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Timely, important, mischievous, powerful: in a word, exceptional. Seventy-seven poems intended as a eulogy for what we have squandered, a reprimand for all we have allowed, a suggestion for what might still be salvaged, a poetic quarrel with our intolerant and greedy selves, a reflection on mortality and longing, as well as a long-running conversation with the mythological currents that flow throughout North America.
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Premier recueil de poésie du grand écrivain autochtone Thomas King
Traduit par Jonathan Lamy
Résumé
Thomas King signe un premier recueil de poésie. Soixante-dix-sept fragments o alternent mythes réactualisés, commentaires politiques, tranches de vie et traits d'humour. Le tout porté par la puissance tellurique et le style iconoclaste de ce grand écrivain autochtone.
Extrait
Quand je me sens frustré,
je vais à la rivière
lancer des pierres
dans...
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Trickster Coyote is having his friends over for a festive solstice get-together in the woods when a little girl comes by unexpectedly. She leads the partygoers through the snowy woods to a shopping mall - a place they have never seen before.
Coyote gleefully shops with abandon, only to discover that filling your shopping cart with goodies is not quite the same thing as actually paying for them. The trickster is tricked and goes back to his cabin...