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A Poem a Week: “Self-Portrait as Paperclip”

Excerpt from Myself A Paperclip

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A Poem a Week: “The Washing Place”

Excerpt from Almost Beauty

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A Poem a Week: “The Weeping Tense”

Excerpt from You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations

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On World Down Syndrome Day, Dreaming of a Better Life

My brother Bill would be 65 this year. Retirement age. I like to imagine he’d have mixed feelings about leaving his job, whatever that job might be. He’d be sad because he’d miss the chance to laugh with and play tricks on his co-workers; happy because he’d now be able to spend days in front of the TV, drawing with crayons and creating his own art. I like to imagine he’d do this in a home he shared with people he loved, maybe in a community run by L’Arche, or a group home, or maybe in an apartment with a spouse. My dreams of what Bill’s life might have been like are small and ordinary, but they centre on what makes life worth living: a home, a job or other occupation to fill his days, a chance to love and be loved.

By Catherine McKercher, author of Shut Away: When Down Syndrome was a Life Sentence

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The Big Spring Book Preview

With a new season comes a new roster of books to add to your shelf! From a coming-of-age story set during the Vietnam War to a rare photographic record of an early-20th-century queer relationship, here’s what you can look forward to from us this spring.

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