Boothby, Aaron: Continent

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McClelland & Stewart, paperback Publication Date: March 21, 2023 Publisher Marketing: "These poems buckle and drift in ways that reveal their continental scope. The I of these poem s offers its critical lament, but it never overlooks beauty." --Kaie Kellough The poems in Continent ask to be done with presuming, knowing, and defining. They trace maps laid across lands and peoples by force, voiced by a speaker both engaged in attendingto this ongoing violence and unable to escape complicity with it. Urgent, visceral, emotionally striking, Aaron Boothby's debut collection asks the question: how can we see, listen, and feel an ongoing catastrophe and look for what is beyond it? Show more