Floating is Everything - Couverture souple

Warrener, Sheryda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0889713154 ISBN 13 : 9780889713154

Editeur : Nightwood Editions, 2015

Synopsis

Sheryda Warrener's second poetry collection touches on the illusion of remaining grounded and a sense of belonging. A retired cosmonaut returns from a record-breaking 438 days in space and attempts to re-immerse himself in the world. One speaker considers reinvention from the top floor of the World's Tallest building; another, our complicated future from Reykjavik, post-eruption of Eyjafjallajï¿1/2kull. Confessions and aspirations suspend in air. Ghosts float in and out; inheritance and connection are called into question. Morrissey, Cindy Sherman, and Pancho Barnes make cameo appearances. Influence and personal lineage are traced back to the Vikings, demoted Pluto, artists frequenting a Parisian bar. One speaker confides: "Yes, she's longing to be elsewhere. Just past the sun deck there's something invisible worth having." In Floating is Everything, a resolution lies nearly always out of reach.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sheryda Warrener is the author of two poetry collections, including her debut Hard Feelings (Snare/Invisible, 2010). Her work has been shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, the Arc Magazine Poem of the Year, the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, and was a runner-up for Lemon Hound's inaugural poetry contest. She lives in Vancouver, where she teaches at the University of British Columbia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nightwood Editions
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0889713154
• ISBN 13: 9780889713154
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
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• Personne responsable: non disponible