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77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin

By Thomas King

Timely, important, mischievous, powerful: in a word, exceptional

Seventy-seven poems intended as a eulogy for what we have squandered, a reprimand for all we have allowed, a suggestion for what might still be salvaged, a poetic quarrel with our intolerant and greedy selves, a reflection on mortality and longing, as well as a long-running conversation with the mythological currents that flow throughout North America.

ISBN: 9781443459440
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
On Sale: Sep 24, 2019
List price: $19.99
No of pages: 96
Trim Size: 6.600 in (w) x 9.030 in (h) x 1.400 in (d)
BISAC 1: POETRY / Native American
BISAC 2: POETRY / Canadian / General
BISAC 3: POETRY / General

Thomas King

Biography

THOMAS KING is an award-winning writer and photographer. His critically acclaimed, bestselling books include Aliens on the Moon; Medicine River; Green Grass; Running Water; One Good Story; That One; Truth and Bright Water; A Short History of Indians in Canada; The Back of the Turtle (winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction); The Inconvenient Indian (winner of the RBC Taylor Prize); Indians on Vacation; Sufferance; and the poetry collection 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin. A Companion of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, Thomas King lives in Guelph, Ontario.

 

Timely, important, mischievous, powerful: in a word, exceptional

Seventy-seven poems intended as a eulogy for what we have squandered, a reprimand for all we have allowed, a suggestion for what might still be salvaged, a poetic quarrel with our intolerant and greedy selves, a reflection on mortality and longing, as well as a long-running conversation with the mythological currents that flow throughout North America.

ISBN: 9781443459440
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
On Sale: Sep 24, 2019
List price: $19.99
No of pages: 96
Trim Size: 6.600 in (w) x 9.030 in (h) x 1.400 in (d)
BISAC 1: POETRY / Native American
BISAC 2: POETRY / Canadian / General
BISAC 3: POETRY / General

Thomas King

Biography

THOMAS KING is an award-winning writer and photographer. His critically acclaimed, bestselling books include Aliens on the Moon; Medicine River; Green Grass; Running Water; One Good Story; That One; Truth and Bright Water; A Short History of Indians in Canada; The Back of the Turtle (winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction); The Inconvenient Indian (winner of the RBC Taylor Prize); Indians on Vacation; Sufferance; and the poetry collection 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin. A Companion of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, Thomas King lives in Guelph, Ontario.