Continent: Poems - Couverture souple

Boothby, Aaron

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0771004478 ISBN 13 : 9780771004476

Editeur : McClelland & Stewart, 2023

Synopsis

“These poems buckle and drift in ways that reveal their continental scope. The I of these poems offers its critical lament, but it never overlooks beauty.” --Kaie Kellough

The poems in Continent ask to be done with presuming, knowing, and defining. They trace maps laid across lands and peoples by force, voiced by a speaker both engaged in attendingto this ongoing violence and unable to escape complicity with it. Urgent, visceral, emotionally striking, Aaron Boothby’s debut collection asks the question: how can we see, listen, and feel an ongoing catastrophe and look for what is beyond it?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Aaron Boothby is a poet from Riverside, California now living in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. His work has appeared in carte blanche, PRISM, and The Puritan, as well as two chapbooks: Reperspirations, Exhalations, Wrapt Inflections (2016, Anstruther Press) and Wave Fields (2020, Skyebound Press).

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We trespass      I have wondered
   what do I know of our ghosts      left them
       across oceans      whatever they’d tell
                                 Why remember
     we have so much we need to forget


What flowers did we dream before
           becoming departures        Our plots did not ask
        to pass on useless tongues     we gave
                 no flesh for memory’s recall       in exchange
      property offered to be our’s

One grandmother always refused
            to teach her language here     another kept
        her’s for private letters        When I arrived
                looking like us I had to talk like us       call
     this still a new world        classify me


I begin as a blank     only thing
            that’s our own       no other way to be here
      keep only what is lawful       jettison
              what doesn’t profit      accommodate myself
   ease into a silence that’s belonging

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McClelland & Stewart
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0771004478
• ISBN 13: 9780771004476
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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