Unmeaningable
- Publisher
- Gordon Hill Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2019
- Category
- Canadian, General, Women Authors
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781928171843
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $10.00
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Description
Winner of the 2020 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the 2020 Raymond Souster Award, Unmeaningable welcomes you to the freak show, where the monster on display is a culture that stigmatizes sickness and a system that shames the sufferer. Behold the wonder of the ages, a human mind in a human body, dissected and displayed for entertainment. Witness the ritual of surgical sacrifice! Observe the indignity of institutionalization! Be astounded by the indifference of ableism and ignorance! This uncanny collection of “crippled” sonnets features a thrilling display of cannibals, chimeras, and the crucial question: What meaning can be made of a life lived in pain and isolation?
About the author
The disabled poem-making entity known as Roxanna Bennett gratefully resides on aboriginal land. They are the author of the award-winning colletions The Untranslatable I (Gordon Hill Press, 2021), and Unmeaningable (Gordon Hill Press, 2019), and Uncomfortability.
