The red files
Inspired by family and archival sources, Lisa Bird-Wilson assembles scraps of a history torn apart by colonial violence. The collection takes its name from the federal government's complex organizational structure of residential schools archives, which are divided into "black files" and "red files." In vignettes clear as glass beads, her poems offer affection to generations of children whose presence within the historic record is ghostlike, anony...
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