Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent | 
pick2016: the first time that a debut collection won the Griffin Poetry Prize, which is the world's most generous poetry award. ($65,000 each for an annual Canadian and international winner.) Howard's work is rooted in activism: cultural, environmental and women's rights. Difficult and powerful #Indigenous #CanLit #poetry.
the sky a barb of blue warning
everything abdominal and yet to be emptied
in a daffodil chorus of posthumous laughter
this clapboard passport
where Wordsworth is a doll
The unsubstantial structure melts the embryonic / psalms of heaven, all lushly punk and pyrotechnic
[photo: my garden on May 6, 2015]
I came into being / with Jack pine thieves in the heronry / like Nanabozho I lost / my vision to a covenant / of ducks in vertigo / whipped a birch / to mark my name
#CanLit #Indigenous #poetry
There.
Over there.
The sigh almost silenced.
- Steinian Aphasia
[I'm reading poetry while my sister knits. She just sighed with indecision about how to proceed on the hat she's making when I read those lines. We're having a good morning.]
pickStunning. Hard to believe this is a first book. Accomplished, difficult, gorgeous. If you read poetry, you need to read this.
Sunday soccer and I remembered to bring a book this time. Recent winner of the prestigious Griffin Award. Have only heard great things about this one.
