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list price: $21.99
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
category: Poetry
published: Mar 2013
ISBN:9780888646750
publisher: The University of Alberta Press
imprint: University of Alberta Press

Massacre Street

by Paul Zits

tagged: canadian
Description

Merging poetry and historical records, Zits masterfully (re)creates a poetic view of the Frog Lake Massacre of April 2, 1885. His collage and cut-up techniques challenge the histories penned by the event’s recorders and reflect upon the difficult and painful complexities of past and present. He weaves together voices of Métis and First Nations participants, settlers, and military officials, using tape transcripts, historical accounts, memoirs, and footnotes to create a unique, non-narrative historiography of fragmented poetic language. This innovative work of literary montage digs deep into a historic period that continues to garner scholarly and public interest. Readers interested in poetry and Canadian history will find this an intriguing new collection.

About the Author
Paul Zits is a poet whose work has been widely published in various literary journals, including Canadian Literature and Arc Poetry Magazine. He lives in Calgary.
Awards
  • Short-listed, Book Design of the Year - Alberta Book Publishing Awards
  • Winner, Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry
  • Short-listed, Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award
  • Winner, AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show, Poetry and Literature
Editorial Review

"...Zits' book juxtaposes fragments of others' writing to invite readers to ponder the concept of reconstituting history when the low fog of racism attends cultural difference and shrouds events, when personal investments of witnesses to that history are so divergent, and when oral and written versions of events tell incommensurable stories."

— Susan Gingell
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