{"product_id":"the-salmon-shanties-a-cascadian-song-cycle-9781779400154","title":"The Salmon Shanties: A Cascadian Song Cycle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarold Rhenisch's poems balance the settler and Indigenous experiences of land and water in the Pacific Northwest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A collection of shanties (songs) laid out in couplets that move between English and Chinook Wawa, \u003ci\u003eThe Salmon Shanties \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates a poetic tradition deeply rooted on the West Coast. Harold Rhenisch explores memories of people, place, and of returning home, speaking the land's names as a music of its own and creating a series of aural maps. \u003cbr\u003e Imbued with rhythms of Secwepemc grass dances, the colloquial chatter of the Canadian poet Al Purdy, and the voice of poet and historian Charles Lillard, Rhenisch's work sings of roots to the land lifted up by the sea into the sky--as if Ezra Pound had sung of Cascadia instead of Europe. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDo not be in Mareuil and P?rigeux tonight; it is 1912 no longer.\u003cbr\u003e We, the land's singers, are walking the star road on the long way home\u003cbr\u003e with the crickets of a July evening above Tuc el Nuit, \u003cbr\u003e the burrowing owls of N'kmp, \u003cbr\u003e and the long memories of the dwarf shrews of Nighthawk.\u003cbr\u003e Breath cannot be denied. Poh cannot be forsaken. Ezra, shantie.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarold Rhenisch\u003c\/b\u003e has published 33 books of poetry, fiction, memoir, translation, criticism and nonfiction since 1981. He has twice won both the CBC Prize and the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize and received the George Ryga Prize for Social Responsibility in Literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Regina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50892591366418,"sku":"9781779400154","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5a5b57b4-8a6e-4dea-9cbc-bc33c01dfcd3.jpg?v=1738197074","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-salmon-shanties-a-cascadian-song-cycle-9781779400154","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}