wake
- Publisher
- J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2003
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780920486498
- Publish Date
- Sep 2003
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
In Melanie Cameron’s second collection, memory is wake: a return to consciousness, a commemoration of the dead, the undulating trace of event. In cycles of poems that invoke both family and classical mythology, Cameron invites us to explore the personal histories we carry tucked into the pockets of our bodies, and the public histories inscribed on the streets and the buildings of our city.
About the author
Melanie Cameron was born in Kitchenerâ??Waterloo in 1971, has grown up within several communities, and now makes her home in Winnipeg. Holding the Dark is her first book, and it was shortlisted for the Eileen MacTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Writer. Cameron has been shortlisted twice for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer (1999, 2001).