Paperback
978-0-88864-675-0Size: 5¼" x 9"
Pages: 128
Pages: 128
Massacre Street
Robert Kroetsch Series
By Paul Zits
Merging poetry and historical records, Zits masterfully (re)creates a poetic view of the Frog Lake Massacre of April 2, 1885. His collage and cut-up techniques challenge the histories penned by the event’s recorders and reflect upon the difficult and painful complexities of past and present. He weaves together voices of Métis and First Nations participants, settlers, and military officials, using tape transcripts, historical accounts, memoirs, and footnotes to create a unique, non-narrative historiography of fragmented poetic language. This innovative work of literary montage digs deep into a historic period that continues to garner scholarly and public interest. Readers interested in poetry and Canadian history will find this an intriguing new collection.
Book details
Publication date: March 2013Series: Robert Kroetsch Series
Keywords: Poetry;Canadian Literature;Historiography;Found Poetry
Subject(s): POETRY / Canadian, Creative Writing, Poetry, Poetry / Canadian Literature / Historiography, Poetry;Canadian Literature;Historiography;Found Poetry, Literature, Poetry, Modern & contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
Book details
Publication date: March 2013Series: Robert Kroetsch Series
Keywords: Poetry;Canadian Literature;Historiography;Found Poetry
Subject(s): POETRY / Canadian, Creative Writing, Poetry, Poetry / Canadian Literature / Historiography, Poetry;Canadian Literature;Historiography;Found Poetry, Literature, Poetry, Modern & contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
Paul Zits. Paul Zits is a poet whose work has been widely published in various literary journals, including Canadian Literature and Arc Poetry Magazine. He lives in Calgary.
"...Zits' book juxtaposes fragments of others' writing to invite readers to ponder the concept of reconstituting history when the low fog of racism attends cultural difference and shrouds events, when personal investments of witnesses to that history are so divergent, and when oral and written versions of events tell incommensurable stories."
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, Canada
Winner
2014
AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show, Poetry and Literature, United States
Winner
2014
Book Design of the Year - Alberta Book Awards, Canada
Short-listed
2014
Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award, Canada
Short-listed
2014
Paul Zits. Paul Zits is a poet whose work has been widely published in various literary journals, including Canadian Literature and Arc Poetry Magazine. He lives in Calgary.
"...Zits' book juxtaposes fragments of others' writing to invite readers to ponder the concept of reconstituting history when the low fog of racism attends cultural difference and shrouds events, when personal investments of witnesses to that history are so divergent, and when oral and written versions of events tell incommensurable stories."
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, Canada
Winner
2014
AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show, Poetry and Literature, United States
Winner
2014
Book Design of the Year - Alberta Book Awards, Canada
Short-listed
2014
Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award, Canada
Short-listed
2014