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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Désil, Junie.     Subjects     Haitian Canadians -- Poetry.     Canadian poetry -- 21st century.     Canadian poetry -- Women authors.     Canadian poetry -- Black authors.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Désil, Junie.       by title:      Eat salt / gaze at t...       by call number:      819.16 D457e     Search the Web     Désil, Junie.     Haitian Canadians -- Poetry.     Canadian poetry -- 21st century.     Canadian poetry -- Women authors.     Canadian poetry -- Black authors.       MARC Display

Eat salt / gaze at the ocean : poems / Junie Désil. by Désil, Junie. Talonbooks, 2020. Call #: 819.16 D457e Subjects Haitian Canadians -- Poetry.   Canadian poetry -- 21st century.   Canadian poetry -- Women authors.   Canadian poetry -- Black authors. ISBN:  9781772012651 (pbk) Alternate title:  Eat salt, gaze at the ocean : poems Gaze at the ocean : poems. Description:  85 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  "This poetry collection explores the themes of Black sovereignty, Haitian sovereignty, and Black lives, using the Haitian (original) Zombie as a metaphor for the condition of and treatment of Black bodies. Interspersed with info about Zombies, Haiti, policies etc., is the author's personal narrative of growing up Black, Haitian, of immigrant parents on stolen land. The collection is divided in two parts, The first half focusing on zombies and the second half focusing on ocean/water and the violent crossing as experienced by enslaved folks. The collection draws on and is influenced by the works of Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robyn Maynard and other scholars. Finally, the title of the collection references the 'cure' for reversing the process of becoming a zombie."--Publisher. Genre:  Canadian poetry. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 819.16 D457e Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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