Resistance: Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo [Paperback]

Writers across the globe speak out against sexual assault and abuse in this powerful new poetry anthology, edited by Sue Goyette.
These collected poems from writers across the globe declare one common theme: resistance. By exploring sexual assault and violence in their work, each writer resists the patriarchal systems of power that continue to support a misogynist justice system that supports abusers. In doing so, they reclaim their power and their voice.

Created as a response to the Jian Ghomeshi case, writers including Joan Crate, Ashley-Elizabeth Best, and Beth Goobie are, as editor Sue Goyette explains, a “multitude, resisting.” The collection could not be more timely. The work adds a new layer to the ever-growing #MeToo movement.

Resistanceunderscores the validity of all women’s experiences, and the importance of dignifying such experiences in voice, however that may sound. Because once survivors speak out and disrupt their pain, there is no telling what else they can do.

Sue Goyette is the award-winning author of six books of poems and a novel. Now Halifax’s eighth poet laureate, she was nominated for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Award for her collectionOcean, which won several other prizes, including the CBC Literary Prize for Poetry, the Bliss Carman, the Earle Birney, the Pat Lowther, and the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award. She lives in Halifax and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie University. The poems inResistancedo more than resist: they testify and bear witness, grieve and lament, howl and spark& A deeply moving and urgently necessary collection. A monument to defiance against a terrible, pervasive darkness, demanding our attention and action. Resistanceclaims poetry is essential to processing pain . . . . and these voices can seek to claim safety back through resilience and resistance.lã)