Walking Occupations

Phoebe Wang

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McClelland & Stewart Inc.
19 April 2022

Poetry

The second collection from the acclaimed author of Admission Requirements.

The second collection from the acclaimed author of Admission Requirements.

This astonishing new collection of poems contemplates our obligations to live in a creative, generative, and revolutionary way amid a cascade of global contingencies.

In a four-part meditation on what it means to live on occupied land and in colonial time, the subject of these poems has moved beyond arriving and departing and wakes each day to meet her commitments and to heal from complicities, exclusions, difficult truths and the pandemic of forgetting. It follows the figure of the female artist as a time-travelling woman, embodied by mother and daughter, through the gallery of memory. The poems enact brief encounters with objects, events, and works of art that hold us accountable. Finally, a set of shadow elegies mourn what the next generation has already lost, while searching for traces of the wild and for ceremonies that might mend us.

Waking Occupations is an urgent, essential collection that considers what we carry from previous generations and our liabilities to the cyclical nature of the work that uplifts us.

By: Phoebe Wang
Imprint: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 161g
ISBN: 9780771099397
ISBN 10: 0771099398
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 19 April 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

PHOEBE WANG is a writer and educator based in Toronto, Canada, and a first-generation Chinese-Canadian. Her debut collection of poetry, Admission Requirements was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and nominated for the Trillium Book Award. She is a poetry editor with The Fiddlehead Magazine and served as the 2021-2022 Writer-In-Residence at the University of New Brunswick.

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Praise for Phoebe Wang and Waking Occupations Traversing the personal and the collective, Phoebe Wang's Waking Occupations offers profound meditations on creativity and survival that honor artistic works as sites of memory, and that recognize the poet and artist as memory-keeper. Rich in ache and eloquence, these poems thrive in their gifting of language and sonic fluidities reaching across time and space. Wang's collection restores toward a new futurity while refusing to be forgotten. -Mai Der Vang, author of Yellow Rain

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