{"product_id":"continuity-errors-paperback","title":"Continuity Errors - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCatriona Wright\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN SPRING 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeminist poems both serious and absurd that question our obsession with productivity instead of with care.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContinuity Errors\u003c\/i\u003e questions the privileging of work and productivity over rest and care from an ecological and feminist perspective. Written before and immediately after the birth of her first child, these poems try to imagine the future her son will inherit. Encounters with an unusual cast of characters - including lonely cryptids, unrepentant grifters, and persistent ghosts - provide incomplete answers, and while the continuity errors keep multiplying around her, Wright pauses to consider whether our devotion to innovation is keeping us stuck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Catriona Wright's \u003ci\u003eContinuity Errors\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of snaking moves and sneaking intellect, a book of style and fortitude and sass. Wright's always sharp and often eerie interrogations lead us through a world of cryptocurrency, grunt work, predictive policing, extinction, haute cuisine, billboard ads, smoke breaks, breast pumps; these are poems for our moment of onslaught and bewilderment that, having had the world forced down their throats, spit back.\" \u003cb\u003e- Natalie Shapero, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePopular Longing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatriona Wright is the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eTable Manners\u003c\/i\u003e (Véhicule Press, 2017) and the short story collection \u003ci\u003eDifficult People\u003c\/i\u003e (Nightwood Editions, 2018). Her short stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eGeist, Joyland, Grain, The New Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePrism International, Prairie Fire, Fiddlehead\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLemon Hound\u003c\/i\u003e, and they have been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and in \u003ci\u003eThe Best Canadian Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e 2015 and 2018. She is the poetry editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Puritan\u003c\/i\u003e and a co-founder of Desert Pets Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.3 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 23, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42734741127231,"sku":"9781552454596","price":22.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/64215c5d373d61cb48d713f6cfd75f09.webp?v=1765140928","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/continuity-errors-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}