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Current, climate : the poetry of Rita Wong
- Title
- Current, climate : the poetry of Rita Wong / selected with an introduction by Nicholas Bradley ; and an afterword by Rita Wong.
- Author
- Wong, Rita, 1968-
- Publication
- Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Bradley, Nicholas, 1978-
- Description
- xxiv, 76 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Current, Climate is an introduction to the environmental and social-justice poetry of Rita Wong. Selections from her poetic oeuvre show how Wong has responded to local and global inequities with outrage, linguistic inventiveness, and sometimes humour. Wong's poetry explores the meeting places of life, language, and land--from downtown Vancouver to the headwaters of the Columbia River. Her poems are deeply attentive to places and their names, and especially to the imposition of foreign words on the unceded Indigenous lands of what is otherwise known as British Columbia. Exhorting readers to recognize their responsibilities to the planet and to their communities, Wong's watershed poetics encompass anger, grief, wit, and hope. Nicholas Bradley's introduction situates Wong's poetry in its literary and cultural contexts, focusing on the role of the author in a time of crisis. In Wong's case, poetry and political activism are intertwined--and profoundly connected to the land and water that sustain us. The volume concludes with an afterword by Rita Wong."--
- Series Statement
- Laurier poetry series
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Laurier poetry series.
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Political poetry.
- Ecopoetry.
- Poetry.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-1256
- ISBN
- 9781771124430
- 1771124431
- OCLC
- 1111393104
- Author
- Wong, Rita, 1968- author, writer of afterword.
- Title
- Current, climate : the poetry of Rita Wong / selected with an introduction by Nicholas Bradley ; and an afterword by Rita Wong.
- Publisher
- Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- textstill imagecartographic image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Laurier poetry seriesLaurier poetry series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Bradley, Nicholas, 1978- editor, writer of introduction.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Wong, Rita, 1968- Poems. Selections. Current, climate. Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2021 177112444X 9781771124447 (OCoLC)1241201151
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-1256