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You can't bury them all : poems / Patrick Woodcock.

by Woodcock, Patrick, 1968-

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ECW Press, [2016]

Kurds -- Iraq -- Poetry.

Canadian poetry -- 21st century.

Fort Good Hope (N.W.T.) -- Poetry.

Azerbaijan -- Poetry.

9781770413160 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

You cannot bury them all : poems

120 p. ; 22 cm.

"A misFit book."

Patrick Woodcock has spent the past seven years engaging with and being shaped by the people, politics, and landscapes of the Kurdish north of Iraq, Fort Good Hope in the Northwest Territories, and Azerbaijan. His new collection simultaneously explores hope and horror while documenting the transformative processes of coping. "You can't bury them all" follows the narratives we construct to survive the tragic failures of our humanity to their very end: everything tha's buried by snow, dirt, and ash, just like everything that's buried by politics, homophobia, sexism, racism, religion; and history is resurrected, demanding to be heard and addressed. In Woodcock's poetry, how we deal with what resurfaces is the key. What do those who suffer really mean to those who have abandoned them to small, conscience-soothing charitable donations or the occasional tweet? How can the poet, or anyone else, sleep at night knowing homosexuals are being thrown off building tops, after one steps into a hole and finds an abandoned corpse in an Azeri cemetery, or after the elders of an Aboriginal community are left helpless against those who only want to exploit them? Born in Toronto, Patrick Woodcock has spent much of his life as an expatriate, rarely remaining in one locale for an extended period. He has worked as a professor of literature in Ibagué, Colombia, and has lived in countries including Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bosnia and Russia. He currently lives in Iraq.

Canadian poetry.

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