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“We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That’s all we know for sure. We can’t create a new species or a new world. That’s been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries. What are…
Contributor:
Carol Matas
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(Winnipeg, Canada)
Date:
1993
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And in that drowning instant
as the water heightened over me
it suddenly did come to pass
my preterite eternity
the image of myself intent
on several freedoms
fading to
myself in yellowed Basle…
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A. M. Klein
Places:
Philadelphia, United States of America
(Montreal, Canada)
Date:
1943
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Duddy drove to Montreal the next morning, picked up his stuff, and returned to Ste. Agathe by bus the same evening. Yvette met him at the station. “Hey,” he said, “did you see the paper? They raided…
Contributor:
Mordecai Richler
Places:
Toronto, Canada
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1959
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Presess Rumkowski plunged into the sea of activities and duties like a brave captain who knows his destination, sure that no blizzard, no stormy chaos will cause the ship entrusted into his hands by…
Contributor:
Chava Rosenfarb
Places:
Montreal, Canada
Date:
1972
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They have given you French names
and made you captive, my rugged
troublesome compatriots;
your splendid beards, are epicene,
plaster white
and your angers
unclothed with Palestinian hills quite lost…
Contributor:
Irving Layton
Places:
Montreal, Canada
Date:
1956
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1. The lives and times of Oedipus and Elektra
began with bloodgrim lust and dark carnality
but I was born next to the Neilson’s factory
where every piece is different, and that’s how I got
my…
Contributor:
Phyllis Gotlieb
Places:
Toronto, Canada
Date:
1960
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My Lord, how stands it with me now
Who, standing here before you
(who, fierce as you are, are also just).
Cannot bow down. You order this.
Why, therefore, I must break
If bend I will not, yet bend I…
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Eli Mandel
Date:
1973
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At the exit, behind the plywood counter, sits the foreman holding a bottle of Coke to his mouth. “Hey you! Come over here,” he calls to Barukh.
Barukh’s heart skips a beat. Someone else once called to…
Contributor:
Chava Rosenfarb
Places:
Montreal, Canada
Date:
1990
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Ever since she had sent the letter to Toronto, Fumiko had been a bundle of nerves. Would George Brady write back? Will he help us to know Hana? Even the letter carrier who…
Contributor:
Karen Levine
Places:
Morton Grove, United States of America
(Toronto, Canada)
Date:
2002