{"product_id":"dion-glowa-justene-trailer-papb","title":"Dion-Glowa, Justene: Trailer Park Shakes","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrick Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 1, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: 2023 Indigenous Voices Awards Shortlist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eTrailer Park Shakes\u003c\/i\u003e are direct and vernacular, rooted in community - a working-class Métis voice rarely heard from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese 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. \u003ci\u003eTrailer Park Shakes\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Dion-Glowa's voice crackles with frank, startling insight.\" - Sachiko Murakami, author of \u003ci\u003eRender\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A collection that should and will rattle your cage and shine a light where it is needed.\" - John Brady McDonald, author of \u003ci\u003eKitotam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40604997124119,"sku":"9781771315906","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/ibg.common.titledetail_831373f5-13fb-4adb-9c1e-c9af8736ee78.gif?v=1689797203","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/dion-glowa-justene-trailer-papb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}