"I'm drawn to the fugitive nature of Injun. I imagine Abel poring over source texts, deconstructing code, forging meaning from scraps and breaking through colonial constructions with fever, and I can't help but think he's re-created my experience of being Indigenous in Canada. Well done." – Leanne Simpson
Talonbooks (2013)
Project Space Press (2014) / Talonbooks (2015)
Talonbooks (2016)
Bio and information
“Built from a core sample of our culture’s colonialist project in language, Jordan Abel has opened a space of disruption, lament, resistance, and inquiry—a terrible, inverted singing that can undermine assumption, exposing ‘soft’ ideology. Injun isn’t a record of past wrongs, but a present tense intervention. A necessary, confrontational beauty. The country needs Injun right up in its face.” – Ken Babstock
