Spawn by Marie-Andrée Gill and translated by Kristen Renee Miller

This is poetry from Canada.

Spawn by Marie-Andrée Gill translated by Kristen Renee Miller is published by Bookhug. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2020.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781771665971E12.

Spawn, by Marie-Andrée Gill and translated by Kristen Renee Miller, is a title full of origin, reproduction, water, and unsettling abundance. Gill’s work often brings together Indigenous presence, desire, land, and the bodily force of language, and Spawn sounds like a book alert to beginnings that are not clean or sentimental. To spawn is to generate life in quantity, to release something into a current, to participate in a cycle larger than the individual self. I would read this collection for its creaturely intelligence and its refusal to separate ecology from intimacy. Miller’s translation gives English readers a way into a poetics where the body is not isolated from land, ancestry, or weather.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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