Undoing Hours
Selina Boan
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Undoing Hours
Selina Boan
About This Book
Selina Boan's debut poetry collection, Undoing Hours, considers the various ways we undo, inherit, reclaim and (re)learn. Boan's poems emphasize sound and breath. They tell stories of meeting family, of experiencing love and heartbreak, and of learning new ways to express and understand the world around her through nêhiyawêwin.
As a settler and urban nehiyaw who grew up disconnected from her father's family and community, Boan turns to language as one way to challenge the impact of assimilation policies and colonization on her own being and the landscapes she inhabits. Exploring the nexus of language and power, the effects of which are both far-reaching and deeply intimate, these poems consider the ways language impacts the way we view and construct the world around us. Boan also explores what it means to be a white settler–nehiyaw woman actively building community and working to ground herself through language and relationships. Boan writes from a place of linguistic tension, tenderness and care, creating space to ask questions and to imagine intimate decolonial futures.
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Table of contents
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- the plot so far
- meet cree: a practical guide to language
- morning in our apartment, a small, wet funeral
- ongoing conversations with my acne
- a run, a burn, a beck
- in six, the seasons
- how to find your father
- love poem on a break
- my mother’s oracle cards said
- body humour
- small talk
- in cree there is no word for half/brother
- inside this hour / another hour inside / another hour
- minimal pairs are words holding hands
- what you miss doesn’t always matter and vice versa
- ongoing conversations with nitôn
- alter, ego
- with love,
- emails with nohtâwiy
- campaign for my body’s mess
- 2.1.a questions and answers
- email drafts to nohtâwiy
- i didn’t know the future would be another love poem
- on wanting
- suck it up <3
- run the hurt
- ᐸᐢᑎᐯᐤ
- have you ever fallen in love with a day?
- all you can is the best you can
- ongoing conversations with nitêh
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author