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Bird’s work is highly concerned with how outer and inner landscapes move and change within the confines of the English language, particularly the “I” of the self, a tradition of movement that has been lost for many who don’t speak their Indigenous languages or live on their homelands. By exploring the landscapes the poet does inhabit, both internally and externally, Bird’s poems seek to delve into and reflect their cultural lineages—specifically Saulteaux, Cree, and Métis—and how these transformative identities shape the person they are today.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eI am made of centuries \u0026amp; carbohydrates\u003cbr\u003e\r\nthe development of my molars\u003cbr\u003e\r\nthe hunger the teeth grew\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhas been with me since childhood\u003cbr\u003e\r\nI can’t escape the mouths of others\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-02-23T16:49:40-05:00","created_at":"2023-02-23T15:53:49-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Poetry","By (author) Bird Brandi","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2023-08-08"],"price":1699,"price_min":1699,"price_max":1999,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41136186622011,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011826","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The All + Flesh - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1999,"weight":168,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487011826","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41136228007995,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011833","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The All + Flesh - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1699,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011833","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_863bc8db-0462-426a-9eb4-e09975e5cf5e.jpg?v=1693066448"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_863bc8db-0462-426a-9eb4-e09975e5cf5e.jpg?v=1693066448","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: The All + Flesh, poems by Brandi Bird. 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The brush strokes are cross-hatched in the sky, giving the appearance of downward motion, while the ground appears sponged.","id":23738560708667,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_863bc8db-0462-426a-9eb4-e09975e5cf5e.jpg?v=1693066448"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_863bc8db-0462-426a-9eb4-e09975e5cf5e.jpg?v=1693066448","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrandi Bird's frank, transcendent poetry explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory in this long-anticipated debut collection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBrandi Bird’s long-anticipated debut poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eThe All + Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e, explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory that connect its author to their chosen kin, blood relatives, and ancestral lands. By examining kinship in broader contexts, these frank, transcendent poems expose binaries that exist inside those relationships, then inspect and tease them apart in the hope of moving toward decolonial future(s). Bird’s work is highly concerned with how outer and inner landscapes move and change within the confines of the English language, particularly the “I” of the self, a tradition of movement that has been lost for many who don’t speak their Indigenous languages or live on their homelands. By exploring the landscapes the poet does inhabit, both internally and externally, Bird’s poems seek to delve into and reflect their cultural lineages—specifically Saulteaux, Cree, and Métis—and how these transformative identities shape the person they are today.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eI am made of centuries \u0026amp; carbohydrates\u003cbr\u003e\r\nthe development of my molars\u003cbr\u003e\r\nthe hunger the teeth grew\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhas been with me since childhood\u003cbr\u003e\r\nI can’t escape the mouths of others\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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They are a fourth year BFA student at the University of British Columbia, but their heart is always yearning for the prairies.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Bird, Brandi (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrandi Bird's frank, transcendent poetry explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory in this long-anticipated debut collection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBrandi Bird’s long-anticipated debut poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eThe All + Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e, explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory that connect its author to their chosen kin, blood relatives, and ancestral lands. By examining kinship in broader contexts, these frank, transcendent poems expose binaries that exist inside those relationships, then inspect and tease them apart in the hope of moving toward decolonial future(s). Bird’s work is highly concerned with how outer and inner landscapes move and change within the confines of the English language, particularly the “I” of the self, a tradition of movement that has been lost for many who don’t speak their Indigenous languages or live on their homelands. 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That’s the power of Bird’s poems—they resonate at such a visceral and cerebral level that they become a part of you. \u003cem\u003eThe All + Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e marks the arrival of an endlessly moving and astounding voice in Indigenous poetry. I, for one, will be reading these poems for the rest of my life.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of A MINOR CHORUS","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe All + Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e, Brandi Bird maps the psychic space between ‘NDN compartmentalization’ and split prairies, from bus depots to ‘endocrine storms,’ from LiveJournal to a living history of relocation under land theft. ‘My body is not an empire but first contact happened at \/ birth’ and ‘I eat \/ until my mouth needles \/ the dark.’ With exacting lucidity, Bird’s lyrics chart the body as a reservoir for colonial malice, a site of resistance, and a conduit for a voice that is visceral, immediate, and uncompromising. An absolute triumph of a debut.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Liz Howard, author of Letters in a Bruised Cosmos","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eA stunning collection with carefully crafted, searing poems that refuse artifice, indirectness, and voyeurism. Brandi Bird writes the experience of illness and Indigeneity into a world that accepts illness only if it perpetuates colonial beauty and body standards, then interrogates the racist systems that disallow care and compassion for Indigenous people. These poems are tender and surprising; they are holes travelling through time and space. 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The All + Flesh
Brandi Bird's frank, transcendent poetry explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory in this long-anticipated debut collection.
