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Review copy mailings to American publications such as Boston Review, Granta, Harper's, New Republic, Poetry, The Atlantic, London Review of Books, The Nation, New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, New Yorker, Paris Review, Threepenny Review, Times Literary Supplement, Tin House Review copy mailings to Canadian publications such as Antigonish Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, Briarpatch, Brick, Broken Pencil, Canadian Literature, Canadian Notes and Queries, Event Magazine, Fiddlehead, Geist, Lettres Quebecoises, Liberte: Art et Politique, Literary Review of Canada, Maisonneuve, Malahat Review, Nuit Blanche, Prism, Quill & Quire, rabble.ca, subTerrain, This! Magazine, Walrus, Chronicle Herald, Le Devoir, Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun, Winnipeg Free Press, National Post, and Globe and Mail Publicity and promotion in conjunction with author's speaking engagements Publicity and promotion in conjunction with National Poetry Month (April 2016) Launch to be held in Vancouver (at annual Talonbooks Spring Poetry Launch, April 2016) Promotion on the Talonbooks website and social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, LibraryThing, and YouTube $2500 marketing and publicity budget Advertising in BC Bookworld, placement on BC Ferries

About the Author

Jordan Abel is a Nisga'a writer residing in Vancouver. He is currently completing his PhD at Simon Fraser University where he is focusing on digital humanities and Indigenous poetics. Abel's conceptual writing engages with the representation of Indigenous peoples in anthropology and popular culture. His chapbooks have been published by JackPine Press and Above/Ground Press, and his work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals across Canada, including Prairie Fire, Capilano Review, and Canadian Literature. He is an editor for Poetry Is Dead magazine and a former editor for PRISM international and Geist. Abel's first book, The Place of Scraps (Talonbooks, 2013), was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Un/inhabited, Abel's second book, was co-published by Project Space Press and Talonbooks in 2015.

Reviews

“The poet breaks words, even as lands and languages have been broken by colonial power. Fragmented and fugitive pieces lie at the heart of Injun. … Injun nevertheless has the same astonishing impact as his earlier work in re-establishing the presence of Indigenous culture against silence and absence. Techniques of collage and pastiche restore the margins, invert dichotomies of paleface and redskin, and rearrange legends, myths, and rituals. … Injun’s brackets alert us not only to what is enclosed, but also to what has escaped.”—Malahat Review

“In Injun, Abel carefully un-writes ninety-one Western novels in the public domain … While Injun is conceptually difficult and, indeed, demanding in the most productive of ways, the remarkably condensed, although potent, lines that Abel un-creates from within the body of such a disturbing collection of texts are demonstrative of his unique ability to converge conceptual, political, and affective registers seamlessly. … Injun recasts the book as a textual object … It is no wonder that Abel has received so much critical attention, as he is one of the most innovative and thrilling poets writing today.”
—Canadian Literature

Injun is an artful exploration of the brutal colonialism that informs which voices are priviledged. … Injun isn’t just good; it is singular and essential.” —vallum