Undoing hours / Selina Boan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boan, Selina, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

96 pages : portrait ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Gibsons, BC, Canada : Nightwood Editions, 2021.

Summary:

"Selina Boan's debut poetry collection, Undoing Hours, considers the various ways we undo, inherit, reclaim and (re)learn. Boan's poems emphasize sound and breath; they tell stories of meeting family, of experiencing love and heartbreak, and of learning new ways to express and understand the world around her through Nêhiyawêwan. As a settler and urban nehiyaw who grew up disconnected from her father's family and community, Boan turns to language as one way to challenge the impact of assimilation policies and colonization on her own being and the landscapes she inhabits. Exploring the nexus of language and power, the effects of which are both far-reaching and deeply intimate, these poems consider the ways language impacts the way we view and construct the world around us. Boan also explores what it means to be a white settler-nehiyaw woman actively building community and working to ground herself through language and relationships. Boan writes from a place of linguistic tension, tenderness and care, creating space to ask questions and to imagine intimate decolonial futures."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The plot so far

Meet cree: a practical guide to language

Morning in our apartment, a small, wet funeral

Ongoing conversations with my acne

A run, a burn, a beck

In six, the seasons

How to find your father

Love poem on a break

My mother's oracle cards said

Body humour

Small talk

In cree there is no word for half/brother

Inside this hour / another hour inside / another hour

Minimal pairs are words holding hands

What you miss doesn't always matter and vice versa

Ongoing conversations with niton

Alter, ego

With love

Emails with nohtawiy

Campaign for my body's mess

2.1.a questions and answers

Email drafts to nohtawiy

I didn't know the future would be another love poem

On wanting

Suck it up <3

Run the hurt

[≤][∩]ε°

Have you ever fallen in love with a day?

All you can is the best you can

Ongoing conversations with niteh.

Notes:

Poems.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Boan, Selina. Undoing hours.

ISBN:

9780889713963

0889713960

OCLC:

1229052486

Publisher Number:

99989367929