num_pages: 152
description: This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed collection Islands of Decolonial Love. Provocateur and poet she continually rebirths a decolonized reality one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable categorization. A crow watches over a deer addicted to road salt; Lake Ontario floods Toronto to remake the world while texting ARE THEY GETTING IT?; lovers visit the last remaining corner of the boreal forest; three comrades guerrilla-tap maples in an upper middle-class neighbourhood; and Kwe gets her firearms license in rural Ontario. Blending elements of Nishnaabeg storytelling science fiction contemporary realism and the lyric voice This Accident of Being Lost burns with a quiet intensity like a campfire in your backyard challenging you to reconsider the world you thought you knew.
language: English
title: This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories
publisher: Astoria