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Even This Page Is White


Title Even This Page Is White
Writer Vivek Shraya
Date 2024-10-11 08:53:28
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Desciption

Vivek's debut collection of poetry is a bold and timely interrogation of skin: its origins, functions, and limitations. Poems that range in style from starkly concrete to limber break down the barriers that prevent understanding of what it means to be racialized. Shraya paints the face of everyday racism with words, rendering it visible, tangible, and undeniable.


Review

Amazingly, this is not the first book of poems by a transgender or gender fluid Canadian person-of-color that I've read in the last two weeks (the previous was A Place Called No Homeland, also highly recommended.) Another great read for National Poetry Month.The subheadings of these poems should draw anyone in - "white dreams," "whitespeak," "how to talk to a white person," "the origins of skin," and "brown dreams." Clearly this collection will speak to race, what it is to live as a person of color in a white dominated world (I mean it's Canada!), and the intersectionality of that reality alongside lgbt living. Lots of fodder there for great poetry!white dreams"i have white dreams...but even my bonesare white...even this pageis whiteso i protest this page..."

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