Monitoring Station (Robert Kroetsch Series) - Softcover

Greckol, Sonja Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1772126799 ISBN 13: 9781772126792

Publisher: University of Alberta Press, 2023

Synopsis

Sonja Ruth Greckol's Monitoring Station enters a slipstream of space and planetary language, circling time, embodying loss and longing, generating and regenerating in a faltering climate. Orbiting through a mother's death, a grandbaby's birth, and a pandemic summer, these poems loop and fragment in expansive and empathetic ways. The title poem locates a settler voice revisiting Treaties 6 and 7 and the Métis lands of her Alberta childhood, while the overall collection is tethered to Toronto shadowed by northland prairie. Nimble, energetic, and challenging, the book engages a dense kind of poetic thinking about belonging and responsibility to people and place, within both recent history and far-flung cosmic realities. Falling squarely within a Canadian feminist experimental lyric trajectory, and grounded in bodily, personal, and political experience, Monitoring Station embodies the passage of a damaged world across generations.

About this title

About the Author

Sonja Ruth Greckol is the author of No Line in Time, Skein of Days, and Gravity Matters. She lives in Tkaronto/Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1772126799
• ISBN 13: 9781772126792
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88