| Burning Province: Poems Contributor(s): Prior, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0771072341 ISBN-13: 9780771072345 Publisher: McClelland & Stewart OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Family |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2020476262 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.7" W x 8.4" (0.25 lbs) 80 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Acerbic, moving, and formally astonishing, Michael Prior's second collection explores the enduring impact of the Japanese internment upon his family legacy and his mixed-race identity. Canada-Japan Literary Award, Winner Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, Finalist Raymond Souster Award, Longlist Amid the record-breaking wildfires that scorched British Columbia in 2015 and 2017, the poems in this collection move seamlessly between geographical and psychological landscapes, grappling with cultural trauma and mapping out complex topographies of grief, love, and inheritance: those places in time marked by generational memory when echo crosses echo. Burning Province is an elegy for a home aflame and for grandparents who had a complex relationship to it--but it is also a vivid appreciation of mono no aware: the beauty and impermanence of all living things. The fireflies stutter like an apology, Prior writes; I would be lying to you / if I didn't admit I love them. |
