Scientific Marvel
Poems
Seiten
2024
House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada (Verlag)
978-1-4870-1225-0 (ISBN)
House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada (Verlag)
978-1-4870-1225-0 (ISBN)
Winner, 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry
Winner, League of Canadian Poets Raymond Souster Award
Finalist, League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
CBC Best Book of 2024
Marked by rhythmic drive, humour, and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Firmly grounded in the local, the arresting poems in Chimwemwe Undi’s debut collection, Scientific Marvel, are preoccupied with Winnipeg in the way a Winnipegger is preoccupied with Winnipeg, the way a poet might be preoccupied with herself: through history and immigration; race and gender; anxieties and observation. Marked by rhythmic drive, humour and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the west. Taking its title from a beauty school in downtown Winnipeg that closed in 2017 after nearly 100 years of operation, Scientific Marvel approaches the prairies from the point of view of a person who is often erased from the prairies’ idea of itself. “I mean my country the way / my country means my country / and what else is there to say? / I am bad and brown / and trying. Nothing here / belongs to me or could / or ever will.”
This is poetry that touches on challenging topics—from queerness and colonialism to racism, climate rage, and decolonization, while never straying far from specific lived experience, the so-called ‘smaller’ questions: about self, art, dance parties and pop culture, relationships and love.
Winner, League of Canadian Poets Raymond Souster Award
Finalist, League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
CBC Best Book of 2024
Marked by rhythmic drive, humour, and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Firmly grounded in the local, the arresting poems in Chimwemwe Undi’s debut collection, Scientific Marvel, are preoccupied with Winnipeg in the way a Winnipegger is preoccupied with Winnipeg, the way a poet might be preoccupied with herself: through history and immigration; race and gender; anxieties and observation. Marked by rhythmic drive, humour and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the west. Taking its title from a beauty school in downtown Winnipeg that closed in 2017 after nearly 100 years of operation, Scientific Marvel approaches the prairies from the point of view of a person who is often erased from the prairies’ idea of itself. “I mean my country the way / my country means my country / and what else is there to say? / I am bad and brown / and trying. Nothing here / belongs to me or could / or ever will.”
This is poetry that touches on challenging topics—from queerness and colonialism to racism, climate rage, and decolonization, while never straying far from specific lived experience, the so-called ‘smaller’ questions: about self, art, dance parties and pop culture, relationships and love.
CHIMWEMWE UNDI is a poet, editor, and lawyer living and writing on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her work has appeared in Brick, Border Crossings, Canadian Literature and BBC World, among others. Her debut collection, Scientific Marvel, received the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry. She is Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.03.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Concord |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 203 mm |
| Gewicht | 167 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Reisen ► Bildbände | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4870-1225-X / 148701225X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4870-1225-0 / 9781487012250 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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