Resisting Canada

An Anthology of New Poetry

Edited by Nyla Matuk
Categories: Poetry
Publisher: Véhicule Press
Paperback : 9781550655339, 280 pages, September 2019

Description

Resisting Canada addresses, among other things, Indigenous agency, cultural belonging, environmental anxieties, and racial privilege. These poems ask us to judge and resist a statecraft that refuses to acknowledge past and present wrongs. Contains work by Jordan Abel, James Arthur, Marie Annharte Baker, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Wayde Compton, Beth Cuthand, Rosanna Deerchild, Marilyn Dumont, Marvin Francis, Louise Bernice Halfe-Sky Dancer, Jim Johnstone, El Jones, Christine Leclerc, Canisia Lubrin, Lee Maracle, Sachiko Murakami, Arleen Paré, Michael Prior, Janet Rogers, and Armand Garnet Ruffo.