Cane Fire

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Pub Date 15 Mar 2022 | Archive Date 15 Mar 2022

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Description

From internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo comes Cane | Fire, an immersive and vivid collection that marks a long-awaited return to poetry.

Throughout this evocative, sensual collection, akin to a poetic memoir, past and present are in conversation with each other as the narrator moves from Ireland to San Fernando, and finally to Canada. The reinterpretations and translation of this journey and its associated family history give meaning to the present. Through these deeply personal poems, and Mootoo's own artwork, we begin to understand how a life can not only be shaped, but even reimagined.

From internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo comes Cane | Fire, an immersive and vivid collection that marks a long-awaited return to poetry.

Throughout this evocative...


Advance Praise

“From the first exquisite poems to the collection’s lyrical and vulnerable culmination, Shani Mootoo undertakes a daunting and necessary vision: to extricate personal history and recast it. What emerges is bravely unruly, with viscerally felt lines that merge evocatively with Mootoo’s visual art. This work dissolves the stuffy confines of poetry, not needing to be ‘anything but [its] majestic self.'” —Doyali Islam, author of heft

“Shani Mootoo’s recursive rhythms entrap us. Here are portraits—ripped, coloured in, mirrored, crossed out, hybridized. Here is anti-history, fractal geography, ‘an escarpment of logic / a story told / falling.’ Cane | Fire is a powerful and deeply intelligent confrontation of self and what is sustained in the embers.” —Madhur Anand, Governor General’s Literary Award-winning author of This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart

“From the first exquisite poems to the collection’s lyrical and vulnerable culmination, Shani Mootoo undertakes a daunting and necessary vision: to extricate personal history and recast it. What...


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• Poetry Month related promotion, including securing excerpts
and reviews
• Targeted print and online advertising
• Will be available through promotional social media giveaways
and influencer outreach.
•...


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ISBN 9781771667418
PRICE US$18.00 (USD)
PAGES 150

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