Banyan: Poems - Couverture souple

Suarez, Virgil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807127086 ISBN 13 : 9780807127087

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Banyan is a sequence of poems about a father-son relationship that deals not only with fatherhood and childhood, but also with exile, memory, and assimilation. Using the metaphor of the tree of its title, whose tendril-like roots grow out from the thick branches of the tree and downward where they burrow deep and over years become themselves stabilizing trunks, Banyan examines a son's relationship to his father, his native Cuba, and his adopted home in the US - the son always represented by the burrowing roots, and the father and homelands all represented by the sturdy grown trunks. Simply, put, Banyan is a testament to the nature of immigration and the search of an individual's sense of place and family.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Virgil Suarez is professor of creative writing at Florida State University. He received his B.A. in English at California State University-Long Beach and his M.F.A. from Louisiana State University. His most recent poetry collection is In the Republic of Longing (Bilingual Review/Press, 1999).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807127086
• ISBN 13: 9780807127087
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
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