Talonbooks, paperback
Publication Date: October 17th, 2023
Publisher Marketing: No Town Called We writes through the death of elders, early pandemic panic, and the climate crisis through the lens of the multiply disabled, female-coded body approaching midlife. Carrying forth the feminist complaints and refusals of Reimer's last book of poetry, My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan, No Town Called We continues to punch through the veils of complacency and greed that shape the cultures of the petrostate. These poems are meditations on an emergency, dispatches from wombat burrows and prairie hospitals. They consider the variegated forms grief can take, both marking and resisting their own decay. Reimer asks: How do you and I relate? How might we commune? Can we enjoy our sick prostrated time? What does it mean to occupy a land? What duty of care do we owe each other? And poet, what have you done with the moon?
