Taking the Names Down From the Hill Product Form:Paperback / softback in language both visceral and

in language both visceral and eloquent

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“The Pit offers everything I could want in a dive bar and a collection of poetry: crib games

a kind of love letter to trans Indigenous peoples

from "the day Riel slipped through the gallows" to "the halls of psych wards" to "a pile of broken bones

Taking the Names Down From the Hill Product Form:Paperback / softback in language both visceral andDescription 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