Poems for a New World

By Connie Fife

Connie Fife is one of Canada's warrior poets. Poems for a New World, her third book of poems, refuses to take prisoners. She writes of Oka and Gustafson Lake, of the police shooting of a Native mother and child, as well as the NATO genocide in Yugoslavia. Reflecting on her own life, she carves out a space for new forms of loving that will act as a transforming force for people of all colours so that they may breathe the air of freedom, the air of a world rich in biodiversity. Revolutionary as they may be, these poems also care about language, about how language can become the food and joy of life. As she says, " I have prepared a bowl of ripened poems / with which to ease our hunger," placed an " empty gourd" beside the bed of love which waits " to be filled by our stories carried / across the heartlands of distance we will have travelled." These are poems of revolution, of love, of inspiration.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0921870906
• ISBN13: 9780921870906
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Ronsdale Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"