Taking the Names Down From the Hill Product Form:Paperback / softback From the monk who sets

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–Patricia Robertson

These poems are memories of reclaimed history and attempts at starting over in a new place

a kind of love letter to trans Indigenous peoples

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Taking the Names Down From the Hill Product Form:Paperback / softback From the monk who setsDescription Philip Kevin Paul is a rare young poet with the voice of an elder. A WS,NEC Indian from BCs Saanich Peninsula, Pauls oral tradition and life perspective are as old as the hills themselves, but their addition to Canadian poetry is long awaited and increasingly vital. Philip Kevin Pauls poems rise from the belly of awareness. With the movement of a snake, he weaves through the mind and digs into the senses with the grace and concentration of