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Old gods / Conor Kerr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kerr, Conor, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (87 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Gibsons, British Columbia : Nightwood Editions, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Métis Ukrainian writer Conor Kerr's sharp and incisive poems move restlessly across landscapes and time. Conor Kerr's poetry is in constant motion. 4Runners streak through the night, racing with coyotes and roving across the land. Buses travel from town to town, from one memory to another, from past to present. Friends and lovers search for each other on Instagram and find nothing. And always the natural world travels alongside: the watching magpies, woodpeckers and cedar waxwings, the coyotes and porcupines. Family is the crisp wings of mallard ducks flying at dawn, just as it is a game of crib, a Mario Kart race, a dance party. Old Gods defies colonialism on the Prairies. Kerr situates his reader in the Métis mindset: the old gods of the land are alive within the rivers, the birds, the hills and the prairies that surround us, and they'll always be here."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- I. Just Passing Through
- Old Hunting Dogs
- Confessions
- The Sun's Always Shining on Saskatchewan
- Howling Wolves
- Dan of the North
- Big Coyote, That One
- Long Days (I)
- The Big Explosion
- I Dream of My Family
- Prairie Dust
- Long Days (II)
- Crows Are the Magpies of 2022
- Mental Health
- Worth It
- Bird's-Eye View
- Just Passing Through
- Edmonton to Vancouver
- Edmonton to Saskatoon
- On the Visiting Trail
- Drayton Valley to Edmonton
- Buffalo Pound to Saskatoon
- Edmonton to Lethbridge
- Drayton Valley to Everywhere in Central Alberta
- Papaschase IR 136 to Moose Jaw to Calgary
- II. Métis Magic
- Who the Fuck Stole My Catalytic Converter?
- cihcicâpânâskos
- And on the Fourth Day, God Created…
- Another Day in Treaty 6
- iskwesisihkân
- An Ode to Graduate Studies
- Finding Scrip
- Wishing on a Walleye
- Métis Magic
- Pandemic Coping Mechanisms
- Buffalo Pound
- Meatball Subs
- III. Old Gods
- Camping
- Forgotten Gravesites
- Memory
- Mill Creek
- Investments
- Cook County Cowboys and the Land They Two-Step On
- The God of Willow and Muskeg
- Wednesday Wing Night
- Memories of Birds
- Urban Hunter
- Winter Songs
- The North Sask
- Skunk City
- Those Birds That Hit Your Window
- Old Gods
- What Do You Believe In?
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-88971-447-9
- OCLC:
- 1376192999
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