Trailer Park Shakes

By Justene Dion-Glowa

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 INDIGENOUS VOICES AWARD

The poems in Trailer Park Shakes are direct and vernacular, rooted in community--a working-class M tis voice rarely heard from.

These poems, while dreamlike and playful, bear unflinching witness to the workings of injustice--how violence is channeled through institutions and refracted intimately between people, becoming intertwined with the full range of human experience, including care and love. Trailer Park Shakes is a book that seems to want to hold everything--an entire cross-section of lived experience--written by a poet whose courage, attention, and capacity to trace contradiction inspire trust in her words' embrace. Dion-Glowa's poems are quietly philosophical, with a heartfelt, self-possessed politic.

"Dion-Glowa's voice crackles with frank, startling insight."--Sachiko Murakami, author of Render

"A collection that should and will rattle your cage and shine a light where it is needed."--John Brady McDonald, author of Kitotam

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771315903
• ISBN13: 9781771315906
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Brick Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 8.4"