Current, Climate by Rita Wong

Current, Climate by Rita Wong

Offers an introduction to the environmental and social-justice poetry of Rita Wong. Selections from her poetic oeuvre show how Wong has responded to local and global inequities with outrage, linguistic inventiveness, and sometimes humour.

Rita Wong is an award-winning writer of four books of poetry, her latest titled undercurrent (2015). She is co-editor of downstream: reimagining water (WLU Press 2017), nominated for the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize. She teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, on the unceded Coast Salish territories also known as Vancouver, where she learns from water.

Nicholas Bradley is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. He is the editor of We Go Far Back in Time: The Letters of Earle Birney and Al Purdy, 1947-1987 (2014) and the author of Rain Shadow (2018). He is also an associate editor of the journal Canadian Literature.

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ISBN 13	9781771124430
ISBN 10	1771124431
Title	Current, Climate
Author	Rita Wong
Series	Laurier Poetry
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Year published	2021-08-30
Number of pages	88
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