Governor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second work of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as postcolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist within all times. Throughout river woman, Vermette eschews capitals and punctuation, at once disavowing the grammatical rules that have so long been imposed by Europeans on Indigenous people in a naked attempt at cultural erasure and carving out a style that resembles oral, incantatory speech. The result is a book that is at once deeply personal and politically www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins. · river woman by Katherena Vermette. Intensely political and personal, Katherena Vermette’s second book of poems, river woman, achieves the impact and appeal of the great Canadian singer-songwriters while exploring what it means to be a woman and what it means to be a river. Under her consideration, this connection, which is the heartbeat of the book, transcends metaphor, Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.
Katherena Vermette. Governor General's Award-winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette 's second work of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as postcolonial. Award-winning Meacute;tis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermettersquo;s second work of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as postcolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist. Lori Fox. Katherena Vermette, river woman. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, A human being denied water will die of thirst in three days; that same human being submerged in water will drown in three minutes. Conflicting impulses―need and power, love and suffocation, healing and destruction―are at the core of award-winning Métis poet.
Governor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second work of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as postcolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist within all times. The poems are grounded in what feels like an eternal present, documenting moments of clarity that lift the speaker (and reader) out of our preconceptions of historical time, while. river woman. by. KATHERENA VERMETTE. House of Anansi, $ Reviewed by. JESSICA RUZEK. Opening her second collection of poetry, river woman, Katherena Vermette appeals to Menominee poet Chrystos in the epigraph, I assert that poetry without politics is narcissistic. Katherena Vermette. Governor General's Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette 's second work of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as postcolonial action.
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