| Children of Air India: Un/Authorized Exhibits and Interjections Contributor(s): Saklikar, Renée Sarojini (Author) |
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ISBN: 0889712875 ISBN-13: 9780889712874 Publisher: Blewointment OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2013455160 |
| Series: Blewointment Books |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.40 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: children of air india is a series of elegiac sequences exploring the nature of individual loss, situated within public trauma. The work is animated by a proposition: that violence, both personal and collective, produces continuing sonar, an echolocation that finds us, even when we choose to be unaware or indifferent. This collection breaks new ground in its approach to the saga that is Canada/Air India, an event and its aftermath that is both over-reported and under-represented in our national psyche. 329 deaths. 82 Children. Canada's worst mass murder. The accused acquitted. What does it mean to be Canadian and lose someone in Air India Flight 182? Why does 9/11 resonate more strongly with Canadians than June 23, 1985? The poems in this book search out answers in the everything/ness and nothing/ness of an act and its aftermath, revealing a voice that re-defines and re-visions. Air India never happened. Air India always happens. |
Contributor Bio(s): Saklikar, Renee Sarojini: - Renée Sarojini Saklikar writes thecanadaproject, a life-long poem chronicle that includes poetry, fiction, and essays. Work from thecanadaproject appears in literary journals, newspapers, and anthologies, including The Literary Review of Canada, The Vancouver Review, Geist, Poetry is Dead, SubTerrain, ARC Poetry Magazine, The Georgia Straight, and Ryga, a journal of provocations. The first completed series from thecanadaproject is a book length poem, children of air india, (Nightwood Editions, 2013) about the bombing of Air India Flight 182, recently nominated as a finalist for the BC Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. |
