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• Title:[Poems. Selections]
  Children of Air India : un/authorized exhibits and interjections / Renée Sarojini Saklikar.
  
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• Author/Creator:Saklikar, Renée Sarojini author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Jim Wong-Chu Personal Library Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Gibsons, BC, Canada : Nightwood Editions, 2013.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PS8637.A52 C45 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PS8637.A52 C45 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Air-India Flight 182 Bombing Incident, 1985--Poetry.
  Canadian poetry--21st century.
  
• Genre/Form:Poetry.
  
• Description:123 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:Children of air india is a series of elegiac sequences exploring the nature of individual loss, situated within public trauma. The work is animated by a proposition: that violence, both personal and collective, produces continuing sonar, an echolocation that finds us, even when we choose to be unaware or indifferent. This collection breaks new ground in its approach to the saga that is Canada/Air India, an event and its aftermath that is both over-reported and under-represented in our national psyche. 329 deaths. 82 Children. Canada's worst mass murder. The accused acquitted. What does it mean to be Canadian and lose someone in Air India Flight 182? Why does 9/11 resonate more strongly with Canadians than June 23, 1985? The poems in this book search out answers in the "everything/ness and nothing/ness" of an act and its aftermath, revealing a voice that re-defines and re-visions.
  
• Notes:"A blewointment book"
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9780889712874 (pbk.)
  0889712875 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Elegy for courtroom 20 -Vancouver law courts
  in which N imposes meaning
  1985
  in the after-time
  Voir Dire
  in the woods, outside Duncan, British Columbia
  And its dimensions
  For an afterword that might be read as a preface
  Sources consulted.