No Town Called We

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No Town Called We writes through the death of elders, early pandemic panic, and the climate crisis through the lens of the multiply disabled, female-coded body approaching midlife. Carrying forth the feminist complaints and refusals of Reimers last book of poetry, My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan, No Town Called We continues to punch 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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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.