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Spring/Summer 2022

Upcoming WLU Press titles for 2022. 

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The Contemporary Leonard Cohen

Edited by Joel Deshaye & Kait Pinder
Categories: Poetry

The Contemporary Leonard Cohen is an exciting new study that offers an original explanation of Leonard Cohen’s staying power and his various positions in music, literature, and art.
The death of Leonard ...

Unpacking the Personal Library

Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public ...

Through a Changing Landscape

Afterword by Adam Crerar
By Philippe Elsworthy
Categories: Waterloo Region

What makes Waterloo Region unique? What defines a sense of place?
Seventy-five carefully chosen photographs depict the elements that collectively make Waterloo Region's urban landscape different from ...

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indigenous ...

Something Cold and Hard Like Winter

By (artist) Shelley Niro
Contributions by Alicia Elliott
Foreword by Suzanne Luke
Categories: Indigenous Studies

Something Cold and Hard like Winter showcases the movement of time through large scale photographs and video. The works speak to the narratives that surround the earth and the longevity of its existence, ...

Scratching River

By Michelle Porter
Categories: Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

Scratching River braids the voices of mother, brother, sister, ancestor, and river to create a story about environmental, personal, and collective healing.
This memoir revolves around a search for home ...

What the Oceans Remember

By Sonja Boon
Categories: Social Science
Series: Life Writing

Sonja Boon’s heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than 30 years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. An invitation to join a family tree ...