The Milk of Amnesia
The Milk of Amnesia
Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary
Haunted by the inherited memory of war, one woman's unyielding search through disrupted history and time.
The feel-good place to buy books
- Free US shipping over $15
- Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
- Millions of affordable books
- Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!
The Milk of Amnesia by Danielle Janess
fire / and water surging on the screen - / since children, metros, planets, beds, and lovers are / so lightly swept away - I must not even breathe. Danielle Janess's debut poetry collection resists the erasing effects of war, nationalism, and forced migration. Following the speaker's arduous relocation to a twenty-first-century Europe still etched with the wounds of the past, the poems take on daring forms and language, becoming theatre, film clips, photographs, and dance, all embodied by a cast of characters marked by the violence of the last century. Arrested in Warsaw within the first twenty days of the Second World War, Janess's maternal grandfather was sent to a Soviet gulag where he survived for three years before joining the Free Polish Army in Russia and later the battle of Monte Cassino in the Italian Campaign. Many of the poems in The Milk of Amnesia grow from the soil of Warsaw and Berlin, where the poet-speaker catapults herself and her young child in an effort to locate and unearth their family inheritance. Drawing from the tradition of poetry of witness, The Milk of Amnesia performs a visionary resistance, lit with signposts in a charged atmosphere. An address to our ongoing struggles with historical memory, these poems act as both artifact of and antidote to our time."A vibrating journey across time and the borders of memory and space to voice what was unvoiced, to restore the pieces of a broken world" Tomasz Rózycki, author of Colonies
Danielle Janess's poems and translations have appeared in journals and anthologies in Canada, Germany, France, the United States, and the United Kingdom. She lives in Victoria.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780228003458 |
| ISBN 10 | 0228003458 |
| Title | The Milk of Amnesia |
| Author | Danielle Janess |
| Series | Hugh Maclennan Poetry Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| Year published | 2020-10-22 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |