Brine Contributor(s): Amireault, Mallory (Author) |
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ISBN: 192788652X ISBN-13: 9781927886526 Publisher: Arbeiter Ring OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Lgbt - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" |
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Publisher Description: Mallory Amirault's debut collection?Brine?is an ambitious land-metaphor; merging history and imagination, it's a work of poetry that doubles as a prose novel, an effort of interruption to long-standing Maritime coloniality. While excavating experiences of grief, violence, and shame?and unleashing those of love, joy, and belonging?the book's tide-like narrative and character-led intimacies do not avert from a violent and pervasive colonial thread. At once personal, historical, and lyric, it represents for the author a life and an ethic toward creating long-term connections with Mi?kmaq communities in their home territory. Amireault describes?Brine?as an aboiteau at the shoreline of a colonial event. Engaging the elemental and political act of arriving and departing, the story is a mechanism that slowly removes salt from the Maritimes, and points to say wound. |