I Am a Body of Land [Paperback]

Finalist for the 2019 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry

Edited, with an introduction by multiple award-winning writer, elder, and activist Lee Maracle.

If poetry is a place to question,I Am a Body of Landby Shannon Webb-Campbell is an attempt to explore a relationship to poetic responsibility and accountability, and frame poetry as a form of re-visioning.

Here Webb-Campbell revisits the text of her earlier workWho Took My Sister?to examine her self, her place and her own poetic strategies. These poems are efforts to decolonize, unlearn, and undo harm.

Reconsidering individual poems and letters, Webb-Campbell's confessional writing circles back, and challenges what it means to ask questions of her own settler-Indigenous identity, belonging, and attempts to cry out for community, and call in with love.

LEE MARACLEwas the author of a number of critically acclaimed works, includingRavensong;Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel;Daughters Are Forever;Celia';s Song;I Am Woman;First Wives Club;Talking to the Diaspora,Memory Serves: Oratories; andMy Conversations with Canadians, which was a finalist for the 2018 Toronto Book Award and the First Nation Communities READ Award.Hope Matters, a poetry collection co-authored with her daughters Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter, was published in 2019. Maracle was also the co-editor ofMy Home as I Rememberand served as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, and the University of Western Washington. Maracle received the J.T. Stewart Award, the Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Blue Metropolis Festival First Peoples Prize, the Harbourfront Festival Prize, and the Anne Green Award. Maracle received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from St. Thomas University, was a recipient of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal, and was an Officer of the Order of Canada. In lã-