Horrible dance / Avery Lake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lake, Avery, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Violence--Poetry.

Violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (72 pages)

Place of Publication:

Kingston, Ontario : Brick Books, [2022]

Summary:

2022 Governor General's Literary Award Shortlist * 2022 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry Finalist A brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory. By turns darkly comic, emotionally connected, playful, incisive, lyrical and irreverent, Lake's poems navigate a harrowing personal and political terrain with understated, expansive wisdom. Lake persistently returns us to the search for love that lies at the core of relational trauma, even as she shows us how catastrophically such a search can be derailed. This is a rare text able to hold the full velocity of a survivor's hurt and rage alongside a clear-eyed understanding of the extent and complexity of harm. In their honest accounting of a wide array of bad encounters, these poems point us, again, toward compassion, tenderness, and solidarity. can you forgive me for how you hurt me so bad -"On Shame"

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Lake, Avery Horrible Dance

ISBN:

9781771315760