Taking the Names Down From the Hill Product Form:Paperback / softback “The Pit offers everything I

“The Pit offers everything I could want in a dive bar and a collection of poetry: crib games

in language both visceral and eloquent

from "the day Riel slipped through the gallows" to "the halls of psych wards" to "a pile of broken bones

–Patricia Robertson

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Taking the Names Down From the Hill Product Form:Paperback / softback “The Pit offers everything IDescription Philip Kevin Paul is a rare young poet with the voice of an elder. A WS,NEC Indian from BCs Saanich Peninsula, Pauls oral tradition and life perspective are as old as the hills themselves, but their addition to Canadian poetry is long awaited and increasingly vital. Philip Kevin Pauls poems rise from the belly of awareness. With the movement of a snake, he weaves through the mind and digs into the senses with the grace and concentration of