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river woman (Paperback)
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river woman (Paperback)
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Governor General's Award-winning Metis poet and acclaimed novelist
Katherena Vermette's second collection, river woman, explores her
relationship to nature - its destructive power and beauty, its
timelessness, and its place in human history. Award-winning Metis
poet and novelist Katherena Vermette's second book of poetry, river
woman, examines and celebrates love as decolonial action. Here love
is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma,
and trauma is understood to exist within all times. The poems are
grounded in what feels like an eternal present, documenting moments
of clarity that lift the speaker (and reader) out of the illusion
of linear experience. This is what we mean when we describe a work
of art as being timeless. Like the river they speak to, these poems
return again and again to the same source in search of new ways to
reconstruct what has been lost. Vermette suggests that it's through
language and the body particularly through language as it lives
inside the body that a fragmented self might resurface as once
again whole. This idea of breaking apart and coming back together
is woven throughout the collection as the speaker contemplates the
ongoing negotiation between the city, the land, and the water, and
as she finds herself falling into trust with the ones she loves.
Vermette honours the river as a woman her destructive power and
beauty, her endurance, and her stories. These poems sing from a
place where "words / transcend ceremony / into everyday" and
"nothing / is inanimate."
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