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Rouge : poems / Adrian De Leon.

by De Leon, Adrian.

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Mawenzi House, 2018.

Canadian poetry -- 21st century.

9781988449487 (lib. bdg.)

Issued also in electronic formats.

"To commemorate a tragedy -- and celebrate a subway line. Toronto the not-so-good? This series of poems is a response to the 2012 Danzig Street mass shooting at a block party in Toronto's Scarborough area, during a period when gun violence had reached a peak in the city. Here the city's east end becomes a source of poetic inspiration, and the east-west subway line as the organizing structure. Going from west to east, each poem is informed by a TTC subway stop, inspiring form, voice, and content. We get meditations, commentary, and visual poetry. The conclusion is a pair of poems, both titled "Rouge": the first makes use of reports, songs, and tweets that appeared following the shooting, and the second is a lyrical response."--From publisher.

Canadian poetry.

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