Better Nature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781771663380)

Vendor: Fenn Stewart
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Format: Paperback
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Better Nature

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Better Nature

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Format: Paperback
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Much of the language that makes up Better Nature--the first book-length poetry collection by writer and academic Fenn Stewart--is drawn from a diary that Walt Whitman wrote while travelling through Canada at the end of the nineteenth century.

But rather than waxing poetic about the untouched Great White North, Stewart inlays found materials (early settler archives, news stories, email spam, fundraising for environmental NGOs, and more) to present a unique view of Canada's "pioneering" attitude towards "wilderness"--one that considers deeper issues of the settler appropriation of Indigenous lands, the notion of terra nullius, and the strategies and techniques used to produce a "better nature" (that is, one that better serves the nation).



Author: Fenn Stewart
ISBN-10: 1771663383
ISBN-13: 9781771663380
Publisher: Book*hug Press
Language: English
Published: 09/18/2017
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.30d
By Fenn Stewart
By Fenn Stewart
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FENN STEWART is the author of three chapbooks and the poetry collection, Better Nature, which was longlisted for the 2018 Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize. A former editor of The Capilano Review, she continues to serve on the magazine's editorial board. Stewart holds a PhD in social and political thought, and teaches literature and writing at Capilano University. She lives with her kids in Vancouver, B.C., on unceded Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəỷəm (Musqueam), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.

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