Mobile
- Publisher
- Book*hug Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2019
- Category
- Women Authors, Places, Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781771665308
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $18.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771665315
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $14.99
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Description
Longlisted for the 2020 Toronto Book Awards
Mobile is an uncivil feminist reboot of Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies and Other Poems; an urban lament about female citizenship and settler culpability; an homage to working and walking women in a love/hate relationship with Toronto, its rivers and creeks, its sidewalks and parks, its history, misogyny and violence. How do we, in Lee's words, see the "lives we had not lived" that "invisibly stain" the city? What are the sexual politics of occupying space in a city, in a workspace, in history? How can we name our vulnerabilities and our disasters and still find strength?
Written in a slippery mix of lyric and experimental styles, Mobile is MacDonald's grouchiest book yet.
About the author
Tanis MacDonald is the author of two books of poetry: Fortune (2003) and Holding Ground (2000), and is the winner of the 2003 Bliss Carman Poetry Prize. She has published articles on the poetry of P.K. Page, Lorna Crozier, and Anne Carson. She teaches English at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.
Di Brandt’s poetry titles include questions I asked my mother (1987), Agnes in the sky (1990), Jerusalem, beloved (1995), and most recently, Now You Care (2004). She has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the CAA National Poetry Prize, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award. Di Brandt recently returned to the Manitoba prairies, her home, after a decade away, to take up a Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing at Brandon University.
Awards
- Long-listed, Toronto Book Awards
Editorial Reviews
“In Mobile, Tanis MacDonald calls out the nature of patriarchy as it has embedded itself in how women are prevented from being open and free enough to speak their minds. Through her work, she also highlights the places in our society where the supposedly simple act of being mobile—of just being able to walk without fear of being hurt or killed, for goodness sake—is a threat to women’s agency to simply be fully present in the world.” —periodicities
Other titles by
Straggle
Adventures in Walking While Female
The Daughter’s Way
Canadian Women’s Paternal Elegies
Out of Line
Daring to be an Artist Outside the Big City
GUSH
menstrual manifestos for our times
questions I asked my mother
Laurier Poetry Pack #3
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
From Text to Txting
New Media in the Classroom
Rue the Day
Speaking of Power
The Poetry of Di Brandt
Fortune
a poetry manuscript
