Conflict

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 OTTAWA BOOK AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 RELIT AWARD__Conflict__ interweaves ghosts, bad communication, the uncanny and the archival, to create a collection of poems that break down remembrance into abandoned historic markers, jet fuel, keening, or teeth. What you are given (this is a gift) is an insistent refusal to silence or shift. In exchange, the reader must face the impossibility of erasure, a gritty resistance to mourn a fight. __Conflict__ is a collection of red balloons that intersplices and interweaves through various forms of conflict that occur in language, motion, architecture, emotions; between individuals, systems, and mechanical silences. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 OTTAWA BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 RELIT AWARD Conflict interweaves ghosts, bad communication, the uncanny and the archival, to create a collection of poems that break down remembrance into abandoned historic markers, jet fuel, keening, or teeth. What you are given (this is a gift) is an insistent refusal to silence or shift. In exchange, the reader must face the impossibility of erasure, a gritty resistance to mourn a fight. Conflict is a collection of red balloons that intersplices and interweaves through various forms of conflict that occur in language, motion, architecture, emotions; between individuals, systems, and mechanical silences.