Surviving Home - Katerina Canyon
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Katerina Canyon's poems offer intimate accounts of home as the locus of danger - and homeland as a state of oppression. They are at once urgent and mysterious, full of ocean depths and surging currents. Far from nostalgia, home inspires in this poet a vigilance, keeping watch on herself and others. Her very language is charged with the alert intelligence that offers a means of survival, and metaphors that t ... Täielik kirjeldus
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-Devin Johnston, author of Mosses and Lichens
Katerina Canyon's poems dive into history unafraid to explore the complexity of home and family and acknowledge: the sea is filled with bones. This powerful, engaging collection where we see the billowing skirt of sunset asks again and again: How do get past our pasts? Smart, poignant, compassionate, Canyon's poems remind us that strength happens despite one's childhood and one's country; they exclaim, We can choose whether we are stuck / In darkness or in light.
-Kelli Russell Agodon, author of Dialogues with Rising Tides
In lush language and startling images, Katerina Canyon unveils a story in blood and bone of a speaker who survives domestic cycles of addiction and abuse, terrors handed down from the plantation through generations of her kin . . . Like the Phoenix, the speaker dares to draw near destruction to name our violent histories in order to claim a survivor's eternal understanding of how to love, how to mother, and how to teach the world that We cannot be bound. We are free. We are infinite.
-Katy Didden, author of The Glacier's Wake
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| Autor | Katerina Canyon |
|---|---|
| Kirjastaja | Kelsay Books |
| Väljalaskeaasta | 2021 |
| Kaanetüüp | Pehme kaanega |
| EAN | 9781639800018 |