The Big Melt Riddle Emily
The Big Melt Riddle Emily The Big Melt is a debut poetry collection rooted in nehiyaw thought and urban millennial life events. Part memoir, part research project, this collection draws on Riddle's…
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The Big Melt Riddle Emily
The Big Melt is a debut poetry collection rooted in nehiyaw thought and urban millennial life events. Part memoir, part research project, this collection draws on Riddle's experience working in Indigenous governance and her affection for confessional poetry in crafting feminist works that are firmly rooted in place. It examines what it means to repair kinship, contend with fraught history, go home and contemplate prairie ndn utopia in the era of late capitalism and climate change.
The Big Melt is about inheriting a Treaty relationship just as much as it is about breakups, demonstrating that governance is just as much about our interpersonal relationships as it is law and policy. This book refuses a linear understanding of time in its focus on women in the author's family, some who have passed and others who are yet to come. How does one live one's life in a way that honours