Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong by Wong, Rita
Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong by Wong, Rita

Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong

Current, Climate is an introduction to the environmental and social-justice poetry of Rita Wong. Selections from her...
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Author: Rita Wong
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Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong by Wong, Rita

Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong

$43.00
Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong by Wong, Rita

Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong

$43.00
Author: Rita Wong
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Current, Climate is an introduction to the environmental and social-justice poetry of Rita Wong. Selections from her poetic oeuvre show how Wong has responded to local and global inequities with outrage, linguistic inventiveness, and sometimes humour.

Wong's poetry explores the meeting places of life, language, and land--from downtown Vancouver to the headwaters of the Columbia River. Her poems are deeply attentive to places and their names, and especially to the imposition of foreign words on the unceded Indigenous lands of what is otherwise known as British Columbia. Exhorting readers to recognize their responsibilities to the planet and to their communities, Wong's watershed poetics encompass anger, grief, wit, and hope.

Nicholas Bradley's introduction situates Wong's poetry in its literary and cultural contexts, focusing on the role of the author in a time of crisis. In Wong's case, poetry and political activism are intertwined--and profoundly connected to the land and water that sustain us. The volume concludes with an afterword by Rita Wong that calls for collective action to address the climate crisis and systemic inequities with an "economy of care and solidarity."



Author: Rita Wong
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 06/29/2021
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781771124430

About the Author
Wong, Rita: - Rita Wong is an award-winning writer of four books of poetry, her latest titled undercurrent (2015). She is co-editor of downstream: reimagining water (WLU Press 2017), nominated for the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize. She teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, on the unceded Coast Salish territories also known as Vancouver, where she learns from water.Bradley, Nicholas: - Nicholas Bradley is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. He is the editor of We Go Far Back in Time: The Letters of Earle Birney and Al Purdy, 1947-1987 (2014) and the author of Rain Shadow (2018). He is also an associate editor of the journal Canadian Literature.
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