Dandurand’s subjects are from his own hard life, of fighting, against bullies and racially motivated abuse, and sometimes professionally, since the age of four. The ineradicable memories of abuse at residential school. The madhouse, life on the streets of Vancouver, old love affairs or hopeless new ones. And the daily struggle to put food, frequently the fish he catches himself, on the table for three children. His imagery derives from the interplay of all that with a world of spirits, of the dead, but also of fish and cranes, owls and coyotes and sasquatch.
So as far as imagery goes, the poems are full of imagery of a very unusual kind, just coming out of the fish, to start with:
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