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Blood Belies
In this arresting debut collection Ellen Chang-Richardson writes of race, of injury and of belonging in stunning poems that fade in and out of the page. History swirls through this collection like a summer storm, as she brings her father’s, and her own, stories to light, writing against the background of the institutional racism of Canada, the Chinese Exclusion Act, the head tax and more. From Taiwan in the early 1990s to Oakville in the late 1990s, Toronto in the 2010s, Cambodia in the mid-1970s and Ottawa in the 2020s, Blood Belies takes the reader through time, asking them what it means to look the way we do? To carry scars? To persevere? To hope?
In this singular collection ChangRichardson scores the page with line punctuation and blank space to hold a range of experiences family and national histories racism illness and injury
—melanie brannagan frederiksen, Winnipeg Free Press
A debut collection from Ellen ChangRichardson Blood Belies is daring in its expansiveness The poems ask and create space for contemplation questioning frustration and ultimately awareness examining systemic and institutional racism the politehypocrisyof Canada and personal and familial trajectories The poems are terrific in their untetheredness using experimental forms supple rhythm and fervid language play to unwind the mind
—Wanda Praamsma, Toronto Star
Minimalism and visual elements increase the impact of the writing Incorporating silences and the visual equivalent of static between stations on a dial ChangRichardsons poems move between the overtly political and the familial interweaving the two
—Frances Boyle, Freefall Magazine
Beyond its beauty and its ability to be cherished as a material and spiritual objectBlood Beliesleaves us with the freedom to notice our own fragmentation and so to see ourselves differently as its author let themself do
—Jrme Melanon, the tmz Review
Ellen ChangRichardsons debut poetry collectionBlood Beliesgives testimony to a timeline of antiAsian sentiment throughout Canadian history Written in the style of fluctuation between verse and concrete poetry ChangRichardson succeeds in making meaning of the literal page encroaching spaces and missing text their writing style echoes of feeling an experiential living in Canada as an other
—Sarah Hailstone
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Dimensions:
136 Pages
8.5in * 5.88in * 0.44in
256gr
Published:
April 02, 2024
Publisher:
ISBN:
9781989496879
Language:
eng
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