Cartograph

By (author): Cara-Lyn Morgan

These are poems of a woman’s healing journey from both accidental injury to the deeply imbued wounds of colonization. Cara-Lyn Morgan metaphorically maps out the process of recovery within her own body and the land around her, moving though the muscles and sinews of her own being and out across landscapes. Her words create new maps and revisit the ancient ones: Vancouver Island, Georgian Bay, and the prairies all become “a merle of blackbirds,” “wayward unsettling of red lilies after the thunderstorm,” and “soil and sweat, sunlight and crop.” She finds the medicine in each of her different voices: Métis, Trinidadian, and stretchy-pant-wearing yoga lover. In Cartograph she braids together these voices like sweetgrass. Within their woven map, we meet Cara-Lyn Morgan.

AUTHOR

Cara-Lyn Morgan

Cara-Lyn Morgan comes from both Indigenous (Métis) and Immigrant (Trinidadian) roots in the place known as Turtle Island and Canada. She was born in Oskana, known now as Regina, Saskatchewan, and lives, works, and gardens, in the traditional territories of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, and Mississaugas of the Credit peoples. Her debut collection of poetry, What Became My Grieving Ceremony, won the 2015 Fred Cogswell Award for Poetic Excellence.  Her second collection, Cartograph, explores healing, cultural duality, and colonization. Find out more at www.cara-lynmorgan.com.


Awards

  • Best Canadian Poetry in English 2015, Winner
  • Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence in Poetry 2015, Winner
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    From “Grounded”
    How beautiful are the ruined.

    From “as much a beginning as any
    “The old train station. So many of the stories start
    in places like this. Our bones are the iron and weed
    of this province, dry and endless. Strapped
    always to the horizon, moving always
    moving. Our uncle brings
    us here to say our bones
    will one day hunt back here, seek
    this soil, scrag and root,
    the sky-starved beetles. Here, I feel”

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    Details

    Dimensions:

    80 Pages
    8.5in * 5.5in * .2in
    250gr

    Published:

    October 01, 2017

    Publisher:

    Thistledown Press

    ISBN:

    9781771871518

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    Language:

    eng

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