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Into the Continent
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- Book Synopsis
- Emily McGiffin's poems examine imperial violence and colonialism in South Africa and Canada. Multifaceted and multi-voiced, Emily McGiffin's poems explore the ongoing violence, destruction, and loss wrought by colonialism and capitalist extraction across time and geographic space, from Turtle Island to South Africa. McGiffin animates the spectres that haunt our private and public pasts. Her words remind us that we live in a world shaped by the events and people of the past, by suffering, and seizure, yet at times in the shadow of great acts of generosity. This world, largely built by iterations of violence, still concentrates wealth into the hands of a few, and McGiffin reminds us that power wants to hold its grip, to reproduce itself. my body an ark carrying successors like a chambered nautilus what i was placed here to do ferry the unborn across the inhospitable land make a bed amid the thornbush make a tea table, forge the domestic bliss of my country raise them as heirs draw our lineage in the sand
- About The Author
- Emily McGiffin was born on Tla-o-qui-aht territory and raised on the lands of the Ts'uubaa-asatx and Quw'utsun Nations. She's the author of Between Dusk and Night, shortlisted for the CAA Poetry Prize and the Raymond Souster Award, Subduction Zone, winner of the ASLE Creative Book Award, and Of Land, Bones and Money, a book of literary criticism, and the winner of the 2008 RBC Bronwyn Wallace Award for Emerging Writers for poetry. Currently, she is a Research Fellow at University College London.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780889779891
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- University of Regina Press, (01 April 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 80
- Weight
- 170 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 140 x 216 x 13 mm
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