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Heating the Outdoors
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Series: Literature in Translation
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ISBN13: 9781771668149
Publisher: Bookhug Pr
Published: Mar 7 2023
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.12 Depth: 7.56
Language: French
Winner of the 2020 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Published Poetry in French
You're the clump of blackened spruce
that lights my gasoline-soaked heart
to quench yourself in my crème-soda
ancestral spirit
Irreverent and transcendent, lyrical and slang, Heating the Outdoors is an endlessly surprising new work from award-winning poet Marie-Andrée Gill.
In these micropoems, writing and love are acts of decolonial resilience. Rooted in Nitassinan, the territory and ancestral home of the Ilnu Nation, they echo the Ilnu oral tradition in Gill's interrogation and reclamation of the language, land, and interpersonal intimacies distorted by imperialism. They navigate her interior landscape--of heartbreak, humor, and, ultimately, unrelenting light--amidst the boreal geography.
Heating the Outdoors describes the yearnings for love, the domestic monotony of post-breakup malaise, and the awkward meeting of exes. As the lines between interior and exterior begin to blur, Gill's poems, here translated by Kristen Renee Miller, become a record of the daily rituals and ancient landscapes that inform her identity not only as a lover, then ex, but also as an Ilnu and Québécoise woman.
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