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Scientific Marvel

Poems

April 2, 2024 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9781487012250
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Description

Finalist, 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry

Marked by rhythmic drive, humour, and surprise, Undi's poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Firmly grounded in the local, the arresting poems in Chimwemwe Undi's debut collection, Scientific Marvel, are preoccupied with Winnipeg in the way a Winnipegger is preoccupied with Winnipeg, the way a poet might be preoccupied with herself: through history and immigration; race and gender; anxieties and observation. Marked by rhythmic drive, humour and surprise, Undi's poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the west. Taking its title from a beauty school in downtown Winnipeg that closed in 2017 after nearly 100 years of operation, Scientific Marvel approaches the prairies from the point of view of a person who is often erased from the prairies' idea of itself. "I mean my country the way / my country means my country / and what else is there to say? / I am bad and brown / and trying. Nothing here / belongs to me or could / or ever will."

This is poetry that touches on challenging topics-from queerness and colonialism to racism, climate rage, and decolonization, while never straying far from specific lived experience, the so-called 'smaller' questions: about self, art, dance parties and pop culture, relationships and love.

About this Author

ISBN: 9781487012250
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 96
Publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc
Published: 2024-04-02

Reviews

"Incisive and precise, tender and loving, these poems escort readers through questions of race and place, disappeared histories, immigration, gender and climate angst ... A captivating debut, Scientific Marvel transforms through tough lessons and uplifts through lively language play - and, of course, love." - Toronto Star

"Politically astute, rigorously loving, lyrically deft debut collection." - Herizons 

"Scientific Marvel is intelligent and incisive ... perceptive and vulnerable." - The Miramichi Reader

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