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Title: |
You Might Be Sorry You Read This |
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| By (author): |
Michelle Poirier Brown |
| ISBN10-13: |
1772126039 : 9781772126037 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
228x152x5mm |
| Pages: |
104 |
| Weight: |
.120 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press - March 2022 |
| List Price: |
15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry |
| You Might Be Sorry You Read This is a stunning debut, revealing how breaking silences and reconciling identity can refine anger into something both useful and beautiful. A poetic memoir that looks unflinchingly at childhood trauma (both incestuous rape and surviving exposure in extreme cold), it also tells the story of coming to terms with a hidden Indigenous identity when the poet discovered her Métis heritage at age 38. This collection is a journey of pain, belonging, hope, and resilience. The confessional poems are polished yet unpretentious, often edgy but humorous; they explore trauma yet prioritize the poetâ s story. Honouring the complexities of Indigenous identity and the raw experiences of womanhood, mental illness, and queer selfhood, these narratives carry weight. They tell us â You need / only be the simple / expression of the divine / intent / that is your life.â There is a lifetime in these poems. |
| Table of Contents: |
| The Father I Had; God Was a Baby; A Child's Book of Holy Services; Her Breath on My Face; Other Side of the Glass; Effect on Her Throat; The House on Strathnaver Avenue; Mothers Who Know; The Thing About Snow; Photograph; Under the Covers; The Girls I Grew Up With Are Everywhere; Short Change; After the Test; Walk on the Left-Hand Side; 5:53 PM; A Perspective on Women; Collard Greens; Lasts; I'm Allowed to Have Whatever Kind of Father I Want; Intimacy; On the Porch; At Times, My Teeth Chatter about face; What It's Like to Have My Face; Understanding My Face; Wake; A Fragile Defiance; Smoke; Winnipeg Trip; Commitment; Two Mornings, 2018; Boxed; Those I Call Friends; Duck Ugly; Beneficiaries of a Genocide; Slow; Sometimes You Learn Things Quite Late in the Game; Something Purple; what it is like to be this extreme and appear normal; The Other Grandmother; Self-Portrait of the Poet; Addendum; Poetic statement; Acknowledgements. |
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"Honouring the complexities of Indigenous identity and the raw experiences of womanhood, mental illness, and queer selfhood, the poems in Michelle Poirier Brown's You Might Be Sorry You Read This reveal how breaking silences and reconciling identity can refine anger into something both useful and beautiful." -- 49th Shelf, 28 February 2022
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