East and West

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Author: Laura Ritland

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East and West, Laura Ritland’s astonishing debut, is a book of visions. These are roving poems drawn to defamiliarizing points of view, and are exquisitely attentive to the way the world exceeds our senses (“Cloud deduced cloud / after cloud and cloud.”) Beckoningly tender, lucid and intelligent, elegaic without being maudlin, East and West explores what Ritland calls the “middle ground” of childhood, family, diaspora, and migration, and how new cultural ideas can disrupt traditional perspectives. “My bedroom window an escape hatch / to endless sights of coastal stars.” Ritland takes the measure of herself– “I’m an integer of my own society”–in one of the most distinctive and beautifully turned styles in Canadian poetry.show more

Additional information

Weight 142 g
Author

Laura Ritland

Publisher

Vehicule Press

Binding

Paperback / softback

ISBN-10

1550654969

Dimensions

142 x 216 x 14

Language

English

Country of Pub

Canada

Book Condition

New

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