The Red Files - by Lisa Bird-Wilson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This debut poetry collection from Lisa Bird-Wilson reflects on the legacy of the residential school system: the fragmentation of families and histories, with blows that resonate through the generations.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This debut poetry collection from Lisa Bird-Wilson reflects on the legacy of the residential school system: the fragmentation of families and histories, with blows that resonate through the generations.</p><br/> <p>Inspired by family and archival sources, Bird-Wilson assembles scraps of a history torn apart by colonial violence. The collection takes its name from the federal government's complex organizational structure of residential schools archives, which are divided into black files and red files. In vignettes as clear as glass beads, her poems offer affection to generations of children whose presence within the historic record is ghostlike, anonymous and ephemeral.</p><br/> <p>The collection also explores the larger political context driving the mechanisms that tore apart families and cultures, including the Sixties Scoop. It depicts moments of resistance, both personal and political, as well as official attempts at reconciliation: I can hold in the palm of my right hand / all that I have left: one story-gift from an uncle, / a father's surname, treaty card, Cree accent echo, metal bits, grit-- / and I will still have room to cock a fist.</p><br/> <p><em>The Red Files</em> concludes with a fierce hopefulness, embracing the various types of love that can begin to heal the traumas inflicted by a legacy of violence. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>a haunting, beautiful collection. There is warmth, connection, and seeking in these pages ... Bird-Wilson has crafted a book of ghosts, both personal and communal, but, far more importantly, her collection is about the living.</p>-- "Publisher's Weekly"<br>
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