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Poetry Canadian

Surrender & Resistance

by (author) Katie Fewster-Yan

Publisher
Gaspereau Press Ltd.
Initial publish date
Jul 2022
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554472406
    Publish Date
    Jul 2022
    List Price
    $18.95

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Description

The poems in Surrender and Resistance consider our response to the movement of fate upon our lives, the ebb and flow between our willingness to embrace and our determination to reject what seemingly simply happens regardless. Connecting personal cycles of surrender and resistance to the universal, Fewster-Yan employs imagery from both the natural world of plants and animals and from the narratives of Classical myth and fairy tales. While her fate-frustrated Penelope speaks of “that awful and inevitable hope–/ to be endured with due grave caution,” Fewster-Yan’s poems hold open the possibility for a kind of endurance that is neither cheat nor resignation, but simply human.

 

About the author

Katie Fewster-Yan is the author of the chapbook Sick and I (Desert Pets Press, 2017). Originally from Scarborough, Ontario, she currently lives on Nova Scotia’s South Shore.

 

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