Waking Occupations: Poems
Waking Occupations: Poems The second collection from the acclaimed author of Admission Requirements.This astonishing new collection of poems contemplates our obligations to live in a creative,…
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Waking Occupations: Poems
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. The poems enact brief encounters with objects, events, and works of art that hold us accountable. It follows the figure of the female artist as a time-travelling woman, embodied by mother and daughter, through the gallery of memory.
Finally, a set of shadow elegies mourn what the next generation has already lost,