Cut to Fortress

Name: Cut to Fortress
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780889714168
Price: 39.99 NZD
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Poems

By Tawahum Bige

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Cut to Fortress by Tawahum Bige is a compelling exploration of the natural world through poetry and prose. It delves into themes of Indigenous identity and environmental interconnectedness, inviting readers to reflect on the complex relationships between land, culture, and community in an ever-changing world.
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Cut to Fortress

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You might like this book if you enjoy exploring the intricate connections between indigenous identity and the natural world. This collection provides a powerful and thought-provoking blend of poetry and nature, offering insights into environmental justice through a deeply personal lens. It's perfect for readers interested in using literature as a gateway to understanding cultural and ecological perspectives.

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A stunning debut poetry collection confronting colonialism, relationships, grief, and intergenerational wounds.

Cut to Fortress considers the possibility of decolonisation through a personal lens, urging for a resistance that is tied using cord and old-growth tree roots; a resistance that tethers us all together in this contemporary existence.

With an upbringing in Surrey, fraught familial conflicts, the passing of his older brother, and its influence on his worldview, Bige slices through the forts built overtop occupied Turtle Island to examine their origin and his own. His journey climbs into the mountains while he reconnects with his Dene and Cree cultures like a gripping hand on jagged rock. His path draws into the concrete urban streets where Wetako-medicine lurks, especially for his people. The labour of these travels brings him to the springs where healing passed-down traumas becomes possible by drawing water through vulnerability.

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Cut to Fortress by Tawahum Bige is celebrated for its depiction of interconnectedness between urban life and nature through vivid, staccato poetry. The work is recognised for its youthful voice that resonates with activism and reflection, drawing on teachings from past journeys to envision new possibilities.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780889714168

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 January 2023

Country: Canada

Imprint: Nightwood Editions

Illustration: b&w line drawings

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 96

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About the Author

Tawahum Bige is a Lutselk'e Dene, Plains Cree poet who resides on unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territory (Vancouver). Their Scorpio-moon-ass poems expose growth, resistance and persistence as a hopeless Two Spirit Nonbinary sadboy on occupied Turtle Island. With a B.A. in creative writing from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Bige has performed at countless festivals and had poems featured in numerous publications. His land protection work against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion led him to face incarceration in 2020. Cut to Fortress is Bige's debut poetry collection. Find him online @Tawahum on Instagram, Twitter and more.