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Title
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Jordan Abel Interview 3: Clip 3
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Keyword
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Landscape / Skyline, Colonisation, Poetic Intervention
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Date
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2018-01-19
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Description
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In this clip, Jordan Abel delves into his writing process for Place of Scraps, particularly how he came to use erasure techniques on Marius Barbeau's text Totem Poles. From this a discussion ensues on how readers can, or should, approach and read Place of Scraps. Abel's poetry makes use of fragmented words and images alongside more traditional narrative (for an example, please refer to Jordan Abel's Reading).
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Jordan Abel Reading: "Of his own volition..." from The Place of Scraps
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Keyword
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Totem Poles, Poetic Intervention
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Date
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2018-01-19
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Description
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In this audio clip, Nisga'a writer Jordan Abel reads a short excerpt from his poetry collection Place of Scraps. The collection as a whole interrogates Marius Barbeau's role as an ethnographer in the early twentieth-century, and this scene in particular focuses on a totem pole moved from the Nass River Valley (Northern British Columbia) to a museum in Toronto as part of Barbeau's project.