Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong (Laurier Poetry) - Tapa blanda

Wong, Rita

 
9781771124430: Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong (Laurier Poetry)
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ISBN 10: 1771124431 ISBN 13: 9781771124430
Editorial: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2021

Sinopsis

Current, Climate is an introduction to the environmental and social-justice poetry of Rita Wong. Selections from her poetic oeuvre show how Wong has responded to local and global inequities with outrage, linguistic inventiveness, and sometimes humour. Wong's poetry explores the meeting places of life, language, and land - from downtown Vancouver to the headwaters of the Columbia River. Her poems are deeply attentive to places and their names, and especially to the imposition of foreign words on the unceded Indigenous lands of what is otherwise known as British Columbia. Exhorting readers to recognize their responsibilities to the planet and to their communities, Wong's watershed poetics encompass anger, grief, wit, and hope.

Nicholas Bradley's introduction situates Wong's poetry in its literary and cultural contexts, focusing on the role of the author in a time of crisis. In Wong's case, poetry and political activism are intertwined - and profoundly connected to the land and water that sustain us. The volume concludes with an afterword by Rita Wong.

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Acerca del autor

Rita Wong is an award-winning writer of four books of poetry, her latest titled undercurrent (2015). She is co-editor of downstream: reimagining water (WLU Press 2017), nominated for the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize. She teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, on the unceded Coast Salish territories also known as Vancouver, where she learns from water.

Nicholas Bradley is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. He is the editor of We Go Far Back in Time: The Letters of Earle Birney and Al Purdy, 1947-1987 (2014) and the author of Rain Shadow (2018). He is also an associate editor of the journal Canadian Literature.

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Editorial
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1771124431
ISBN 13 
9781771124430
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
88
Editor
Bradley Nicholas
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