Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real

Following Surani's previous collectionOperations, which excavated the debasement done to language by nations worldwide, how does one return to using language for poetry?Are the Rivers in Your Poems Realresponds to this question. Amidst the dangers of figurative language, the coercion of sentimentality and the insidious freight of abstraction, these poems embody the necessity for the critical, the communal, the real. This collection uses conceptual critiques of public discourse and experimental social cartographies, as well as lyrics of intimacy, to defy prescribed ways of being.

Are the Rivers in Your Poems Realis an act of resistance against dangerous and domineering narrativesand the power they inscribe. (From Book*Hug Press)

Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real is available in Sept. 2019.

Moez Surani is the Toronto-based author of three other works of poetry: Reticent Bodies, Floating Life and Operations.

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