Bonfires Bruce McIvor Equal to the strength and

Equal to the strength and wisdom of the memoir

part-dreamer - telling it like it is about cultural contradictions

5 in - 168 pp

BISAC Subject(s): POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship

at a time when movements like Idle No More call for a national inquiry into the missing and murdered Aboriginal women

Bonfires Bruce McIvor Equal to the strength andDescription Bringing Canadian poetry back to the achingly honest tradition of John Newlove and Bronwen Wallace, Chris Banks eschews linguistic showmanship, sketching in deft strokes the foreignness of things familiar. Framed within the rural landscape of southwestern Ontario and Al Purdy's "country north of Belleville," Banks turns his pen to modern life and the small domestic urgencies that arise from it. This is a landscape we are all familiar with