SFU professor of First Nations Studies, Dr. annie ross' debut book, Pots and Other Living Beings (Talonbooks $19.95) combines her poems and selected photographs to describe postmodern life since the proliferation of nuclear weapons began in the 1940s and 50s. They emphasize disillusionment, failed utopias and dispossessions. In her poem fix it, ross writes of a desert highway: "swarm of Grasshoppers / looking for dinner, yes? / if i had anything, i would give it to you / no one planted, i didn't // how hot can it be / did we do this? / mercilessly, we did this. / the long meandering highway / stares blankly at the Sky // what, here for a Wolf to eat? / the sign reads, good beef jerky, thirty-four miles ahead / everything is always / somewhere else."

Following upon her debut book of poems Pots and Other Living Beings (Talonbooks, 2019), which combined her verses with selected photographs, annie ross anchors poems with woodcut prints in her second collection of poetry, Some People Fall in the Lodge and Then Eat Berries All Winter (Talonbooks $19.95). She continues to express the pain of species extinctions, environmental injustice and the soul loss in modern life but juxtaposes these with animal rights and power, and keeping peace and love with Mother Earth in view.

BOOKS:

Pots and Other Living Beings (Talonbooks 2019) $19.95 9781772012361

Some People Fall in the Lodge and Then Eat Berries All Winter (Talonbooks, 2022) $19.95 9781772024396

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