Mennonite Literature

You Don't Get to Be a Saint

• Praise:

  "Witty, lucid, passionate, the long lines of Friesen's poems reach into 'human days that can't be helped' and retrieve images of intimacy and humility. This is a book of dances and converstaions: between the poet and his anima, speech and the outward silence of thought, language, and gesture. With his customary stateliness and elegance of mind, Friesen engages us to think 'somewhere between yes and no'-- a place, as it turns out, filled with the voices of friends."—Sharon Thesen

standing all the night through

Murder in Gutenthal

• Reviews:
  • Armin Wiebe's Menno-centric stories add an important element to the literary coverage of "Canadian" culture. Although these people are Caucasian who, for the most part, interact in English, are engaged in the economy of the nation and with the social issues of the hemisphere, they are still an identifiable "sub-culture" who have been here for more than a century. If we are truly to understand our homeland, the more we know and learn about all the people who have chosen to make Canada home, the more we recognize the diverse contributions that have been made to the nation, and the better we understand our country, in a loving, not-too-serious way. Armin Wiebe's Menno-centric stories add an important element to the literary coverage of "Canadian" culture. Although these people are Caucasian who, for the most part, interact in English, are engaged in the economy of the nation and with the social issues of the hemisphere, they are still an identifiable "sub-culture" who have been here for more than a century. If we are truly to understand our homeland, the more we know and learn about all the people who have chosen to make Canada home, the more we recognize the diverse contributions that have been made to the nation, and the better we understand our country, in a loving, not-too-serious way. —Prairie Fire Review of books

Pumpkin Eaters

Agnes in the Sky

Ride the Blue Roan

Flicker and Hawk

questions i asked my mother

Stone Watermelon, The

i sing for my dead in german

Surviving the Paraphrase

Mossbank Canon, The

Shunning, The