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sulphurtongue

Author: Rebecca Salazar
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Format: Hardback
Published: 2022
ISBN#: 9780771094699
List Price: $19.95
Pages: 120 pages

Award Finalist

J. M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award

Award Finalist

The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize

Award Finalist

J. M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award

Award Finalist

The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize

About The Book

The poems in sulphurtongue ask how to redefine desire and kinship across languages, and across polluted environments. An immigrant family scatters over a stolen continent. Oracles appear in public transit, and online. Bodies are transformed by nearby nickel mines. Doppelgangers, Catholic saints, and polyamorists alike pass on unusual inheritances. Deeply entangled in relations both emotional and ecological, this collection confronts the stories we tell about gender, queerness, race, religion, illness, and trauma, seeking new forms of care for a changing world.