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Issue 87, Fall/Winter 2025/26

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Issue 87, Fall/Winter 2025/26

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  • Little Deaths

    Little Deaths

    Sex and Psychoanalysis in the Age of Pandemics

    Ricky Varghese (Editor)

    The latest in the Exquisite Corpse series uses the AIDS crisis as a reference point to draw comparisons to and distinctions from the COVID-19 pandemic to answer the questions: What does it mean to have a sex life in the middle of a global health crisis? Are some risks worth taking?

    (University of Regina Press, $32.95 Paperback, 272 pages, ISBN: 978-17-79400-92-5)  

  • Contraband Bodies

    Contraband Bodies

    Jide Salawu

    Nigerian-raised, Edmonton-based Salawu explores migration, displacement, digital kinship, and ideas of home in this debut collection of elegiac and resistant poems that cross borders and map memories in images of bodies and birds, of roads and rivers.

    (NeWest Press, $20.95 Paperback, 84 pages, ISBN: 978-17-74391-26-6)  

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