Wellwater : poems /
"The poems in Wellwater, Karen Solie's sixth collection, explore the intersection of cultural, economic, and personal ideas of "value," addressing housing, economic and environmental crisis, and aging and its incumbent losses. In an era of accelerating inequality, places many of...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Toronto, Ontario] :
Anansi,
2025.
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| Summary: | "The poems in Wellwater, Karen Solie's sixth collection, explore the intersection of cultural, economic, and personal ideas of "value," addressing housing, economic and environmental crisis, and aging and its incumbent losses. In an era of accelerating inequality, places many of us thought of as home have become unaffordable. In "Basement Suite," the faux-utopian economy of Airbnb suggests people with property "share" it with us and, presumably, we should be grateful. In "Parables of the Rat" the speaker feels affinity with scavengers while also wanting the rats gone. Having grown up in Saskatchewan on a small family farm, Solie sees the economic and environmental crises as inseparable. Climate change has made small farming increasingly untenable, allowing overbearing corporate control of food production. But hope, Solie argues, is as necessary to addressing the crises of our time as bearing witness, in poems that celebrate wonder and persistence in the non-human world. Tamarack forests in Newfoundland that grow inches over hundreds of years, the suddenly thriving pronghorn antelope, or a new, unidentified and ineradicable climbing vine, all hint at renewal, and a way to move forward."-- |
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| Item Description: | Previously published: Montreal, QC: Vallum Society for Education in Arts & Letters, 2023. |
| Physical Description: | 98 pages ; 21 cm Issued also in electronic format. |
| Awards: | Governor General's Literary Awards: Poetry, 2025 ; T.S. Eliot Prize: Winner, 2025 ; T.S. Eliot Prize: Short List, 2025 ; Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection Short List, 2025 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-95). |
| ISBN: | 9781487013400 148701340X |