Welcome to Litsy!

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).

This 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.

I 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.