Dion-Glowa, J. (2022) Trailer Park Shakes. Brick Books

asks a lot of questions.In her first full-length work of poetry, Trailer Park Shakes, Dion-Glowa asks, and often answers, questions of herself, of the reader, and of the characters, both two-legged and otherwise, who populate this powerful group of poems exploring life challenged by intergenerational violence, poverty, and institutional indifference that is sometimes outright hostility.Separated into two sections, Dion-Glowa's work makes inquiries into the impact of misogyny, racism, and heteronormativity through the experiences of multiple, complex traumas, bringing visibility to the pain, struggle, and hard-fought efforts at healing, wishing, above all, as she notes in "perch," to "bear witness to the world" (p.39).