An Evening with Jesse Thistle (Stars & Scars), hosted by Rosanna Deerchild
Schedule
Thu Oct 20 2022 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm
Location
McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg, MB
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Join Jesse Thistle, the #1 bestselling author of From the Ashes, as he returns to Winnipeg to read and discuss his new book, Scars and Stars (McClelland & Stewart). Hosted by Rosanna Deerchild.
In Scars and Stars, Jesse Thistle digs deeper into the poetic form, which is especially close to his heart. Charting his own history, the stories of people from his past, the burning intensity of new and unexpected love, the complex legacies of family and community, and the beauty of parenthood, this collection is a profound mediation that expands his engagement with the ideas and experiences that have shaped his body of work thus far. Throughout the collection, prose pieces complement the poems, and to bring readers into Jesse’s life with greater intimacy than ever before.
Jesse Thistle is Métis-Cree, from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and an assistant professor in Humanities at York University in Toronto. From the Ashes, his memoir, was the top-selling Canadian book in 2020, the winner of the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Nonfiction, Indigenous Voices Award, and the High Plains Book Award, and also a finalist for CBC's Canada Reads. Jesse won a Governor General’s Academic Medal in 2016, and is a 2016 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar and a 2016 Vanier Scholar. A frequent keynote speaker, he lives in Hamilton, Ontario, with his wife, Lucie, and is at work on multiple projects, including his next book. Visit him online.
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