Bush Camp

By Marvin Francis ISBN: 9780888013248 format: Paperback pages: 60 publisher: Turnstone Press pub. date: 2008-04-15

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Both a politically engaged achievement and a highly personal one, Bush Camp is a fitting addition to the unmistakeable idiom of Marvin Francis.

A dynamic poetry collection of dry wit and powerful commentary, Bush Camp features a roster of strikingly original characters--Johnny Muskeg, Newfie, Stretch, as well as the camp's only women, Jenny--that plays with stereotypes as it challenges them. Francis describes the physical rigors of a railroad camp as well as the complex demands of the urban reserve.

Poems splash out on the page in a wildly creative exploration of the clash of rural and urban, First Nation and majority cultures. Bush Camp is a new kind of howl.

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