Poems excerpted from the conference paper

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1

There would be a map here
Fold-line at Vancouver
And when the creased pages met
Whitehorse would kiss California

2

There would be a map here
A digital crystal of snow
Spinning over Calgary
Like a page that can't load

Secret feature: tap the edge
And the map flips over
the underside red
As the raw country under skin
The legend says: hellfire

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For context, the first poem comes above my analysis of Ivan Coyote's regional poetics and the second above my analysis of Rae Spoon's same, which include a violent evangelical home life.

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Comments

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Rae and Geoff Berner are doing a show here later this month and I plan to go! I have a signed copy of Rae's first album, and their first book! I am cool, too! (okay, the album was signed for my brother, not me, because they knew each other in high school but still!)