Uncomfortability
- Publisher
- Gordon Hill Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2023
- Category
- General, Women Authors, Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781774221020
- Publish Date
- Sep 2023
- List Price
- $20.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781774221044
- Publish Date
- Sep 2023
- List Price
- $10.00
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Description
In Uncomfortability, Roxanna Bennett's third book with Gordon Hill Press, pandemic conditions are explored in their individuated awfulness but also their paradoxical solidarity, the unifying collective status of being somehow constrained, life radically changing due to social proscription. Continuing her development and renovation of the sonnet form established in her previous books, but building on the form by arranging the text into seasonal divisions like a Book of Hours, Uncomfortability is devoted to this question from "Life Without Weather", "Could we begin to love each other’s pain?" The book answers, "No one needs to fight. We are all the same."
About the author
The disabled poem-making entity known as Roxanna Bennett gratefully resides on aboriginal land. They are the author of the award-winning colletions The Untranslatable I (Gordon Hill Press, 2021), and Unmeaningable (Gordon Hill Press, 2019), and Uncomfortability.