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Foreign Homes
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Artikel-Nr:
9781894078191
Veröffentl:
2002
Erscheinungsdatum:
16.01.2002
Seiten:
84
Autor:
Joan Crate
Gewicht:
163 g
Format:
222x143x8 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Joan Crate was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Her numerous publications include poetry and short stories inGrain, Secrets from the Orange Couch, blue buffalo, and the Calgary Herald
Foreign Homes, Joan Crate's second book of poems, explores domesticity and dislocation, where what was thought to be home becomes alien, and where the alien is, piece by piece, made into home -- often in such simple, physical acts as laying a table, or driving a highway, or reassembling a tom photograph. In Crate's careful hands, the knife that cuts the vegetables for dinner can transform the blade-edge of a distant war. Her migratory poems slip from voice to voice, from love to landscape to language, present to past, exile to return, illuminating the boundary that is also a border crossing between one person, one place, and another: