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    Trailer Park Shakes
    Trailer Park Shakes
    Trailer Park Shakes
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    Trailer Park Shakes

    By Justene Dion-Glowa

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    The poems in Trailer Park Shakes are direct and vernacular, rooted in community—a working-class Métis voice rarely heard from.

    These poems, while dreamlike and playful, bear unflinching witness to the workings of injustice—how violence is channeled through institutions and refracted intimately between people, becoming intertwined with the full range of human experience, including care and love. Trailer Park Shakes is a book that seems to want to hold everything—an entire cross-section of lived experience—written by a poet whose courage, attention, and capacity to trace contradiction inspire trust in her words' embrace. Dion-Glowa's poems are quietly philosophical, with a heartfelt, self-possessed politic.

    "Dion-Glowa's voice crackles with frank, startling insight." — Sachiko Murakami, author of Render

    "A collection that should and will rattle your cage and shine a light where it is needed." — John Brady McDonald, author of Kitotam

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateOct 1, 2022
    ISBN9781771315920
    Trailer Park Shakes
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    Justene Dion-Glowa

    Justene Dion-Glowa is a queer Métis creative, beadworker and poet born in Win-Nipi (Winnipeg) and has been residing in Secwepemcú'lecw since 2014. They are a Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity alumni. They have been working in the human services field for nearly a decade. Their microchap, TEETH, is available from Ghost City Press. Trailer Park Shakes is their first full length poetry book.

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