Settler Education
  • Published: 15 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9780771036873
  • Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $36.00
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Settler Education

Poems

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"A tone-perfect elegiac meditation on the impossibility of engaging with painful history and the necessity of doing so." Margaret Atwood

"A tone-perfect elegiac meditation on the impossibility of engaging with painful history and the necessity of doing so." – Margaret Atwood, Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for Poetry

In the stunning poems of Settler Education, Laurie D. Graham vividly explores the Plains Cree uprising at Frog Lake -- the death of nine settlers, the hanging of six Cree warriors, the imprisonment of Big Bear, and the opening of the Prairies to unfettered settlement. In ways possible only with such an honest act of imagination, and with language at once terse and capacious, Settler Education reckons with how these pasts repeat and reconstitute themselves in the present.
  • Published: 15 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9780771036873
  • Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $36.00
Categories:

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Praise for Settler Education

Praise for Rove:

  • "Graham grabs you by the hand tugging you into a running pace across prairie time and space in a frenzied barrage of culture, history, memory and detritus." Telegraph-Journal
  • "Rove is a stunning long poem in a manner reminiscent of Jan Zwicky and Robert Kroetsch that combines meditation with compact sensory impressions. Its language resonates through the twists and turns of immigrants' lived stories. Innovate, lyrical, wise, and moving, Rove considers and details the surface changes of a region in Western Canada, evoking a strong sense of place." 2014 Gerald Lampert Award Jury Citation