The salmon shanties : a cascading song cycle / Harold Rhenisch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhenisch, Harold, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

171 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Cascading song cycle

Place of Publication:

Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Harold Rhenisch's poems balance the settler and Indigenous experiences of land and water in the Pacific Northwest. A collection of shanties (songs) laid out in couplets that move between English and Chinook Wawa, The Salmon Shanties celebrates a poetic tradition deeply rooted on the West Coast. Harold Rhenisch explores memories of people, place, and of returning home, speaking the land's names as a music of its own and creating a series of aural maps. Imbued with rhythms of Secwepemc grass dances, the colloquial chatter of the Canadian poet Al Purdy, and the voice of poet and historian Charles Lillard, Rhenisch's work sings of roots to the land lifted up by the sea into the sky--as if Ezra Pound had sung of Cascadia instead of Europe. Harold Rhenisch has published 33 books of poetry, fiction, memoir, translation, criticism, and nonfiction since 1981. He has twice won both the CBC Prize and the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize and received the George Ryga Prize for Social Responsibility in Literature. about the series Publishing new and established authors, Oskana Poetry & Poetics offers both contemporary poetry at its best and probing discussions of poetry's cultural role. Oskana is the Cree word for "bones," and we use it with the blessing of Elder Noel Starblanket. The name reflects our commitment to speak to the deepest and most urgent issues of our time, including environmental crisis and Indigenous justice."

"Harold Rhenisch's poems balance the settler and Indigenous experiences of land and water in the Pacific Northwest. A collection of shanties (songs) laid out in couplets that move between English and Chinook Wawa, The Salmon Shanties celebrates a poetic tradition deeply rooted on the West Coast. Harold Rhenisch explores memories of people, place, and of returning home, speaking the land's names as a music of its own and creating a series of aural maps. Imbued with rhythms of Secwepemc grass dances, the colloquial chatter of the Canadian poet Al Purdy, and the voice of poet and historian Charles Lillard, Rhenisch's work sings of roots to the land lifted up by the sea into the sky--as if Ezra Pound had sung of Cascadia instead of Europe. Harold Rhenisch has published 33 books of poetry, fiction, memoir, translation, criticism, and nonfiction since 1981. He has twice won both the CBC Prize and the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize and received the George Ryga Prize for Social Responsibility in Literature. about the series Publishing new and established authors, Oskana Poetry & Poetics offers both contemporary poetry at its best and probing discussions of poetry's cultural role. Oskana is the Cree word for "bones," and we use it with the blessing of Elder Noel Starblanket. The name reflects our commitment to speak to the deepest and most urgent issues of our time, including environmental crisis and Indigenous justice."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Poems.

Includes glossary of chinook wawa.

Other Format:

Online version: Rhenisch, Harold, 1958- Salmon shanties.

ISBN:

9781779400154

1779400152

OCLC:

1430653956

Publisher Number:

90100509034