Lot /
In Lot, award-winning poet and essayist Sarah de Leeuw returns to the landscape of her early girlhood to consider the racial complexities of colonial violence in those spaces. Following loosely as a companion to Skeena (Caitlin Press, 2015), Lot is written entirely of couplets, mirroring the two mai...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Qualicum Beach, British Columbia :
Caitlin Press,
[2022].
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| Summary: | In Lot, award-winning poet and essayist Sarah de Leeuw returns to the landscape of her early girlhood to consider the racial complexities of colonial violence in those spaces. Following loosely as a companion to Skeena (Caitlin Press, 2015), Lot is written entirely of couplets, mirroring the two main islands of Haida Gwaii, and draws on lyric traditions, assemblage and investigative poetry techniques to reimagine geological and anthropological data, reread colonial documents and interrogate the role of language in centering stories of white supremacy on and about the islands. Written in a time of ostensible Truth and Reconciliation in lands now called Canada, a time when the Government of British Columbia has declared support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples but continues to arrest Indigenous peoples in their homes and on unceded lands, Lot draws a firm, and yet poetic, line between historic and present-day white-Euro-colonial violence. Through structure, form and sound, the poems in Lot insist on the possibilities of poetry to create better worlds, to utter something anew. |
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| Physical Description: | 176 pages : portrait ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781773860763 1773860763 |