Tag Archives: Poetry
“Memories and Songs”: The Work of Mourning in I Knew Two Métis Women
Gregory Scofield’s I Knew Two Métis Women mourns the loss of a mother and an aunt. The title itself, in its use of the past tense, alerts the reader to the book’s function as eulogy. The series of poems that follow re-tell the lives of two people Scofield loved, tracing the moments that make up his […]
Blue Marrow, White Page: Considering White Space in Indigenous Poetics
https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7066642777601645 Almost halfway through the Coteau edition of Louise Bernice Halfe’s Blue Marrow, right before the narrator delves into her Métis history, the text is interrupted by a blank, white page (what would be page 66). At first, the page reads as an error, something that went wrong on the printing room floor. It doesn’t seem […]
Novel Alliances 