I‘m kind of addicted to my current novel (GAME CHANGER by Rachel Reid), so it seemed safer to read poetry over breakfast. Trouble is, I‘m also super in love with A REALLY GOOD BROWN GIRL by Marilyn Dumont. At least it‘s a BIT easier to tear myself away from a book with more natural stopping places.
This is gonna stay with me.
Sunday afternoon outdoor reading stack, featuring this week‘s poetry collection (as recced by @llwheeler ) and a Raspberry Radler from Waterloo Brewing Co (in another brewery‘s can-shaped glass).
pickThis is an excellent poetry collection, and I definitely recommend it. Marilyn Dumont is a talented poet with powerful and important stuff to say. My favourite poems include Squaw Poems, Helen Betty Osborne, Letter to Sir John A. Macdonald, and The Devil's Language.
1. A really good brown girl by Dumont (in Uni).
2. Grey
3. Octaviano (yes, that Octavian, aka Augustus).
4. After reading The Bear and the Nightingale, domovoi, a protective house spirit. Along these lines gnomes are pretty cool. But I like werewolves and merpeople a lot too...gah, faves are hard!
5. Did it! *✋*
#friyayintro @jess.how
#backtoreading Picking A favourite!? Never gonna happen. Here are some #alltimefavorite S.
"and this country is still quarreling over unity,"
#WeNeedDiverseBooks
Rereading this one now after today's #seasonsreadings2016 prompt #poetry made me think of it (and the #diversereads prompt I missed a few days ago). I haven't read it since undergrad; it was one of the first if not the first works I read by an indigenous author. I've read more since but still need to read a lot more.
pickI don't make time often enough to read #poetry, but this collection from the 80s still hits home today. Dumont writes about native identity, societal expectations, love, and family with such a lyrical clarity that the words sing on the pages. Gorgeous.
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