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These are Indigenous poems in a global context, tackling philosophy, history, epistemology, and placing Indigenous struggles alongside other battles, other atrocities, other genocides. Wabigoon River Poems draws upon Indigenous knowledge and traditions while pushing at the boundaries ... Read more
These are Indigenous poems in a global context, tackling philosophy, history, epistemology, and placing Indigenous struggles alongside other battles, other atrocities, other genocides. Wabigoon River Poems draws upon Indigenous knowledge and traditions while pushing at the boundaries of what readers might expect Indigenous poetry to be.
David Groulx was raised in the Northern Ontario mining community of Elliot Lake. He is proud of his Native roots?his mother is Ojibwe Indian and his father French Canadian. David studied creative writing at the En'owkin Centre in Penticton, BC, in 1998-1999, where he won the Simon J. Lucas Jr. Memorial Award for poetry. He is the author of multiple poetry collections, including Night in the Exude, The Long Dance and Under god's pale bones. David's poetry has appeared in over one hundred periodicals in England, Australia, Germany, Austria and the US. He lives in a log home near Ottawa.
"David Groulx finds humor in tragedy; signs of an intellectual poet when dealing with brutal reality."-Lola Koundakjian, author of The Accidental Observer and Advice to a Poet and editor of the Armenian Poetry Project."Visceral, lyrical, transgressive -- David Groulx's Wabigoon River Poems are a post-apocalyptic journey through the indigenous experience. Weaving allegorically through time, place, and culture, these poems challenge the state of indigenous poetry. These poems are touchstones and Groulx is an alchemist of language." -Mark McCawley, Urban Graffiti"Wabigoon River starts hundreds of years ago and takes us through history to the present day. We keep turning the pages but the remnants of each poem echo behind us. From the haunting small town to the feast's alluring lips, we are intrigued, seduced and leave knowing so much more." -Katherena Vermette, author of North End Love Songs, winner of 2013 Governor General Literary Award for Poetry
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