![]() ![]() Vermette suggests that it’s through language and the body - particularly through language as it lives inside the body - that a fragmented self might resurface as once again whole. Like the river they speak to, these poems return again and again to the same source in search of new ways to reconstruct what has been lost. This is what we mean when we describe a work of art as being “timeless.” ![]() 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 never losing a connection to history. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist within all times. 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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