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Wartime Measures: Poems

Wartime Measures: Poems

Prior, Michael

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date March 23, 2027

ISBN10: 077104786X
ISBN13: 9780771047862
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: Mar 23 2027
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.81
Language: English
A fierce meditation on the intimate costs of state violence--grief, inheritance, and how to caretake what remains.

Drawing on his own family history, Michael Prior's third collection examines the legacies of the dispossession, displacement, and incarceration of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Here, the landscapes of British Columbia are haunted by both the beauty of Japanese sumi-e paintings and the terror of state violence, while history flicker[s] through / the slanting thicket / like words whispered / to be misheard / in a classroom game/of telephone.

In language at once sonorous and precise, Wartime Measures asks what can be written that won't make miniatures of grief, and reckons with questions about authenticity, elegy, generational memory, and the self, measuring the moments when light aligns with shadow, was with is.

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