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A Smoother Pebble, A Prettier Shell (1996)

A Smoother Pebble, A Prettier Shell by Ken Stange (Penumbra Press, 1996)
Science and art and literature come together in this book of stunning images accompanied by poems and scientific explications of the beauty that can be found deep in the mines and minds of modern science.  Signed limited editions available here at Two Cultures Press.

Advice To Travellers (1994)

Advice To Travellers by Ken Stange (Penumbra Press, 1994)
Poems as readable as an advice column, but as "unsentimental as spit on the sidewalk." As a Books in Canada reviewer remarked, Stange’s verse "achieves a hard precision": this is a book for travellers, not mere tourists.  Signed limited editions available here at Two Cultures Press.

Bourgeois Pleasures (1984)

Bourgeois Pleasures by Ken Stange (The Quarry Press, 1984)
As much about bourgeois pain as pleasure, this extended narrative combines prose and poetry in a long letter to a friend who is in denial of his roots.  The poems in this book originally appeared in numerous prestigious journals and anthologies, but the book pulling them all together into an extended narrative has long been out of print.  Now some signed limited editions are available here at Two Cultures Press.

Bushed (1979)

Bushed by Ken Stange (York Publishing, 1979)
A “multi-genre novel” that confronts the awesome—and magnificently indifferent—power of The Boreal North.  The Globe & Mail reviewer remarked that "Bushed is to the mentality of the urban sprawl what James Dickey's Deliverance was to the Boy Scouts of America...an atavistic tour de force...a work of startling power and insight".  Only a very limited number of copies (signed by the author) are still available for sale.

Cold Pigging Poetics (1981)

Cold Pigging Poetics by Ken Stange (York Publishing, 1981)
Prose and poetry and you-name-it come together in this bizarre and entertaining collection of ‘experiments”.  As the Windsor Star reviewer remarked, Stange is expert at "elaborate co-mingling of forms". Alternatively deadly serious and flippant, obscure and blunt, the experiments in this book play with everything from mathematics to anecdotes told from a bar stool.  A limited number of copies (signed by the author) are still available for sale.

Colonization Of a Cold Planet (2008)

Colonization Of a Cold Planet by Ken Stange (Two Cultures Press, 2008)
Originally published in Northward Journal, this play for voices about three men trying to survive in a cold and hostile wilderness is now available in book format.  Based on a true story set in the Canadian arctic, this retelling is set in a new world and is as much a tale of the psychology of survival as of the brutal realities of physical survival.  This is Two Cultures Press’s premier publication.

Love Is A Grave (1978)

Love Is A Grave by Ken Stange (Nebula Press, 1978)
Poems as much about lust as love, as much about death as about love, as much about death as the 'little death'.  The author clearly agrees with Plato that “love is a grave… mental illness”.  But also knows how to savor sickness.  The original edition is out of print but is now available in inexpensive downloadable PDF format.

Nocturnal Rhythms (1979)

Nocturnal Rhythms by Ken Stange (Penumbra Press, 1979)
A collection of poems exploring the night side of human nature.  These very ‘musical’ poems offer "delights and difficulties" (The Globe and Mail) while remaining accessible. ("Stange can still blow me from the page with one of his easy sounding, chunky poems." Rubicon reviewer.)   Signed first editions available.

These Proses A Problem Or Two (2008) These Proses A Problem Or Two by Ken Stange (Two Cultures Press, 2008)

A connected collection of often humorous experiments with prose that merges into poetry, stuff previously only available between the covers of periodicals as diverse as Strange Faeces and The Antigonish Review.  Surreal stories.  Quasi-scientific riffs.  Allegories and alliterative allusionary tales.  Puns and pretensions punctured. Just plain linguistic fun.  This is Two Cultures Press’s second publication.


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