{"product_id":"spawn-9781771665971","title":"Spawn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpawn\u003c\/i\u003e is a braided collection of brief, untitled poems, a coming-of-age lyric set in the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores of Lake Piekuakami (Saint-Jean) in Quebec. Undeniably political, Marie-Andr e Gill's poems ask: How can one reclaim a narrative that has been confiscated and distorted by colonizers?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poet's young avatar reaches new levels on Nintendo, stays up too late online, wakes to her period on class photo day, and carves her lovers' names into every surface imaginable. Encompassing twenty-first-century imperialism, coercive assimilation, and 90s-kid culture, the collection is threaded with the speaker's desires, her searching: for fresh water to \"take the edge off,\" for a \"habitable word,\" for sex. For her \"true north\"--her voice and her identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the life cycle of the \u003ci\u003eouananiche\u003c\/i\u003e that frames this collection, the speaker's journey is cyclical; immersed in teenage moments of confusion and life on the reserve, she retraces her scars to let in what light she can, and perhaps in the end discover what to \"make of herself\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSpawn\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSpawn\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic journey that follows the ouananiche in their steadfast ability to hold: rigid, shimmering, hardened to the frigid waters of winter, in all of its capacities of and for whiteness. Here, poems summon a spawn of wonderworking dreams: 'a woman risen up from all these winter worlds, heaped with ice  and] ready to start again'.\" --Joshua Whitehead, author of \u003ci\u003eJonny Appleseed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Spawn is unforgettable poetry of the highest order.\" --Kaveh Akbar, author of \u003ci\u003eCalling a Wolf a Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gill's poems are like small treasures clutched in buried tree roots, preserving 'the chalky veins' of ancestral memory pulsing just below our modern hustle.\" --Kiki Petrosino, author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Blood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Book*hug Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771665971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.20w x 0.40d","brand":"Marie-Andr?e Gill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36668342370460,"sku":"9781771665971","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_46bc0958-46f6-45b4-a912-87dfba456d13.jpg?v=1603917288","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/spawn-9781771665971","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}