Outside, America Kim La Fave declarative statements piled next to

declarative statements piled next to and atop each other like bricks

ISBN: 9780889712447

as the West Coast poet puzzles over ‘home

an anthem stripped of patriotic fervor that truly sings of the past many would rather forget and the current state of Indigenous/settler race relations in Canada

In the opening and closing sequences

Outside, America Kim La Fave declarative statements piled next toDescription Outside, America criss crosses the CanadianAmerican border to understand dilemmas that occur across a variety of scales, from global spheres to the most intimate domestic spaces. Sarah de Leeuw digs through grief, loss, aging, technological frustration, environmental degradation, nationalism and confusion to grasp the state of the world. These poems are tethered to everything from climate change and scientific discovery to the death of