{"product_id":"permission-to-settle","title":"Permission to Settle","description":"\u003cp\u003ePermission to Settle fills in the blanks of the application for Permanent Residency with a series of memoir-based poems, capturing common aspects of immigration - the anxiety, and the bureaucracy of application, identity, foreignness, and inadequacy - all while exploring the sense of privilege that comes from the geographically and culturally close immigration journey from the US to Canada as a modern-day settler.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems investigate the implicit biases in the forms and the gaps between the messy reality of life lived and the structured and colonial system of boxes and check marks that still seek to categorize \"the other\" and to harness it in the face of reconciliation. The reader is drawn in through the guise of the familiar, while the playfulness and self-revealing tone of the work reveals a poignancy of meaning and language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHolly Flauto is a poet, storyteller, writer and learner. Their writing has previously been published in The ex-Puritan, Joyland, and The Rusty Toque. They teach English and Creative Writing at Capilano University. Originally from the US, Holly currently lives in Vancouver, BC.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pages \u0026 Parcels","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45810723651737,"sku":"9781772142389","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/7546\/2809\/files\/permission-to-settle-5263956.jpg?v=1773718569","url":"https:\/\/www.pagesandparcels.store\/products\/permission-to-settle","provider":"Pages \u0026 Parcels","version":"1.0","type":"link"}