Jennie's Boy is a memoir by Wayne Johnston. LISTEN | Kim Fu discusses Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century with Shelagh Rogers: She has published two other works of fiction, For Today I Am a Boy and The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, and a book of poetry called How Festive the Ambulance.
Kim Fu's Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century peers into the magical, transportive power of short storiesįu is a Washington-based, Canadian-born fiction writer and poet. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century is shortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The stories deal with themes of death, technological consequence, guilt and sexuality and unmask the contradictions within humanity. In Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, a collection of short stories, Kim Fu turns the familiar on its head to weave tales of new worlds where strange happenings, like a girl growing wings on her legs or toy boxes that control the passage of time, are the ordinary trappings of everyday life. Kim Fu is the author of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century.
She won the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize for Ossuaries and in 2017, she was named to the Order of Canada. Her novel What We All Long For won the City of Toronto Book Award in 2006. In 2009, she served as the poet laureate of Toronto. Her collection thirsty won the 2003 Pat Lowther Award. She won the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry and the Trillium Book Award for her 1997 collection Land to Light On. With a critical introduction by the literary scholar and theorist Christina Sharpe, the book features a new long poem, the titular Nomenclature for the Time Being, which is a thoughtful and wide-ranging reflection on location, consciousness, time and the current state of the world.ĭionne Brand on challenging power dynamics, racial stereotypes & gender normsīrand is an award-winning poet and novelist from Toronto.
Nomenclature by Dionne Brand collects eight volumes of the celebrated poet and author's work that were originally published between 19.
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