{"product_id":"creeland-9780889713925","title":"Creeland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreeland\u003c\/i\u003e is a poetry collection concerned with notions of home and the quotidian attachments we feel to those notions, even across great distances. Even in an area such as Treaty Eight (northern Alberta), a geography decimated by resource extraction and development, people are creating, living, laughing, surviving and flourishing--or at least attempting to.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe poems in this collection are preoccupied with the role of Indigenous aesthetics in the creation and nurturing of complex Indigenous lifeworlds. They aim to honour the encounters that everyday Cree economies enable, and the words that try--and ultimately fail--to articulate them. Hunt gestures to the movements, speech acts and relations that exceed available vocabularies, that may be housed within words like \u003ci\u003ejoy\u003c\/i\u003e, but which the words themselves cannot fully convey. This debut collection is vital in the context of a colonial aesthetic designed to perpetually foreclose on Indigenous futures and erase Indigenous existence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe Cree word for constellation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eis a saskatoon berry bush in summertime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe translation for policeman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ein Cree is m ci nis kan, kohk s\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe translation for genius\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ein Cree is my k hkom muttering in her sleep\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe Cree word for poetry is your four-year-old\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eniece's cracked lips spilling out\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ebroken syllables of n hiyaw win in between\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe gaps in her teeth\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHunt, Dallas:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eDallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty Eight territory in northern Alberta. He has had creative worked published in \u003ci\u003eContemporary Verse 2\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePRISM international\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eArc Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. His first children's book, \u003ci\u003eAwâsis and the World-famous Bannock\u003c\/i\u003e, was published through Highwater Press in 2018, and was nominated for several awards. Hunt is an assistant professor of Indigenous literatures at the University of British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightwood Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50378541990162,"sku":"9780889713925","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_66e3b6e1-3597-46fa-b681-6dc2857765d1.jpg?v=1728648359","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/creeland-9780889713925","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}