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Obits

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  • Publisher:
    Coach House Books, 2018
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Liem, Tess
    Date:
    Created
    2018
    Summary:

    In Obits. a speaker tries and fails to write obituaries for those whose memorials are missing, those who are represented only as statistics. She considers victims of mass deaths, fictional characters, and her own aunt, asking what does it mean to be an 'I' mourning a 'you' when both have been othered? Centring vulnerability, the various answers to this question pass through trauma, depression, and the experience of being a mixed-race queer woman.

    Subject(s): Poetry
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Coach House Books
    Language(s): English