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Country Music

Please stand and remove your cynicism

John Allemang

Bountiful Diversity

A leading Québécois scholar’s appreciative look at Canada’s biggest province

Barbara Yaffe

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Naoko Asano

The Telling Stream

Merle Nudelman

 

For Richard B. Wright

 

He binds them without knot, twine or even splice,

binds the agreeable words one to the other and others

like the elements of water they cleave in storied delight

while each continues to expound:

sprung leaves on a rushing stream, unbound.

Merle Nudelman

Merle Nudelman is a lawyer, poet, editor and teacher. Her first collection, Borrowed Light (Guernica, 2003), won the 2004 Canadian Jewish Book Award for Poetry. True as Moonlight, which is her fourth poetry collection, will be released in 2014. Her other books are We, the Women and The He We Knew, both published by Guernica in 2006 and 2010 respectively. She is poetry editor of the journal Parchment.

Related Letters and Responses

María Helena Auerbach Rykov Toronto

I am thankful for this review of The Uncaged Voice: Stories of Writers in Exile. The emerging field of critical refugee studies, however, cautions us to avoid the “trauma porn of precarity,” including tropes of escape, despair, and rescue. 

The book’s accomplished writers are more than their suffering. Their voices — testaments to agency and moral courage — enrich Canada and the Canadian writing community.

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