Canada Spring 2012 Arsenal Pulp Press

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Highlights from the Backlist

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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.

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New healthful and tasty recipes for the body and soul, by the author of The Modern Ayurvedic Cookbook.

THE TASTES OF AYURVEDA new release

More Healthful, Healing Recipes for the Modern Ayurvedic

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 popularity 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 maintain 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.

Amrita Sondhi Amrita 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 Ayurveda offers simple and delicious ways to achieve a more healthful and serene life.

isbn 978-1-55152-438-2 e-isbn 978-1-55152-440-5 7.5 x 9 | 336 pp | paper $26.95 / $26.95 us

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Vibrant, good-for-you recipes from Granville Island, one of Canada’s most popular public markets.

THE NEW GRANVILLE ISLAND MARKET COOKBOOK new release

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 theatre, a hotel, and an art school as well as a functioning cement company make Granville Island one of the biggest tourist attractions in a city that is regularly ranked as one of the world’s top destinations by Condé Nast Traveler.

Judie Glick and Carol Jensson Judie 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.

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.”

Photographs by Tracey Kusiewicz

isbn 978-1-55152-439-9 e-isbn 978-1-55152-441-2 8 x 10 | 192 pp | paper $24.95 / $24.95 us

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Stories, essays, and poems from life in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

V6A

Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

“V6A” is the postal prefix for what is often described as “the poorest neighbourhood in Canada”—Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). Statistics about the area depict conditions related to crime, drugs, sex work, and poverty that overshadow another reality based on selfdetermination.

The anthology V6A refracts the experience of thirty-two writers, emerging and established, who have been a part of the DTES community in some way. Their prose, poetry, and essays reappropriate the coding of the area and recast the DTES as a site of creative energy and human dignity.

Cathleen With (Having Faith in the Polar Girls’ Prison) writes about the area’s street kids. Michael Turner (Hard Core Logo) recalls years living in an apartment on Powell Street. Madeleine Thien (Certainty) examines the effect of the neighbourhood on her family’s dynamic and its role in her development as a writer. Wayde Compton (After Canaan) writes about Hogan’s Alley and the history of Vancouver’s black community. Other pieces explore the sex trade and the Missing Women of the DTES, the culture of Chinatown and other ethnic communities, and the simple, human truths around poverty, kinship, forgiveness, and faith, and remind us that expression flourishes regardless of barriers.

Includes a preface by writer Gary Geddes. Partial proceeds from the sale of this book will fund Thursdays Writing Collective, a program for DTES writers directed by co-editor Elee Kraljii Gardiner.

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John Mikhail Asfour is the author of five volumes of poetry in English, the most recent of which is Blindfold (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011). www.thursdayswritingcollective.ca

isbn 978-1-55152-462-7 e-isbn 978-1-55152-463-4 6 x 9 | 208 pp | paper $19.95 / $19.95 us 9 781551 524627

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Ivan E. Coyote’s first book aimed at queer youth: stories about being true to yourself.

ONE IN EVERY CROWD Stories new release

Ivan E. Coyote is one of Canada’s best-loved storytellers; her honest, wry, plain-spoken tales of growing up in the Yukon and living out loud on the west coast have attracted readers and live audiences around the world.

For many years, Ivan has performed in high schools, where her talks have inspired and galvanized many young people to embrace their own sense of self and to be proud of who they are. One in Every Crowd, Ivan’s eighth book with Arsenal Pulp Press, is her first specifically for queer youth.

Comprised of new stories and others culled from previous collections, One in Every Crowd is for anyone who has ever felt different or alone in their struggle to be true to themselves. Included are stories about Ivan’s own tomboy past in Canada’s north, where playing hockey and wearing pants were the norm; and about her adult life in the big city, where she encounters both cruelty and kindness in unexpected places. Then there are the tales of family and friends who live their lives by example, like Francis, the curly-haired little boy who likes to wear dresses, and the brave kids she meets at queer youth camp.

Ivan E. Coyote Ivan E. Coyote is a writer, performer, and author of six previous books published by Arsenal Pulp Press, the most recent of which is Missed Her (see page 31 for all of Ivan’s books). Ivan is also the co-editor (with Zena Sharman) of the anthology Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (page 23). One of her stories appears in the anthology It Gets Better, edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller. She is a long-time columnist for the LGBT newspaper Xtra! Originally from the Yukon, Ivan is a resident of Vancouver.

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Funny, inspiring, and full of heart, One in Every Crowd is really for everyone; it’s about embracing and celebrating difference and feeling comfortable in one’s own skin, no matter what the circumstance.

PRAISE FOR IVAN E. COYOTE: Coyote has a gift for blending the tragic and comic in a way that renders a reader gobsmacked.

—Quill and Quire

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A riveting graphic novel on anti-capitalist demonstrations around the world.

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THE ANTI-CAPITALIST RESISTANCE COMIC BOOK From the WTO to the G20 In recent years the world has borne witness to numerous 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 anarchistic thugs, accurate accounts of their subsequent treatment at the hands of authorities often go untold— as well as the myriad stories of corporate and government 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 protests against those in power, then depict recent events based on eyewitness testimony; they go far to contradict the myths of violence perpetrated by authorities, and instead paint a vivid and historically accurate picture 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, eyeopening look at the new class warfare, and those brave enough to wage the battle.

Gord Hill Gord 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.

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Daniel Allen Cox’s third novel, about paranoia, the price of fame, and wolves.

BASEMENT OF WOLVES new release

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 MichaelDavid 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 MichaelDavid 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:

Daniel Allen Cox Daniel 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.

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

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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Evocative poems that chart the course of the Titanic’s sinking.

IMPACT new release

The Titanic Poems

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 document not only the history behind the ship’s construction, 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 various 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.

Billeh Nickerson Born 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.

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Ashok Mathur’s acclaimed novel about three generations of a Parsi family in India.

A LITTLE DISTILLERY IN NOWGONG new release

new in paperback This fantastical historical novel, narrated by a child yet to be born, traces the lives of three generations of a Parsi family in India from the late 1800s to present day.

The narrative follows the family from the intricacies of village life in the jungles of central India to the complications of urban life in turbulent pre- and post-independence struggles to contemporary diasporic realities in the United Kingdom and North America.

The novel begins in 1899 with the birth of a boy named Jamshed to a rural Parsi family in central India. As he comes of age, Jamshed feels he is faced with the choice between spirituality and materiality: he has the opportunity to train to become a Parsi priest, or may follow family connections to a business opportunity as a distillery manager. Jamshed, who will become the family patriarch as a result of his choice, quickly becomes obsessed with the question of free will, and he passes on this obsession to his descendants. His preoccupations, however, are complicated by frequent, often disturbing, visitations by his as-yet-unborn grandchildren, who may or may not come into existence based on the choices he makes.

Ashok Mathur Born in Bhopal, India, Ashok Mathur is the author of two previous novels, Once upon an Elephant and The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar (see page 32 for both). Formerly of Calgary, he is the Director of the Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC.

This beautifully told, engaging novel, by the author of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize finalist The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar, humanizes the politics of ethnicity, culture, and colonial rule.

One of the finest novels of the year. —Vancouver Sun A compulsively readable work that unfolds naturally but surprises at every turn.

—National Post

isbn 978-1-55152-461-0 e-isbn 978-1-55152-345-3 5.5 x 8 | 456 pp | paper $19.95/ $19.95 us

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