Waking Occupations
Marilyn Stanley
, Jude Castillo
, P. Thompson
, Linda Leitch
, Joshua Lewis
, Lauren Seal
, Natasa Ilic
, Barry Kazimer
, Deb Philippon
, Dawn Macdonald
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Sarah Schwartz
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Andrea Pole
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Kelly Pedro
, LJ Law
, Stephanie Baird
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Eli Cherney
, Pearl Pirie
, Noelle Walsh
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Swagi Desai
, Chris Carvalho
, Benita Hartwell
, Julie Kaniak
, Holly Elisabeth
, Jess Clausen
, Phyllis VanDusen
, Melissa Kohlman
, Kim Wiggins
, Randi Ann Doll
, Karen Kendrick
, Elizabeth Ivanovich
, Maria Mclean
, Heather Belliveau
, Astrid Egger
, Susan Haldane
, Kevin Smith
, Christopher Evans
, Robert Hykawy
, Sonia Adams
, Janice Cournoyer
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, David White
, Teira Stauth
, Lise Gaston
, Nancy Daoust
, Joann Horgan
, Rebecca Dixon
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This astonishing new collection of poems contemplates our obligations to live in a creative, generative, and revolutionary way amid a cascade of global contingencies.
In a four-part meditation on what it means to live on occupied land and in colonial time, the subject of these poems has moved beyond arriving and departing and wakes each day to meet her commitments and to heal from complicities, exclusions, difficult truths and the pandemic of forgetting. It follows the figure of the female artist as a time-travelling woman, embodied by mother and daughter, through the gallery of memory. The poems enact brief encounters with objects, events, and works of art that hold us accountable. Finally, a set of shadow elegies mourn what the next generation has already lost, while searching for traces of the wild and for ceremonies that might mend us.
