{"product_id":"9780889712157","title":"Birch Split Bark","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her debut collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eBirch Split Bark\u003c\/i\u003e, Diane Guichon uses a quintessentially Canadian image -- a birch bark canoe -- to speak of those private waters that make us universally human. By writing in the first person of a father, a mother, a son and a daughter, she bridges age to gender, myth to memory and hatred to reconciliation. These poems are brave and brilliantly voiced and her descriptions are as haunting as a loon's concerto on a silent summer lake. Guichon's characters speak to the plurality of Canadian identity; in four distinct voices, Guichon pulls apart the myths that have created us and continue to dictate who we must be. \u003ci\u003eBirch Split Bark\u003c\/i\u003e proves that canoes will always write history upon their waters just as poets will write humanity upon the page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightwood Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033897582832,"sku":"9780889712157","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889712157_p0.jpg?v=1763855751","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889712157","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}