Book record
Spawn
Marie-Andrée Gill
Translated from French by Kristen Renee Miller
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.
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- Bookhug
- Language
- French
- Country
- Canada
- ISBN
- 9781771665971