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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     La Mackerel, Kama, 1984-     Subjects     Transgender people -- Poetry.     Gender nonconformity -- Poetry.     Lesbianism -- Poetry.     Homosexuality -- Poetry.     Colonies -- Poetry.     Canadian poetry -- 21st century.     Mauritius -- Poetry.     Browse Catalog     by author:      La Mackerel, Kama, 1984-       by title:      Zom-fam : poems / Ka...       by call number:      819.16 L111z     Search the Web     La Mackerel, Kama, 1984-     Transgender people -- Poetry.     Gender nonconformity -- Poetry.     Lesbianism -- Poetry.     Homosexuality -- Poetry.     Colonies -- Poetry.     Canadian poetry -- 21st century.     Mauritius -- Poetry.       MARC Display

Zom-fam : poems / Kama La Mackerel. by La Mackerel, Kama, 1984- Metonymy Press, 2020. Call #: 819.16 L111z Subjects Transgender people -- Poetry.   Gender nonconformity -- Poetry.   Lesbianism -- Poetry.   Homosexuality -- Poetry.   Colonies -- Poetry.   Canadian poetry -- 21st century.   Mauritius -- Poetry. ISBN:  9781999058845 (trade pbk) Description:  120 p. Summary:  "In their debut poetry collection, Kama La Mackerel mythologizes a queer/trans narrative of and for their home island, Mauritius. Composed of expansive lyric poems, ZOM-FAM (meaning 'man-woman' or 'transgender' in Mauritian Kreol) is a voyage into the coming of age of a gender-creative child growing up in the 80s and 90s on the plantation island, as they seek vocabularies for loving and honouring their queer/trans self amidst the legacy of colonial silences. Multiply voiced and imbued with complex storytelling, ZOM-FAM showcases a fluid narrative that summons ancestral voices, femme tongues, broken colonial languages, and a tender queer subjectivity, all of which grapple with the legacy of plantation servitude. Emerging from a creative process in spoken word and live performance, these poems transform the page into a stage where the queer femme body is written and mapped onto the colonial space of the home/island. Interwoven with Kreol, ZOM-FAM showcases a unique lyrical sensibility, a musicality influenced by the both unforgiving and soothing rhythms of the ocean, where the poet enunciates the complexity of their displaced Indo-African roots, 'the lineage of silence / that we weave in-between our intimacies.' Striking, vivid, tender, intimate, and political, ZOM-FAM is a beautifully wrought journey that articulates a contemporary decolonial poetics and offers a roadmap for colonized and displaced queer and trans voices to (re)imagine themselves into being."--Publisher. Genre:  Canadian poetry. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 819.16 L111z Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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