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PRAISE FOR HEATING THE OUTDOORS

“Miller’s translation skillfully delivers the energy and pacing of Gill’s ruminative poems. . . . these pages full of irreverent musings deliver affecting details and candor.” —Publishers Weekly

"Marie-Andrée Gill's spare, luminous micropoems are endlessly surprising, twisting out, into, and unto themselves like complicated lovers. Defiantly fragmentary, these are less petits poèmes en prose than stunning shards of tongues, embodied vernaculars slowly, steadily unsettling grammars. Kristen Renee Miller’s translations retain the elegance and shimmer of the originals while wondrously conveying their knottedness, their syntax of skin. When at last we reach Nitassinan, we are reminded of the worlds poetry documents, but also of the worlds it creates. This is poetry that claims the power to "gnaw the meat off each day and spit out the pin bones" through a language as unresolved as our decolonial dreams and as necessary as our sovereign desires." —Urayoán Noel, author of Transversal

“These poems live in a bachelor apartment over the corner store. They're on the bus looking out at the muddy hangtime between winter and spring, in a too-warm jacket. These poems will make you a cup of tar-coffee and tell you about the ache of desire in the language of crunching snow. You'll come back to them over and over again to listen.” —Carleigh Baker, author of Bad Endings

“Marie-Andrée Gill's Heating the Outdoors is a stunning collection exploring heartbreak, and the awkward dance between exes from the positionality of an Ilnu and Quebecoise woman whose poetic 'gasoline-soaked heart' yearns deeply for love. Translated by Kristen Renee Miller from French into English, Gill's Heating the Outdoors re-wilds the ritualistic humdrum of domestic life while honouring the land and her 'crème-soda ancestral spirit.'" —Shannon Webb-Campbell, author of Lunar Tides and I Am a Body of Land