Native Canadiana: Songs from the Urban Rez

2005 Books (28 items)
list by Hibiscus

It's hard to enjoy a book of poetry when you rushed through it, but I liked several poems in this collection. Scofield's poems are aggressive, that is, they are in-your-face angry and very graphic. Drawn from personal experience, his poems are full of depictions of violence, sex, drugs, poverty, AIDS and basically the worst elements of downtown eastside that can make a reader uncomfortable, but hi... read more