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SPRING 2012 CATALOGUE
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Arsenal Pulp Press gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada
Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council for its
publishing program, and the Government of Canada (through the
Canada Book Fund) and the Government of British Columbia (through
the Book Publishing Tax Credit Program) for its publishing activities.
Highlights from the Backlist
page 14, ISBN 978-1-55152-360-6 page 26, ISBN 978-1-55152-416-0 page 13, ISBN 978-1-55152-406-1
page 9, ISBN 978-1-55152-253-1 page 23, ISBN 978-1-55152-397-2page 15, ISBN 978-1-55152-425-2
page 13, ISBN 978-155152-413-9 page 16, ISBN 978-1-55152-396-5 page 10, ISBN 978-155152-402-3
page 13, ISBN 978-1-55152-255-5
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e-isbn 978-1-55152-440-5
7.5 x 9 | 336 pp | paper
$26.95 / $26.95 us
Ayurveda, the 5,000-year-old healing tradition from India linked to the development of yoga, is based on the concept that one’s physical, mental, and spiritual well-being comes from a number of sources, including a healthful diet based on one’s individual constitution. In this all-vegetarian cookbook, Amrita Sondhi, author of The Modern Ayurvedic Cookbook (now in its fourth printing), provides new twists on traditional Ayurvedic recipes that are also inspired by the growing popular-ity of whole grains (quinoa, spelt, and barley) and raw foods.
The Ayurvedic diet is based on the concept of three “doshas”: vata (air), pitta (fire), and kapha (earth). Each of us has a primary dosha that we can strive to main-tain at a healthy balance, but which can cause problems in excess. The book includes a questionnaire so readers can determine their own primary dosha and then look for recipes that will help them to maintain or reduce it for optimal health.
Recipes include modern interpretations of Indian cuisine (spicy paneer zucchini kabobs and mango & coconut kulfi), and Ayurvedic spins on vegetarian fare (barley rainbow pilaf and raw zucchini hummus). The book also includes yoga and breathing exercises easily done at home or at work, full-colour recipe photos, and information on sprouting/fermenting techniques and backyard gardening.
The Tastes of Ayurveda offers simple and delicious ways to achieve a more healthful and serene life.
Amrita SondhiAmrita Sondhi is a certified yoga instructor and Ayurvedic cooking teacher;
she is also owner of Movement (movementglobal.com), a cutting-edge
clothing line specializing in sustainable fibers. Her first book, The Modern
Ayurvedic Cookbook (page 12), was published in 2006. She lives on
Bowen Island, BC.
THE TASTES OF AYURVEDAMore Healthful, Healing Recipes for the Modern Ayurvedic
New healthful and tasty recipes for the body and soul, by the author of The Modern Ayurvedic Cookbook.
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isbn 978-1-55152-439-9
e-isbn 978-1-55152-441-2
8 x 10 | 192 pp | paper
$24.95 / $24.95 us
Judie Glick and Carol JenssonJudie Glick and Carol Jensson were among Granville Island’s first
merchants, Carol as owner of the Blue Parrot coffee bar and Judie as
co-owner of the Fraser Valley Juice and Salad Bar. Carol is now a food
stylist for Vancouver’s film industry, while Judie (co-author of the original
Granville Island Market Cookbook) has been writing about food since
1968.
Photographs by Tracey Kusiewicz
Vancouver’s Granville Island Public Market, established in 1979, is one of Canada’s largest and most popular public markets. Featuring over fifty food retailers, day vendors, and crafts, the Public Market is the main draw at Granville Island. Galleries, retail shops, a live the-atre, a hotel, and an art school as well as a functioning cement company make Granville Island one of the big-gest tourist attractions in a city that is regularly ranked as one of the world’s top destinations by Condé Nast Traveler.
The New Granville Island Market Cookbook features a bounty of recipes using fresh produce, gourmet meats, wild seafood, artisanal cheeses, fresh pasta, and other goods found at any public market offering quality, healthful food. Full-colour throughout, the book also includes lively food photos, Market snapshots, and profiles of the Market’s dedicated vendors, several of whom have been purveying their wares for many years. Taking off from the original bestselling Granville Island Market Cookbook (published twenty-seven years ago, in 1985), this brand-new collection comments on changes in food culture since the first book was released, and features such market-fresh recipes as barbecued leg of lamb, penne with spot prawns, Niçoise sandwich, orange and pomegranate salad, and roasted figs.
This beautiful cookbook offers readers delectable, fresh, and healthy recipes for every month of the year while providing vibrant and engaging portraits of life “at the Market.”
Vibrant, good-for-you recipes from Granville Island, one of Canada’s most popular public markets.
THE NEW GRANVILLE ISLAND MARKET COOKBOOK
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Gord HillGord Hill’s first book, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book
(see page 14), is now in its second printing. He is a member of the
Kwakwaka'wakw nation whose territory is located on northern Vancouver
Island and adjacent mainland in the province of “British Columbia.”
He has been involved in Indigenous people’s and anti-globalization
movements since 1990. He lives in Vancouver.
In recent years the world has borne witness to numer-ous confrontations, many of them violent, between protesters and authorities at pivotal gatherings of the world’s political and economic leaders. While police and the media are quick to paint participants as anar-chistic thugs, accurate accounts of their subsequent treatment at the hands of authorities often go untold—as well as the myriad stories of corporate and govern-ment corruption, greed, exploitation, and abuse of power that inspired such protests in the first place.
In this startling, politically astute graphic novel, Gord Hill (The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book) documents the history of capitalism as well as anti-capitalist and anti-globalization movements around the world, from the 1999 “Battle of Seattle” against the World Trade Organization to the Toronto G20 summit in 2010. The dramatic accounts trace the global origins of public pro-tests against those in power, then depict recent events based on eyewitness testimony; they go far to contra-dict the myths of violence perpetrated by authorities, and instead paint a vivid and historically accurate pic-ture of activists who bring the crimes of governments and multinationals to the world’s attention.
As the “Occupy” movements around the world unfold, The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book is a deft, eye-opening look at the new class warfare, and those brave enough to wage the battle.
THE ANTI-CAPITALIST RESISTANCE COMIC BOOK
From the WTO to the G20
A riveting graphic novel on anti-capitalist demonstrations around the world.
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Daniel Allen Cox’s third novel, about paranoia, the price of fame, and wolves.
fiction
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isbn 978-1-55152-446-7
e-isbn 978-1-55152-447-4
5.5 x 8 | 192 pp | paper
$15.95 • $15.95 us
BASEMENT OF WOLVES
Daniel Allen CoxDaniel Allen Cox is the author of the novels Shuck, shortlisted for a
Lambda Literary Award, and Krakow Melt, shortlisted for a Lambda
Literary Award, ReLit Award, and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT
Fiction (page 30 for both). Krakow Melt will soon be published in Turkish
as part of an underground literature series. Daniel lives in Montreal.
In this taut, beautifully layered novel by Lambda Literary and Ferro-Grumley Award finalist Cox (Shuck, Krakow Melt), Michael-David is a paranoid actor who feels that fame has ruined him. When a film shoot with wolves for co-stars takes a troubling turn, he disappears shortly before the premiere and barricades himself in an L.A. hotel, convinced that he’s cursed and must ride it out in hiding. He begins to explore the hotel’s secret passageways with the help of a young skateboarder he befriends, away from the glare of the spotlight. Meanwhile, the film’s director, suspicious that Michael-David is having an affair with his ex, is trying to find him in time for the premiere. A long-dormant nicotine addiction leads him closer to the target and into the path of danger, while the wolves also sniff out Michael-David for one final scene. A work of dream logic, Basement of Wolves is a haunting and cinematic romp through the minefields of identity crisis.
PRAISE FOR DANIEL ALLEN COX:
Cox is among the top young writers in this country. He is courageous, creative and inventive. He is also so, so what Canlit needs more of. —Front&Centre
Cox's work, polished to an incisive gloss, bristles with both mischief and menace. —Publishers Weekly
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Billeh NickersonBorn in Halifax and raised in Langley, BC, Billeh Nickerson is the author
of the poetry collections The Asthmatic Glassblower and McPoems
(see page 33). He has also authored the humour collection Let Me Kiss
It Better, and is the co-editor of Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s
Gay Male Poets (see page 33). He performs frequently at literary festivals
across Canada and teaches creative writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic
University in Vancouver.
Billeh Nickerson is a Vancouver-based poet well-known across Canada for his playful, witty observations on sex and culture. In Impact, his third poetry collection from Arsenal, Billeh turns his attention to a more serious subject that has fascinated him ever since he was a child: the sinking of the Titanic.
Published on the 100th anniversary of the disaster (which occurred on the night of April 15, 1912), Impact is an intimate and evocative poetry collection that depicts the tragedy in a series of poetic snapshots. Based on historical research the author conducted in Belfast and his birthplace of Halifax, the poems docu-ment not only the history behind the ship’s construc-tion, but what life must have been like for those aboard her maiden voyage and in the years following her sinking. While many readers are familiar with the vari-ous myths surrounding the ship and its sinking, this book offers a new, startlingly sensitive perspective with poems that take readers inside the hearts and minds of its passengers.
Evocative poems that chart the course of the Titanic’s sinking.
IMPACTThe Titanic Poems
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Kristyn DunnionKristyn Dunnion is a self-professed “Lady punk warrior” and the author of
the novels Big Big Sky, Missing Matthew, and Mosh Pit (all Red Deer
Press). She studied English Literature and Theatre at McGill University
and earned a Masters Degree in English at the University of Guelph. She
performs creeptastic art as Miss Kitty Galore, and is also the bass player for
dykemetal heartthrobs, Heavy Filth. She lives in Toronto.
kristyndunnion.com
A tattooed young man regains consciousness in the Don Jail, charged with his friend’s murder. An anti-social office clerk falls for a handsome bike courier and abandons his former life. An Ojibwe teen hunts her kidnapped girlfriend in an illegal sex trade ring and seeks revenge. This is the intense reality of The Dirt Chronicles, Kristyn Dunnion’s stunning debut story col-lection. In these linked tales, urban outlaws in Toronto map out their plans to take over the world while living collectively in an abandoned chair factory, destined for demolition according to a real estate gentrification plan. Their community is infiltrated by the King, a dirty cop bent on obliterating the city’s defiant underclass and exterminating the group’s rogue members; in order to survive, they may have to betray what they value most: autonomy, friendship, and newly discovered concepts of freedom.
Audacious and loud, The Dirt Chronicles is a thrashing three-chord rejection of mainstream culture and the powers-that-be, and a combustible homage to class rebellion.
There's pushing and shoving and the sticks come out: bodies jerk
and twitch. Feet shoot out from underneath; they kick and slide
to the killer music ... I see Digit's back, he's still eating the rest of
that cake in the corner. He's licking icing off that butcher knife,
and men are yelling at him. He turns, slowly, knife raised, and
there's a loud pop. A sound that cracks over top of the music and
Digit's head snaps backwards; there's a dark spot spreading across
his chest. The knife goes flying and his body lands by the sink. He
convulses, red spurts streak the walls and broken window behind
him. Kids scream. A girl beside me vomits. There's that pig we
hate. The King is standing over there, gun still raised, the smell of
it burning my nostrils. The King turns and stares at me. He sees
me see.
THE DIRT CHRONICLES
Queer hustlers, anarcho-punks, teen runaways: welcome to The Dirt Chronicles.
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A new edition of a classic Canadian title by award-winning Canadian historian Daniel Francis.
aboriginal studies
history
soc021000 his006000
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isbn 978-1-55152-425-2
6 x 9 | 272 pp | softcover
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The ImagInary IndIanThe Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture
Daniel FrancisDaniel Francis is a historian who was shortlisted for the 2010 Canada’s
History Pierre Berton Award. His many books include The Encyclopedia
of British Columbia, Seeing Reds (page 22), L.D. (page 24), and
National Dreams (page 24). He lives in North Vancouver, BC.
First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a reveal-ing history of the “Indian” image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating ste-reotypes that exist to this day.
Images of the Indian have always been fundamental to Canadian culture. From the paintings and photo-graphs of the 19th century to the Mounted Police sagas and the spectacle of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show; from the performances of Pauline Johnson, Grey Owl, and Buffalo Long Lance to the media images of Oka and Elijah Harper—the Imaginary Indian is ever with us, oscillating throughout our history from friend to foe, from Noble Savage to bloodthirsty warrior, from debased alcoholic to wise elder, from monosyllabic “squaw” to eloquent princess, from enemy of progress to protector of the environment.
The Imaginary Indian has been, and continues to be—as Daniel Francis reveals in this book—just about anything the non-Native culture has wanted it to be; and the contradictory stories non-Natives tell about Imaginary Indians are really stories about themselves and the uncertainties that make up their cultural heritage. This is not a book about Native people; it is the story of the images projected upon Native people—and the desper-ate uses to which they are put.
This new edition, published almost twenty years after the book’s first release, includes a new chapter by the author.
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Francis has done an amazing job of tracing down through Canadian history the perceptions … that the dominant culture had and has of this country’s Aborigi-nal people. —Drew Hayden Taylor
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Clint BurnhamClint Burnham is a Vancouver writer and critic. He teaches in the English
department at Simon Fraser University and is the author of many books,
including the novel Smoke Show (page 38), the poetry collections The
Benjamin Sonnets (Bookthug) and Rental Van (Anvil), and the literary
theory book The Jamesonian Unconscious (Duke University Press).
In The Only Poetry That Matters, novelist and poet Clint Burnham offers the first book-length examination of the Kootenay School of Writing, the notorious group of poets who came to international attention in Vancouver during the 1980s. Founded in 1984 after the closure of David Thompson University Centre in Nelson, the KSW offered writing and publishing courses and hosted colloquia, critical talks, and a reading series featuring local, Canadian, and international writers (which con-tinue to this day). Just as significantly, the KSW came to be associated with a number of “language” poets who worked defiantly outside the confines of traditional Canadian poetry.
Using the psychoanalytic criticism of Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Žižek, Burnham unpacks this dense and disjunctive poetry, arguing that it matters because of its materiality, because of its politics, and because of how the writing, rather than offering a readymade mes-sage, passes the work onto the reader, allowing the reader to create meaning. Burnham demystifies this difficult work, breaking it down into three tendencies: the “empty speech” of poets like Kathryn McLeod, the “social collage” of Jeff Derksen’s work, and the Red Tory “neopastoralism” of Lisa Robertson. He also takes a tour through the KSW archive, unearthing its place in a social history of Vancouver—its art, its politics, its tumultuous geography.
The Only Poetry That Matters is essential reading for anyone who is interested in contemporary writing, in political art, and in what it means to make meaning.
A thought-provoking history of the legendary Kootenay School of Writing.
The OnLy POeTry ThaT maTTerSreading the Kootenay School of Writing
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CROSSINGS
A new edition of Betty Lambert’s devastating 1979 novel.
Crossings was Betty Lambert’s only novel; published by Pulp Press in 1979, it was revolutionary for its frank and unsettling portrayal of Vicky, a female writer in Vancouver in the early 1960s, an educated and intel-ligent woman who struggles to come to terms with herself as she navigates an emotionally abusive rela-tionship with Mik, a logger and ex-con. Their physical, often violent affair offers an honest and unflinching look at relationships and female suffering. The book caused a furor when it was first published, and in fact was banned from some feminist Canadian bookstores. At the same time, it was widely acclaimed by critics and writers, including Jane Rule, who wrote: “This portrait of an artist as a young woman should stand beside Alice Munro’s Who Do You Think You Are and Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners as a testimony of the courage and cost of being a woman and a writer.”
Out of print for more than twenty years, this new edi-tion of Crossings will introduce this Canadian classic—and remarkable writer—to a new generation of readers.
Includes an introduction by novelist Claudia Casper (The Reconstruction and The Continuation of Love by Other Means).
It is a hilarious, reprehensible, moving book, brilliantly written.—Jane Rule
I’ve read few novels with characters as particularized and whole, perceptions as amusing and alive. It takes the basic Canadian-fiction starter kit and assembles it with a lightning wit and energy that make the results wholly agreeable ... Crossings is a superbly realized novel. —Douglas Hill
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isbn 978-1-55152-427-6
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Betty LambertBetty Lambert (1933–83) was a playwright and novelist; born in Calgary
to a working-class family, she graduated from the University of British
Columbia in 1957, and joined the English faculty at Simon Fraser
University in 1965, where she eventually became professor. She was best
known for her prodigious output of plays for stage, radio, and television.
Crossings was her only novel.
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D.M. FraserD.M. Fraser (1947–85) was also the author of The Voice of Emma Sachs;
following his death at the age of thirty-eight, Arsenal published Prelude,
an edition of his collected works, and Ignorant Armies, an unfinished
novel brought to life by Stephen Osborne and Bryan Carson. Fraser was
also Pulp Press’s de facto editor for much of the 1970s and early 1980s.
fiction
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D.M. Fraser, one of Canada’s best unknown writ-ers, was born in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, the son of a Presbyterian minister and an English teacher. He moved on his own to the west coast at the age of twenty and became part of Vancouver’s nascent literary community, specifically the motley beer-and-anarchy collection of writers, poets, and misfits associated with Pulp Press (established forty years ago in 1971). Class Warfare is Fraser’s first book, published in 1974 (with a second edition published in 1976), the result of his friendship with Pulp founder Stephen Osborne (currently the editor-in-chief of Geist magazine), who met while both were students at the University of British Columbia. It is an extraordinary collection of stories rooted in the poli-tics and culture of 1970s Vancouver; a gloriously written call to arms addressed to the disenfranchised about the possibilities of “the sweetness of life.”
This new edition of Class Warfare, published thirty-seven years after its first printing, promises to shed new light on this brilliant, unsung writer.
Includes an introduction by Stephen Osborne, Fraser’s literary executor.
We would have slept forever, if it had been possible; but it was not
possible. The noise of gunfire woke us. The siren in the street, the
crack of truncheon on skull, the groaning of muscle and crashing
of blood, in all the unrewarded labours of the world, woke us. The
shouts of the dying penetrated into that sleep, dragged us half-
blind and staggering out of the lovely dreams, the sheltered nests
we thought were ours by right, into this wakefulness, this cold and
unforgiving daylight. There was no other choice.
CLASS WARFARE
A new edition of short stories by the legendary D.M. Fraser on “the sweetness of life.”
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