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Shari Narine speaks with Jess Housty about their latest collection, How to Nourish a Cannibal. "A cannibal in the Heiltsuk culture," says Housty, "is a complex idea…as something that takes, but also something that gives. There's a really deep inherent reciprocity to the cannibal figure.”
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Reciprocity key to understanding the complex cannibal figure of the Heiltsuk
A cannibal in the Heiltsuk culture, says poet Jess Housty, is a “complex idea…as something that takes, but also something that gives. There's a really deep inherent reciprocity to the cannibal figure....
