reading from "Unfictions"
"Jason Price Everett's UNFICTIONS is a superb first novel. It reminded me of J.G.Ballard at his best....He has a poet's sense of language and a painter's sense of scene, offering a clear-eyed interpretation of today's realities....I can thoroughly recommend it."
- MICHAEL MOORCOCK, author of Breakfast in the Ruins
Unfictions serves to dramatize the way in which we react to such an information-rich environment in all of its glorious simultaneity--the beginning of a type of 'New Realism' in letters -- reflecting faithfully a society so saturated with events and quotations that it can no longer distinguish between them and their relative meanings. 288 pages. 5 x 8, ISBN 978-0-9809108-6-5. $24.88
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"Kolkata Dreams" by Gandhar K. Chakravarty
Gandhar Chakravarty, author of "Maple Vedas" & "Kolkata Dreams" discusses his work.
KOLKATA DREAMS
A work that will transport you across the sea to the idealization and mysticism of the East against the realities of its westernization. Reading and reciting this poetry, you will find that laughter often chokes itself on tears while the book yo-yos between meditation and contemplation. 88 pages, Colour, Illustrated. 5.5 x 8.5. ISBN 978-0-9809108-7-2. $18.88
MAPLE VEDAS
The latest in a long line of scriptures, MAPLE VEDAS explores the voyages of the Gods of India -- Vishnu, Shiva, Ganesha, Kali -- as they visit the northwestern lands of the globe in the past, the present, and the near future. Peopled with other characters like a prophetic moose, a secretive walrus, and a charming groundhog, the interactions and dialogues of this third millennium testament force you to rethink history, religion, and your place in all of it -- wherever you come from. In Maple Vedas, we discover that the Gods of India continue to roam Canada and the United States -- perhaps standing beside you on a city bus -- but they have come in new incarnations. Will you recognize them?
Cover by Tara Chartrand, copyright 2010. Colour with Original Artwork by Tara Chartrand, Chris Dyer, Collen MacIsaac. 6 x 9 . 78 pages. ISBN 978-1-926716-05-3. $18.88
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