Burning province : poems /
Acerbic, moving and formally astonishing, Michael Prior's second collection explores the enduring impact of the Japanese internment upon his family legacy and his mixed-race identity. Amid the record-breaking wildfires that scorched British Columbia in 2015 and 2017, the poems in this collectio...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Toronto :
McClelland & Stewart,
[2020]
|
Table of Contents:
- I
- A Hundred and Fifty Pounds
- Self-Portrait as a Portrait of My Grandfather, December 8, 1941
- Auction
- Theseus's Ship
- Light and Years
- Mute Swans, Yellow Irises
- Tashme
- Richmond
- My Pronunciation Was Wrong
- Portrait of My Grandmother as the Burning Province
- Wake
- In Cloud Country
- Whether
- Province
- Grandfathers' Axes
- II
- Steveston
- Pastoral
- Vole
- White Noise Machine
- Minoru
- My Father's Birthday Is the Day Before Mine
- White Noise Machine
- Poem After the Gift of an Ammonite
- New Year
- Salamander
- Never Been Better
- Campanology
- The Night
- Tashme
- The Light from Canada
- Georgic
- Wakeful Things.