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Massacre Street |
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| By (author): |
Paul Zits |
| ISBN10-13: |
0888646755 : 9780888646750 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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228x133x8mm |
| Pages: |
128 |
| Weight: |
.184 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press - March 2013 |
| List Price: |
16.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 4 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry by individual poets : Historiography : History of other lands : Canada |
| Merging poetry and historical records, Zits masterfully (re)creates a poetic view of the Frog Lake Massacre of April 2, 1885. His collage and cut-up techniques challenge the histories penned by the eventâ s recorders and reflect upon the difficult and painful complexities of past and present. He weaves together voices of MĂ©tis and First Nations participants, settlers, and military officials, using tape transcripts, historical accounts, memoirs, and footnotes to create a unique, non-narrative historiography of fragmented poetic language. This innovative work of literary montage digs deep into a historic period that continues to garner scholarly and public interest. Readers interested in poetry and Canadian history will find this an intriguing new collection. |
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Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry
2014
Canada
Winner
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AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show, Poetry and Literature
2014
United States
Winner
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Book Design of the Year - Alberta Book Awards
2014
Canada
Short-listed
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Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award
2014
Canada
Short-listed
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"For one former St. Albert author, the events spurred a book of poetry, the likes of which I’ve never seen. Now based out of Calgary, Paul Zits appears to have artistic flair. Perhaps that’s why Massacre Street seems so experimental, so creative and so captivating." - Scott Hayes, St. Albert Gazette, April 24, 2013 [Full article at http://bit.ly/17ZvHNO]
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#2 on the Calgary Herald's Fiction Bestsellers list for the week of May 4, 2013.
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#2 on the Calgary Herald's Fiction Bestsellers list for the week of May 11, 2013.
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"Zits is working very clearly in a tradition that includes work by Robert Kroetsch, Monty Reid, Aritha Van Herk, Jon Paul Fiorentino and Dennis Cooley, each of whom managed to reenergize both history and the form of ‘documentary poetics.’
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Zits] seemingly takes as his models the poetics of both Kroetsch and Cooley, falling somewhere between the lyric questioning, tall tales and the perpetual return to the beginning of Robert Kroetsch, and the collage-quilt of storytelling of Dennis Cooley. Massacre Street is a large, complex and critical document on a messy and complicated period of Canadian history. Through exhaustive research and a large curiosity, Zits manages to bring the material a new kind of life. Had only history been written so well before." rob mclennan’s blog, May 12, 2013 [Full post at http://bit.ly/19h6bBE]
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["Calgary's Paul Zits debuts powerfully with Massacre Street, which re-tells the story of the 1885 Frog Lake Massacre though poems primarily constructed using historical documents. Zits marries poetic witness to literary montage, suggesting that we have a responsibility, even when historically removed from tragedy, to reconstruct and face its horror." Jonathan Ball, Winnipeg Free Press, June 22, 2013 [Full article at http://bit.ly/11SpVav]
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"For one former St. Albert author, the events spurred a book of poetry, the likes of which I've never seen. Now based out of Calgary, Paul Zits appears to have artistic flair. Perhaps that's why Massacre Street seems so experimental, so creative and so captivating." Scott Hayes, St. Albert Gazette, April 24, 2013 [Full article at http://bit.ly/17ZvHNO]
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"Zits is working very clearly in a tradition that includes work by Robert Kroetsch, Monty Reid, Aritha Van Herk, Jon Paul Fiorentino and Dennis Cooley, each of whom managed to reenergize both history and the form of 'documentary poetics.'. [Zits] seemingly takes as his models the poetics of both Kroetsch and Cooley, falling somewhere between the lyric questioning, tall tales and the perpetual return to the beginning of Robert Kroetsch, and the collage-quilt of storytelling of Dennis Cooley.. Massacre Street is a large, complex and critical document on a messy and complicated period of Canadian history.. Through exhaustive research and a large curiosity, Zits manages to bring the material a new kind of life. Had only history been written so well before." rob mclennan's blog, May 12, 2013 [Full post at http://bit.ly/19h6bBE]
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"Calgary's Paul Zits debuts powerfully with Massacre Street, which re-tells the story of the 1885 Frog Lake Massacre though poems primarily constructed using historical documents. Zits marries poetic witness to literary montage, suggesting that we have a responsibility, even when historically removed from tragedy, to reconstruct and face its horror." Jonathan Ball, Winnipeg Free Press, June 22, 2013 [Full article at http://bit.ly/11SpVav]
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"The book is constantly moving, searching, interrupting and questioning everything that is being presented, resulting in an unsettled book on an unfinished question, and one that attempts not to assign blame, but attempts to discover the correct questions.... Massacre Street is a large, complex and critical document on a messy and complicated period of Canadian history.... Through exhaustive research and a large curiosity, Zits manages to bring the material a new kind of life. Had only history been written so well before." rob mclennan, January 3, 2014 [Full post at http://dusie.blogspot.ca/2014/01/a-best-of-list-of-2013-canadian-poetry.html]
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"...Zits' book juxtaposes fragments of others' writing to invite readers to ponder the concept of reconstituting history when the low fog of racism attends cultural difference and shrouds events, when personal investments of witnesses to that history are so divergent, and when oral and written versions of events tell incommensurable stories." -- Susan Gingell -- 20140701
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