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When Whales Went Back to the Water

When Whales Went Back to the Water

Baird, Lisa

Paperback

Series: Robert Kroetsch

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1772127965
ISBN13: 9781772127966
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Published: Feb 20 2025
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.82
Language: English

Steely, tender, and sensual, Lisa Baird's When Whales Went Back to the Water creates a reverent container for a broken world. These poems are hymns to living in wonder through loss, joy, motherhood's sleepless nights, domestic violence, and isolation. Offering a courageous account of queer intimate partner violence, including the impacts of femme erasure in queer communities, this book is also grounded in the tastes and textures of a new parent's everyday and is keenly interested in our capacities during personal and global catastrophe. Haunted by hawks, coyotes, frogs, and forests, the collection also speaks to the power of the beyond-human sphere in the translation and transformation of pain and sorrow. Reaching through stories of survivorship to touch on personal and collective pain with tension, nuance and care, Baird's poems remind us that grief is inextricably intertwined with love and joy.

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