Eat salt / gaze at the ocean : poems / Junie Désil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Désil, Junie, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

85 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Eat salt, gaze at the ocean

Gaze at the ocean

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, British Columbia : Talonbooks, [2020]

Summary:

"This poetry collection explores the themes of Black sovereignty, Haitian sovereignty, and Black lives, using the Haitian (original) Zombie as a metaphor for the condition of and treatment of Black bodies. Interspersed with info about Zombies, Haiti, policies etc., is the author's personal narrative of growing up Black, Haitian, of immigrant parents on stolen land. The collection is divided in two parts, The first half focusing on zombies and the second half focusing on ocean/water and the violent crossing as experienced by enslaved folks. The collection draws on and is influenced by the works of Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robyn Maynard and other scholars. Finally, the title of the collection references the "cure" for reversing the process of becoming a zombie."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 80-81).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781772012651

1772012653

OCLC:

1141943698

Publisher Number:

99986122802