A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
The choice of poem is "an act of protest" against the climate of misogynistic abuse that teens and adult women are subject to on a daily basis.
What our literary output offers is not a vision of perfectibility but an attempt to reckon with our world in all its contradiction, ambiguity, and fractiousness.
The combined slipperiness and multifaceted aspect of language is all over this volume.
The title of Mc Donnell's book alludes to a newsroom cliché deployed in the early stages of an ongoing crisis or upheaval.
The slipperiness of words is part of Sze's fascination here, as are the empty spaces that require filling.
Shah eschews the elevated pretensions of mock epic or otherwise self-indulgent poetry.
The extent to which the body, for a queer Cree writer, is tied into an ongoing history of displacement, dispersal, and disappearance is at the centre of Belcourt's writing.
S&S is no stranger to publishing major political books across both sides of the aisle in the U.S.
These poems testify to the range of McKay's emotive field.
The poems in National Animal do not cleave to unidirectional pieties about nature or the resilience of humankind.
