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    Re-Origin of Species
    Re-Origin of Species
    Re-Origin of Species
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    Re-Origin of Species

    By Alessandra Naccarato

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    Winner of RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
    Winner of CBC Poetry Prize
    Shortlisted for the 2020 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
    Longlisted for the 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award

    From hybrid bodies to shifting landscapes, Re-Origin of Species blurs the lines of the real. These poems journey through illness and altered states to position disability and madness as evolutionary traits; skilled adaptations aligned with ecological change.

    A lyric contemplation of our relationship to the environment, this book looks at the interdependence of species. Weaving personal narratives with a study of the insect kingdom, it draws parallels between human illness, climate change, and the state of peril in the natural world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookhug Press
    Release dateSep 16, 2019
    ISBN9781771665438
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      Re-Origin of Species - Alessandra Naccarato

      FIRST EDITION

      Copyright © 2019 by Alessandra Naccarato

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Title: Re-origin of species / Alessandra Naccarato.

      Names: Naccarato, Alessandra, author.

      Description: Poems.

      Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190160187 |

      Canadiana (ebook) 20190160209

      ISBN 9781771665421 (softcover) | ISBN 9781771665438 (HTML)

      ISBN 9781771665445 (PDF) | ISBN 9781771665452 (Kindle)

      Classification: LCC PS8627.A27 R46 2019 | DDC C811/.6—dc23

      The production of this book was made possible through the generous assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Book*hug Press also acknowledges the support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Ontario Book Fund.

      Book*hug Press acknowledges the land on which it operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

      For survival

      Contents

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Postcards for My Sister

      Imminent Domains

      Mountain That Eats Men

      This Is How You Make a Haunting

      The Fish

      Land That Erases

      Imminent Domain

      One Hundred Ways to Die in Yellowstone

      It Could Be A Virus

      Deforestation

      Creationisms

      Droughtland

      Miscarriage

      It’s About Survival

      Coyote Media

      Media Coyote

      Suicide Seeds

      Generation Exodus

      Mimicry

      Re-Origin Of Species

      Brood Awakening

      Girlhood

      Sad Girl Meets Horned God

      No Comment

      In His Defence

      Infinity

      Northeast Blackout 2003

      Who Can Look at the Light When It’s So Unflinching

      Rite of Housing

      Revival

      Homestead

      Limit Involving Infinity

      Sad Girl Returns to the Living

      Letter to Self at 16

      Autogenesis

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Colophon

      Postcards for My Sister

      Per Nozze E Lutto—Si Lascia Tutto

      To marry and mourn, you leave everything

      (Calabrese Proverb)

      Above the green village, a hill where no one lives.

      Our great-grandmother is buried there.

      Before the town fell, they spread

      their cards and drank. Big-mouthed women, fat

      as trees, their ceilings hung with meat.

      A whistle of us in their hands as they made plans

      for weddings and daughters.

      Our grandmother spoke to a man on the phone,

      and this was how she was married.

      Her long blue skirt, two gold front teeth.

      On that green hill, I lay down with a man and read.

      The floors have

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