In his commanding poetry debut, Wolf Sonnets, R. P. LaRose Indigenizes the sonnet, undoing its classical constraints and retooling the form for current political circumstances. Packed with family lore, these poems reflect on how deeply we can trust the terms we use to construct our identity. A proud citizen of the Métis Nation, LaRose even questions his right to identify as such: “I was made in someone else's home,” he writes. Wolf Sonnets is verse obsessed with names, infinity, numbers, categor...
All Wrong Horses on Fire that Go Away in the Rain (Crow Said Poetry, #14)
by Sarain Soonias
Childhood Thoughts and Water (Modern Indigenous Voices)
by John McDonald
Our Hearts Are a Burial Ground (Modern Indigenous Voices)
by Lesley Belleau
In this complex, at times dark, poetry collection from Inuk author Jamesie Fournier, readers are taken through the recesses of a character struggling with inner demons whispering into his mind. As he attempts to overcome his inner turmoil within a Colonial and contemporary system that oppresses him, the speaker guides readers through verse both ethereal and imagistic. Echoing artists as varied as Margaret Laurence and The Velvet Underground, this sweeping collection of bilingual verse deals with...