The gospel of breaking / Jillian Christmas.
The gospel of breaking / Jillian Christmas.
Alternate Title
:
Breaking.
By
:
Christmas, Jillian, 1983-
Publication Date
:
2020
Publication Information
:
Vancouver, B.C. : Arsenal Pulp Press,
Physical Description
:
103 p.
Subject Term
:
Canadian poetry.
Canadian literature.
Poetry.
Summary
:
In The Gospel of Breaking, Jillian Christmas confirms what followers of her performance and artistic curation have long known: there is magic in her words. Befitting someone who "speaks things into being" Christmas extracts from family history, queer lineage, and the political landscape of a racialized life to create a rich, softly defiant collection of poems. Christmas draws a circle around the things she calls "holy": the family line that cannot find its root but survived to fill the skies with radiant flesh; the body, broken and unbroken and broken and new again; the lover lost, the friend lost, and the loss itself; and the hands that hold them all with brilliant, tender care. Expansive and beautiful, these poems allow readers to swim in Jillian Christmas' mother-tongue and to dream at her shores.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781551527970
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 819.1 C46 | Checked In |