Creeland

By (author): Dallas Hunt

Creeland is a poetry collection concerned with notions of home and the quotidian attachments we feel to those notions, even across great distances. Even in an area such as Treaty Eight (northern Alberta), a geography decimated by resource extraction and development, people are creating, living, laughing, surviving and flourishing—or at least attempting to.The poems in this collection are preoccupied with the role of Indigenous aesthetics in the creation and nurturing of complex Indigenous lifeworlds. They aim to honour the encounters that everyday Cree economies enable, and the words that try—and ultimately fail—to articulate them. Hunt gestures to the movements, speech acts and relations that exceed available vocabularies, that may be housed within words like joy, but which the words themselves cannot fully convey. This debut collection is vital in the context of a colonial aesthetic designed to perpetually foreclose on Indigenous futures and erase Indigenous existence.the Cree word for constellationis a saskatoon berry bush in summertimethe translation for policemanin Cree is mîci nisôkan, kohkôsthe translation for geniusin Cree is my kôhkom muttering in her sleepthe Cree word for poetry is your four-year-oldniece’s cracked lips spilling outbroken syllables of nêhiyawêwin in betweenthe gaps in her teeth 

AUTHOR

Dallas Hunt

Dallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta, Canada. He has had creative and critical work published in the Malahat Review, Arc Poetry, Canadian Literature, Settler Colonial Studies, and the American Indian Culture and Research Journal. His first children’s book, Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock, was published through Highwater Press and was nominated for the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Award.


Awards

  • George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature 2022, Short-listed
  • Gerald Lampert Memorial Award 2022, Long-listed
  • Gerald Lampert Memorial Award 2022, Short-listed
  • Indigenous Voices Award 2022, Short-listed
  • ReLit Award (Poetry) 2022, Short-listed
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    Creeland is a poetry collection concerned with notions of home and the quotidian attachments we feel to those notions, even across great distances. Even in an area such as Treaty Eight (northern Alberta), a geography decimated by resource extraction and development, people are creating, living, laughing, surviving and flourishing—or at least attempting to.The poems in this collection are preoccupied with the role of Indigenous aesthetics in the creation and nurturing of complex Indigenous lifeworlds. They aim to honour the encounters that everyday Cree economies enable, and the words that try—and ultimately fail—to articulate them. Hunt gestures to the movements, speech acts and relations that exceed available vocabularies, that may be housed within words like joy, but which the words themselves cannot fully convey. This debut collection is vital in the context of a colonial aesthetic designed to perpetually foreclose on Indigenous futures and erase Indigenous existence.the Cree word for constellationis a saskatoon berry bush in summertimethe translation for policemanin Cree is mîci nisôkan, kohkôsthe translation for geniusin Cree is my kôhkom muttering in her sleepthe Cree word for poetry is your four-year-oldniece’s cracked lips spilling outbroken syllables of nêhiyawêwin in betweenthe gaps in her teeth 

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    Dimensions:

    128 Pages
    8in * 5.5in * 0.35in
    0.66lb

    Published:

    April 24, 2021

    Publisher:

    Nightwood Editions

    ISBN:

    9780889713925

    Book Subjects:

    POETRY / General

    Language:

    eng

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