Erin Wunker is an associate professor of Canadian literature at Dalhousie University, which is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq Peoples. Her areas of research and teaching include Canadian poetry and poetics, feminist and affect theory, and creative non-fiction with a focus on the personal essay and autotheory. She is the author of Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life (2016). With Sina Queyras and Geneviève Robichaud she edited Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader (2020). With Hannah McGregor and Julie Rak she edited Refuse: CanLit in Ruins (2018). With Bart Vautour, Travis V. Mason, and Christl Verduyn she edited Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics (2015). She is currently working on a creative non-fiction project about boredom, anxiety, and care work.

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• PrefaceChapter One: Emergent Patterns and Wandering TrajectoriesChapter Two: Poetry of Critique, Engagement, and TransnationalismChapter Three: Poetic Witness and the 1940s Chapter Four: Postwar Poetics and New National MythologiesChapter Five: Indigenous Poetics Chapter Six: Contemporary Poetics and Planetary Engagements

Erin Wunker is an associate professor of Canadian literature at Dalhousie University, which is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq Peoples. Her areas of research and teaching include Canadian poetry and poetics, feminist and affect theory, and creative non-fiction with a focus on the personal essay and autotheory. She is the author of Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life (2016). With Sina Queyras and Geneviève Robichaud she edited Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader (2020). With Hannah McGregor and Julie Rak she edited Refuse: CanLit in Ruins (2018). With Bart Vautour, Travis V. Mason, and Christl Verduyn she edited Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics (2015). She is currently working on a creative non-fiction project about boredom, anxiety, and care work.

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• PrefaceChapter One: Emergent Patterns and Wandering TrajectoriesChapter Two: Poetry of Critique, Engagement, and TransnationalismChapter Three: Poetic Witness and the 1940s Chapter Four: Postwar Poetics and New National MythologiesChapter Five: Indigenous Poetics Chapter Six: Contemporary Poetics and Planetary Engagements

Erin Wunker is an associate professor of Canadian literature at Dalhousie University, which is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq Peoples. Her areas of research and teaching include Canadian poetry and poetics, feminist and affect theory, and creative non-fiction with a focus on the personal essay and autotheory. She is the author of Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life (2016). With Sina Queyras and Geneviève Robichaud she edited Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader (2020). With Hannah McGregor and Julie Rak she edited Refuse: CanLit in Ruins (2018). With Bart Vautour, Travis V. Mason, and Christl Verduyn she edited Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics (2015). She is currently working on a creative non-fiction project about boredom, anxiety, and care work.

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• PrefaceChapter One: Emergent Patterns and Wandering TrajectoriesChapter Two: Poetry of Critique, Engagement, and TransnationalismChapter Three: Poetic Witness and the 1940s Chapter Four: Postwar Poetics and New National MythologiesChapter Five: Indigenous Poetics Chapter Six: Contemporary Poetics and Planetary Engagements