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You might be sorry you read this

Poirier Brown, Michelle (author.).

Summary: You Might Be Sorry You Read This is a stunning debut, revealing how breaking silences and reconciling identity can refine anger into something both useful and beautiful. A poetic memoir that looks unflinchingly at childhood trauma (both incestuous rape and surviving exposure in extreme cold), it also tells the story of coming to terms with a hidden Métis heritage. Honouring the complexities of Indigenous identity and the raw experiences of womanhood, mental illness, and queer selfhood, these narratives carry weight. They tell us "You need / only be the simple / expression of the divine / intent / that is your life." A journey of pain, belonging, hope, and resilience, there is a lifetime in these poems.

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  • ISBN: 9781772126037 (softcover)
  • Physical Description: print
    92 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, [2022]

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Subject: Canadian poetry -- 21st century
Métis -- Poetry
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Poetry
Authors, Canadian (Indigenous)
Topic Heading: Indigenous.
Métis Canada.
First Nations Canada.

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The Pas Campus Library PR 9199.4 .P645 Y68 2022 (Text) 58500001152255 Stacks Volume hold Available -
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The Father I Had
1(2)
God Was a Baby
3(1)
A Child's Book of Holy Services
4(2)
Her Breath on My Face
6(2)
Other Side of the Glass
8(2)
Effect on Her Throat
10(1)
The House on Strathnaver Avenue
11(4)
Mothers Who Know
15(1)
The Thing about Snow
16(6)
Photograph
22(1)
Under the Covers
23(2)
The Girls I Grew Up with Are Everywhere
25(2)
Shortchange
27(1)
After the Test
28(1)
Walk on the Left-Hand Side
29(1)
5:53 PM
30(2)
A Perspective on Women
32(1)
Collard Greens
33(1)
Lasts
34(2)
I'm Allowed to Have Whatever Kind of Father I Want
36(2)
Intimacy
38(1)
On the Porch
39(2)
At Times, My Teeth Chatter
41(5)
About Face
What It's Like to Have My Face
46(1)
Understanding My Face
47(5)
Wake
52(2)
A Fragile Defiance
54(1)
Smoke
55(2)
Winnipeg Trip
57(2)
Commitment
59(2)
Two Mornings, 2018
61(2)
Boxed
63(1)
Those I Call Friends
64(2)
Duck Ugly
66(1)
Beneficiaries of a Genocide
67(2)
Slow
69(1)
Sometimes You Learn Things Quite Late in the Game
70(2)
Something Purple
72(3)
What it is like to be this extreme and appear normal
75(3)
The Other Grandmother
78(2)
Self-Portrait of the Poet
80(3)
Addendum 83(4)
Poetic Statement 87(3)
Acknowledgements 90

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