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The work is animated by a proposition: that violence, both personal and collective, produces continuing sonar, an echolocation that finds us, even when we choose to be unaware or indifferent. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection breaks new ground in its approach to the saga that is Canada\/Air India, an event and its aftermath that is both over-reported and under-represented in our national psyche.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e329 deaths. 82 Children. Canada's worst mass murder. The accused acquitted. \u003cbr\u003eWhat does it mean to be Canadian and lose someone in Air India Flight 182?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy does 9\/11 resonate more strongly with Canadians than June 23, 1985? The poems in this book search out answers in the \"everything\/ness and nothing\/ness\" of an act and its aftermath, revealing a voice that re-defines and re-visions. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAir India never happened. 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