No Town Called We
No Town Called We writes through the death of elders, social panic, and the climate crisis via the lens of the multiply disabled, female-coded body approaching midlife. Punching through the veils of complacency and greed that shape the cultures of the petrostate, these poems are meditations on an emergency, dispatches from wombat burrows and prairie hospitals. They consider the variegated forms grief can take, both marking and resisting their own decay. Reimer asks: How do you and I relate? How might we commune? Can we enjoy our sick prostrated time? What does it mean to occupy a land? What duty of care do we owe each other? And poet, what have you done with the moon?

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No Town Called We
No Town Called We writes through the death of elders, social panic, and the climate crisis via the lens of the multiply disabled, female-coded body approaching midlife. Punching through the veils of complacency and greed that shape the cultures of the petrostate, these poems are meditations on an emergency, dispatches from wombat burrows and prairie hospitals. They consider the variegated forms grief can take, both marking and resisting their own decay. Reimer asks: How do you and I relate? How might we commune? Can we enjoy our sick prostrated time? What does it mean to occupy a land? What duty of care do we owe each other? And poet, what have you done with the moon?

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No Town Called We

No Town Called We

by Nikki Reimer
No Town Called We

No Town Called We

by Nikki Reimer

Overview

No Town Called We writes through the death of elders, social panic, and the climate crisis via the lens of the multiply disabled, female-coded body approaching midlife. Punching through the veils of complacency and greed that shape the cultures of the petrostate, these poems are meditations on an emergency, dispatches from wombat burrows and prairie hospitals. They consider the variegated forms grief can take, both marking and resisting their own decay. Reimer asks: How do you and I relate? How might we commune? Can we enjoy our sick prostrated time? What does it mean to occupy a land? What duty of care do we owe each other? And poet, what have you done with the moon?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781772015492
Publisher: Talonbooks, Limited
Publication date: 10/17/2023
Pages: 93
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Nikki Reimer is a multimedia artist and writer and a chronically ill neurodivergent prairie settler currently living in Mohkinstsis (Calgary). She has been involved with arts and writing communities, primarily in Mohkinstsis and Vancouver, for over twenty years. They are the author of four books of poetry and multiple essays on grief. GRIEFWAVE.com, a multimedia, web-based, extended elegy, was launched in February 2022. Frequent themes Reimer explores through their work include feminism, the body, the Anthropocene, late capitalism, death, grief, loss, and animal subjectivity.

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In No Town Called We, Nikki Reimer surveys ‘a fresh syndrome landscape / part beautiful’ for people who know the time for reassurance is past. This is a pained, living, exposed nerve-ending of a book, part beautiful, part funny, fighting for its existence in a frustrating, ridiculous, real way. Yes we.


Bipedal fuck-ups R us. Nikki Reimer brings grief and snark to the crises of late-stage capitalism in No Town Called We, poising these poems at the perpetual threshold of the burning twenty-First century and asking: If no one is coming to save us, how do we call ourselves ‘we'


In No Town Called We, Nikki Reimer reckons with solidarity in a town where development after development subdivides us. Caught between their individual body and our social body, between a migraine and a global-health emergency, Reimer side-eyes our disconnections through demovicted sightlines. These poems make complaint riotous!

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