river woman (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Trade paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
112
Utgivningsdatum
2018-11-08
Förlag
House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Dimensioner
213 x 137 x 10 mm
Vikt
136 g
ISBN
9781487003463

river woman

av Katherena Vermette
Häftad,  Engelska, 2018-11-08
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Governor General's Award-winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette's second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature - its destructive power and beauty, its timelessness, and its place in human history. Award-winning Métis poet and novelist Katherena Vermette's second book of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as decolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist within all times. The poems are grounded in what feels like an eternal present, documenting moments of clarity that lift the speaker (and reader) out of the illusion of linear experience. This is what we mean when we describe a work of art as being timeless. Like the river they speak to, these poems return again and again to the same source in search of new ways to reconstruct what has been lost. Vermette suggests that it's through language and the body - particularly through language as it lives inside the body - that a fragmented self might resurface as once again whole. This idea of breaking apart and coming back together is woven throughout the collection as the speaker contemplates the ongoing negotiation between the city, the land, and the water, and as she finds herself falling into trust with the ones she loves. Vermette honours the river as a woman - her destructive power and beauty, her endurance, and her stories. These poems sing from a place where "words / transcend ceremony / into everyday" and "nothing / is inanimate."
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KATHERENA VERMETTE (she/her) is a Red River Métis (Michif) writer from Treaty 1 territory. Her father's roots run deep in this land, dating back over two centuries, and her mother's side is Mennonite. Vermette received the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry for her first book, North End Love Songs, and wide acclaim for her second collection of poems, river woman. The Break, a novel, won many awards including the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and was a bestseller in Canada. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Katherena lives with her family in a cranky old house within skipping distance of the temperamental Red River.

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