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Join us for an evening with critically acclaimed and internationally celebrated poet Canisia Lubrin as she brings her new collection, Bright Machine (McClelland & Stewart) to Winnipeg. Featuring a reading and a conversation hosted by Chimwemwe Undi, followed by a book signing.https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9780771019951/canisia-lubrin/bright-machine
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/OZBb86pnWc8
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In Bright Machine, Canisia Lubrin gives poetic scrutiny to the legacy of human intelligence put in service of ruin. Using the fragmented music of Morse code, this poem tussles with the evolution of warcraft and the possibility for cohabitation. The result is a book of chimeric monologues using an invented form Lubrin calls the tesseract—a poem of sixteen lines, shaped in the logic of the mathematical cube—four stanzas: 4 lines + 5 lines + 6 lines + 1 line.
Addressing the myth of the developed world and its heirs and casualties, the poet names key weapons that guarantee(d) the rise and successes of ancient and modern empires. Lubrin reckons with the saga of civilization as the story of weapons history and its emissaries’ expansive appetites for recasting conquest and mass killing. Bright Machine is, all at once, heartening, urgent poetry for a turbulent world.
Canisia Lubrin's work has been recognized by the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Windham-Campbell Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. She is the author of three previous poetry collections (Voodoo Hypothesis, The Dyzgraphxst, and The World After Rain) and an award-winning, acclaimed work of fiction, Code Noir. Born in St. Lucia, Lubrin now lives in Whitby, Ontario, and is the poetry editor at McClelland & Stewart.
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McNally Robinson Booksellers, McNally Robinson for Kids, 1120 Grant Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3M, Canada
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