Wartime Measures
Poems
ISBN-13: 9780771047862
Contributor(s): Michael Prior
Subject: Poetry
Publisher Imprint: Mcclelland & Stewart
Publication Date: 23-03-2027
Format: Paperback
Availability: Not yet published
£14.99
About the book
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.'