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Perfect for readers seeking incisive poetry and essays with a global perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"vagabond-book-shane-rhodes-9781903110447","title":"Vagabond","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49558023962897,"sku":"GOR007654004","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1903110440.jpg?v=1750769662"},{"product_id":"toad-tales-book-shane-rhodes-9781903110423","title":"Toad Tales","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49622421930257,"sku":"GOR012569483","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1903110424.jpg?v=1751347566"},{"product_id":"err-book-shane-rhodes-9780889712560","title":"Err","description":"Sex, booze, war and wordplay collide loquaciously in Err, the latest collection from innovative and accomplished poet Shane Rhodes. Equally amusing and stunning with his joyful manipulation of language and his stark portrayals of disease and oppression, Rhodes tackles everything from AIDS to martinis with style, wit and clarity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The book is divided into four themed sections, each of which focuses on a different sphere of life and creativity. \"Spirits\" amends the current scarcity of drinking poems with humourous, effervescent musings, whereas \"Bodies\" looks at the ravages of sex, disease and death. \"The Cloud Chamber\" traces the breakdown of language and sound into poems that interrogate letters, phonemes and jargon, while \"Dark Matter\" investigates new ways of writing and thinking about poetry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A master of alliteration, allusion, rhyme and rhythm, Rhodes shakes up a verbal cocktail of vibrant musicality that appeals to the imagination and remains in the memory. 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In X, Rhodes takes poetry from the comfortable land of the expected to places it has seldom been. Writing through the detritus of Canada's colonization and settlement, Rhodes writes poems to and with Canada's original documents of finding and keeping. He writes a poem to each of the eleven numbered treaties (the Post Confederation Treaties between many of Canada's First Nations and the Queen of England)--he writes to the fonts he finds in Treaty 5, the river he finds in Treaty 6, and the chemicals he finds in Treaty 8. Rhodes writes poems to and with the Indian Act.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond the treaties, Rhodes writes formal poetry using Indian status registration forms. He writes to the memory of Oka. He writes to the Government of Canada's Apology for the Indian Residential School System. He writes to the procreating beavers he finds in the Royal Charter of the Hudson Bay Company. X culminates in \"White Noise,\" a long poem grown from Canada's collective rants, threats, cries and shouts in response to the Idle No More protests and the hunger strike of Chief Theresa Spence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough out the book, Rhodes surprises with what poetry and art can actually do with the seemingly unsalvageable and un-poetic that surrounds us. The design of X is also exhilarating. Not only is the book reversible--it must be read in two directions--but every page bursts with design, interference and thought.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eX sings a new national anthem for Canada, an anthem stripped of patriotic fervor that truly sings of the past many would rather forget and the current state of Indigenous\/settler race relations in Canada, an anthem fit for \"a land held by therefores, herebys and hereinafters.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52681315254545,"sku":"NLS9780889712881","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740510056721,"sku":"NIN9780889712881","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780889712881.jpg?v=1762315262"},{"product_id":"dead-white-men-book-shane-rhodes-9781552453452","title":"Dead White Men","description":"Rhodes has published five books, a number of chapbooks, been featured in multiple anthologies and collections and has written over fifty book reviews for outlets across Canada. Thus, some press can be expected for the book.  Issues around treatment of Indigenous people are prominent in North American conversations in media and academia. In the vein of A. Van Jordan's M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A: Poems and Adrian Matejka's The Big Smoke, two poetry titles that rework source material to make powerful statements about the history of race and achievement in the United States. Rhodes reworks scientific texts in addition to newspaper clippings and his scope extends beyond individuals and singular events. This book deals with colonization, history and race, so it may be of interest to people interested in history, race politics, colonial and post-colonial studies, science and travel.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52820897792273,"sku":"NLS9781552453452","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53223590625553,"sku":"NIN9781552453452","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781552453452.jpg?v=1764330795"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-shane-rhodes.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}