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The milk of amnesia
- Title
- The milk of amnesia / Danielle Janess.
- Author
- Janess, Danielle, 1978-
- Publication
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- 99 pages : illustrations; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "Danielle Janess's debut poetry collection resists the erasing effects of war, nationalism, and forced migration. Following the speaker's arduous relocation to a twenty-first-century Europe still etched with the wounds of the past, the poems take on daring forms and language, becoming theatre, film clips, photographs, and dance, all embodied by a cast of characters marked by the violence of the last century. Arrested in Warsaw within the first twenty days of the Second World War, Janess's maternal grandfather was sent to a Soviet gulag where he survived for three years before joining the Free Polish Army in Russia and later the battle of Monte Cassino in the Italian Campaign. Many of the poems in Milk of Amnesia grow from the soil of Warsaw and Berlin, where the poet-speaker catapults herself and her young child in an effort to locate and unearth their family inheritance. Drawing from the tradition of poetry of witness, Milk of Amnesia performs a visionary resistance, lit with signposts in a charged atmosphere. An address to our ongoing struggles with historical memory, these poems act as both artifact of and antidote to our time."--
- Series Statement
- The Hugh MacLennan poetry series
- Uniform Title
- Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Note
- Poems.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Language (note)
- Text in English.
- Call Number
- JFC 21-59
- ISBN
- 9780228003458
- 0228003458
- OCLC
- 1141518073
- Author
- Janess, Danielle, 1978- author.
- Title
- The milk of amnesia / Danielle Janess.
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Hugh MacLennan poetry seriesHugh MacLennan poetry series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Language
- Text in English.
- Chronological Term
- 1939-2099
- Other Form:
- Online version: Janess, Danielle, 1978- Milk of amnesia. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021 0228004659 9780228004653 (OCoLC)1200500881
- Research Call Number
- JFC 21-59