North End Love Songs
Book description
Katherena Vermette's award-winning poetry collection North End Love Songs is an ode to the place she grew up, where the beauty of the natural world is overlaid with the rough reality of crime and racism. When a young girl's brother goes missing, she learns what prejudice and discrimination mean, as…
Why read it?
1 author picked North End Love Songs as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a book of poetry written by one of Winnipeg’s many Indigenous authors.
I love the poems—their economical lines and vivid imagery—but the poems also don’t shy away from some ugly truths about Winnipeg: Namely, the centuries of racism that have devastated the Indigenous people who gathered for thousands of years where the city’s two rivers meet—the Red and the Assiniboine. The same racism that contributed to the death of the poet’s brother and led the police to dismiss his disappearance for months as simply being due to drunkenness.
Vermette’s poems tackle these hard truths and challenge the reader…
From Mark's list on experiencing the Canadian city of Winnipeg if you can’t actually go there.
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