{"product_id":"deepwater-vee-isbn-9780771080333","title":"Deepwater Vee","description":"Melanie Siebert’s stunning debut collection travels remote northern rivers, as well as two of Canada’s most threatened rivers, the Athabasca and the North Saskatchewan. These rivers push the poems into a contemplation of loss and into the terrain of Alexander Mackenzie’s dreams, a busker’s broken-down street riffs, and the borderland wanderings of a grandmother whose absence is felt as a presence. The poems’ currents are turbulent, braided, submerged. Narrative streams appear like tributaries glimpsed through brush, and then veer into unexpected territories, where boundaries blur – between the self and the other, between the living and the dead, between the human and the wild – and loss carries with it both music and silence. In this virtuoso collection, Melanie Siebert has transformed language into that rarest thing, a singular poetic vision.Current \u003cbr\u003eDeepwater Vee \u003cbr\u003eBellanca Esker \u003cbr\u003eAlsek Lake \u003cbr\u003eBridge to Shell’s Albian Mine, Downstream, River Right \u003cbr\u003eBusker \u003cbr\u003eBusker \u003cbr\u003eSurf City \u003cbr\u003eMackenzie ’s Dream \u003cbr\u003eChoker \u003cbr\u003eBusker \u003cbr\u003eSkull Canyon \u003cbr\u003eUnnamed Creek \u003cbr\u003eBusker \u003cbr\u003eMackenzie ’s Dream \u003cbr\u003eGrandmother \u003cbr\u003eGrandmother \u003cbr\u003eHell Roaring Creek \u003cbr\u003eBusker \u003cbr\u003eGrass Hills, River Left, Downstream of Battleford \u003cbr\u003eGrandmother \u003cbr\u003eThe Limit of Travels in This Direction \u003cbr\u003eBusker \u003cbr\u003eMackenzie, Having Not Seen a Star Since Leaving Athabasca \u003cbr\u003eBusker \u003cbr\u003eShifting, Overrun, the Symptoms, the Shoals Building \u003cbr\u003eD’Aoust Esker \u003cbr\u003eNadlok—place where the deer cross \u003cbr\u003eMap Unrolled on the Table \u003cbr\u003eGrandmother \u003cbr\u003eLetter to Kitty, Never Written \u003cbr\u003eLong After Leaving, Being Overtaken with the Consequences of Suffering in the Northwest \u003cbr\u003eLetter to Kitty, Never Written \u003cbr\u003eLetter to Kitty, Never Written \u003cbr\u003eLetter to Kitty, Never Written \u003cbr\u003eLetter to Kitty, Never Written \u003cbr\u003eLetter to Kitty, Never Written \u003cbr\u003eDusk \u003cbr\u003eWindbound, Unnamed Camp \u003cbr\u003eTlogotsho—big place of grass \u003cbr\u003eDouble-Barrel Lake \u003cbr\u003eThe Splits \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003eMELANIE SIEBERT is the author of \u003ci\u003eDeepwater Vee\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry. Her nonfiction book \u003ci\u003eHeads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health\u003c\/i\u003e won the Lane Anderson Award for best science writing for young readers in Canada and was a finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize. Melanie grew up in Treaty 6 territory in Saskatchewan, raised as a white, third-generation settler of European\/Mennonite heritage. She now lives in the Pacific Northwest on the beautiful homelands of the W̱SÁNEĆ Nations and the Lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. Melanie practices attachment-focused and nature-based therapy in Victoria, BC.\u003cb\u003eCURRENT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOn your knees in a boat with sweet rocker and no keel, water pillows\u003cbr\u003eup against the red hull with its silt hiss. You sight the drops between\u003cbr\u003eboulders, gear and your yeah-buts, your okay-maybes lashed tight, and\u003cbr\u003eyou heel the canoe on its side for the swift eddy-in, the river’s leggy coltgleam.\u003cbr\u003eSpruce reel by, the limestone peaks, skids of outwash. The river\u003cbr\u003esticks a coin behind its ear, pulls two from its wrist.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eYou’ve brought food from far away, burned fuel climbing the passes\u003cbr\u003eto the Great Divide, ramped, crevassed, the great glacier spilling three\u003cbr\u003eways: Pacific, Arctic, Atlantic. You’re taking the low moan of miles\u003cbr\u003ehome, heading east, northeast, the winded push to the Interior Plains.\u003cbr\u003eEven sandstone and the shale beds of the foothills weather in.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRiver of mixed tongues and guns traded west, frayed edge of the\u003cbr\u003emuscle-old herds chewing the hills, fringe between grassland and aspen\u003cbr\u003eparkland. The river opaque in all seasons, cartilage, cash flow. When\u003cbr\u003ePeter Erasmus first tried the ford, his horse shook him loose and he\u003cbr\u003ewould’ve drowned but someone yelled, \u003ci\u003eGrab her tail. \u003c\/i\u003eRiver of last hunts,\u003cbr\u003ethe Thirst Dance, the broad forehead of Horsechild, just a boy sweating\u003cbr\u003eat his father’s side on the long walk to surrender at Carlton in the wolfy\u003cbr\u003ebreath-heat of the downcast grass.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRiver, slab of the weathered-down, low under the long hunger, low to\u003cbr\u003ethe bulked-up meat of the farms, low now, low under the berms of the\u003cbr\u003efat lip. Thick backs of murky sturgeon, sinew of the who-knows-where.\u003cbr\u003eAnd the river slows, gull-flush and scavenging, and you cruise on the\u003cbr\u003egaze of deer, lowrider sliding the afternoon in the valley of the willow\u003cbr\u003eof stealth. Opal. Inner wrist of what’s left.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eYou carry water from taps and don’t know how to eat what’s here. You\u003cbr\u003ehaven’t built your boat, still you take a bearing in the magnetic field of\u003cbr\u003erunoff, beam your signals to the satellites of fallen birds. And this boat\u003cbr\u003egrafts you to water’s big-winged glide, its giveaway, the cool salve of its\u003cbr\u003egoing-going-gone, pushing to a wavering long-held note. Inner wrist,\u003cbr\u003eunderworld. Water on the downgrade, flowing loaded and filmed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eNorth Saskatchewan River\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304326975717,"sku":"NP9780771080333","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771080333.jpg?v=1767724958","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/deepwater-vee-isbn-9780771080333","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}