{"product_id":"current-climate-the-poetry-of-rita-wong-paperback","title":"Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRita Wong\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNicholas Bradley\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCurrent, Climate \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWong's poetry explores the meeting places of life, language, and land--from downtown Vancouver to the headwaters of the Columbia River. Her poems are deeply attentive to places and their names, and especially to the imposition of foreign words on the unceded Indigenous lands of what is otherwise known as British Columbia. Exhorting readers to recognize their responsibilities to the planet and to their communities, Wong's watershed poetics encompass anger, grief, wit, and hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNicholas Bradley's introduction situates Wong's poetry in its literary and cultural contexts, focusing on the role of the author in a time of crisis. In Wong's case, poetry and political activism are intertwined--and profoundly connected to the land and water that sustain us. The volume concludes with an afterword by Rita Wong that calls for collective action to address the climate crisis and systemic inequities with an \"economy of care and solidarity.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRita Wong\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, teacher, and waterkeeper. She is the author of three books of poetry and the co-author of several collaborative works, most recently, \u003ci\u003ebeholden: a poem as long as the river\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), with the poet Fred Wah. With Dorothy Christian (Secwepemc and Syilx Nations), Wong edited \u003ci\u003edownstream: reimagining water\u003c\/i\u003e (WLU Press, 2017). She is an associate professor of Critical + Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she teaches classes in the humanities and creative writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholas Bradley\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eWe Go Far Back in Time: The Letters of Earle Birney and Al Purdy, 1947-1987 \u003c\/i\u003e(2014) and \u003ci\u003eAn Echo in the Mountains: Al Purdy after a Century \u003c\/i\u003e(2020), and the author of \u003ci\u003eRain Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). He is also an associate editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eCanadian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50336352796909,"sku":"9781771124430","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/Zbk7QjV4iw9781771124430.webp?v=1785057017","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/current-climate-the-poetry-of-rita-wong-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}