SCAR/CITY
eBook - ePub

SCAR/CITY

  1. 152 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

SCAR/CITY

About this book

When the trees came down no one knew how / to interpret the light. homeless / it bounces off glass surfaces / pierces the wandering eye-

These poems walk streets and take snapshots of the impact financialization of our homes has on our sense of community and belonging.

Meandering through physical and philosophical materials - cement, memory, water, narrative, history, sand, light, concrete, and others’ voices - Daniela Elza documents this urgent moment. The reader winds through fragments amidst urban fragmentation. A sequence of triptych poems hearkens to silos, skyscrapers, and streets. Readers here have a choice: they can read across the page or down. She channels Syrian architect Marwa Al-Sabouni, who says, “The fabric of our cities is reflected in the fabric of our souls.” SCAR/CITY emerges from the Vancouver context to take on global issues of predatory finance and a market that mines homes for profit. It steps outside of binary conversations in favour of poetic reflection and interrogates a system that results in perceptible depravity and scarcity, which leaves us homeless, metaphorically and literally.

French philosopher Gaston Bachelard says, “The space we love is unwilling to remain permanently enclosed … Space calls for action, and before action, the imagination is at work.” Amidst negotiations and advocacy in the fight for security of tenure and lease renewal, SCAR/CITY is a poetic call to action.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Epitaph
  7. Contents
  8. and walking is thinking I
  9. <> scar/city
  10. and walking is thinking II
  11. <> city conversations
  12. and walking is thinking IV
  13. shortcutting
  14. Trans Am Totem (what does a piece of art?
  15. 159 Hastings (golden age neon
  16. and walking is thinking VII
  17. <> adver/city
  18. and walking is thinking III
  19. <> adver/city II
  20. the cold winter took a long time
  21. and walking is thinking V
  22. <> con/versions
  23. and walking is thinking VI
  24. <> con/versions II
  25. and walking is thinking VIII
  26. (in the nightmares of nomenclature
  27. asp.halt spring
  28. a walk d.own apostrophe lane
  29. city of reFlexions
  30. defining our terms
  31. and walking is thinking X
  32. this falling
  33. what we leave at eternity’s door
  34. time unspools us
  35. and walking is thinking IX
  36. dying for answers
  37. fragmented | summer
  38. wednesday. rainfall.
  39. :timeline: postmortem:
  40. :g/loss/ary:
  41. :sources:
  42. :acknowledgments:
  43. :under construction: