Acerbic, moving, and formally astonishing, Michael Prior's second collection explores the enduring impact of the Japanese internment upon his family legacy and his mixed-race identity.
Canada-Japan Literary Award, Winner
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, Winner
Raymond Souster Award, Shortlist
Amid the record-breaking wildfires that scorched British Columbia in 2015 and 2017, the poems in this collection move seamlessly between geographical and psychological landscapes, grappling with cultural trauma and mapping out complex topographies of grief, love, and inheritance: those places in time marked by generational memory "when echo crosses echo."
Burning Province is an elegy for a home aflame and for grandparents who had a complex relationship to it--but it is also a vivid appreciation of mono no aware: the beauty and impermanence of all living things. "The fireflies stutter like an apology," Prior writes; "I would be lying to you / if I didn't admit I love them."
| ISBN: | 9780771072345 |
| Publication date: | 24th March 2020 |
| Author: | Michael Prior |
| Publisher: | McClelland & Stewart |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 80 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry Narrative theme: Love and relationships Narrative theme: Sense of place |
Acerbic, moving, and formally astonishing, Michael Prior's second collection explores the enduring impact of the Japanese internment upon his family legacy and his mixed-race identity.Canada-Japan Literary Award, WinnerDorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, WinnerRaymond Souster Award, ShortlistAmid the record-breaking wildfires that scorched British Columbia in 2015 and 2017, the poems in this collection move seamlessly between geographical and psychological landscapes, grappling with cultural trauma and mapping out complex topographies of grief, love, and inheritance: those places in time marked by generational memory "when echo crosses echo." Burning Province is an elegy for a home aflame and for grandparents who had a complex relationship to it--but it is also a vivid appreciation of mono no aware: the beauty and impermanence of all living things.
Burning Province features in the following genres: Poetry, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Sense of place
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Burning Province was written by Michael Prior and published by McClelland & Stewart
Burning Province has 80 pages
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