Lot

"How do we talk about the history of this land? How do we talk about the ruptures of colonization? How do we talk about naming, un-naming, and re-naming? How do we talk about the violences of language? Sarah de Leeuw's Lot engages with all of these questions through a long poem that drifts through language in the sense that it refuses capture and containment. To draw a line around what this work is would do a disservice to de Leeuw's project of exploding boundaries. Lot is about existing in relation to land and place. Lot is about resilience and hope. Lot is essential."

—Jordan Abel, author of NISHGA, Injun, and The Place of Scraps

“When I think ‘poetic voice’, I think about transforming, informing and transcending from the obvious to equivocal. Sarah de Leeuw’s poetic voice does this and so much more in her new collection of poetry, Lot. ‘It is light and dark;’ it is ‘intellectually, and moral(ly) superior to any others.’ The command de Leeuw has with poetic language and insight is astounding. This book is ‘bones and star solid’ starkly honouring one of Canada’s treasures—Haida Gwaii. Read it! And you will see.”

—Garry Gottfriedson, Secwepemc poet, author of Glass Tepee, Skin Like Mine, and Clinging to the Bone