Robinson's Crossing

Zwicky, Jan

ISBN 10: 1894078373 / ISBN 13: 9781894078375

Edité par Brick Books (edition First Edition), 2004

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Synopsis :

The poems in this book arise from Robinson's Crossing - the place where the railway ends and European settlers arriving in northern Alberta had to cross the Pembina River and advance by wagon or on foot. How have we crossed into this country, with what violence and what blind love? Robinson's Crossing enacts the pause at the frontier, where we reflect on the realities of colonial experience, but also on the nature of living here- on historical dwelling itself. In long meditative narratives and shorter probing lyrics, Jan Zwicky shows us-as she has in her celebrated Lyric Philosophy and the Governor General's award-winning Songs for Relinquishing the Earth - how music means and meaning is musical.

My great-
grandmother slept
in a boxcar on the night
before she made the crossing. The steel
ended in Sangudo then, there was
no trestle on the Pembina, no siding
on the other side. They crossed
by ferry, and went on by cart through bush,
the same eight miles. Another
family legend has it that she stood there
in the open doorway of the shack
and said, "You told me, Ernest,
it had windows and a floor." - from "Robinson's Crossing"

À propos de l'auteur: Jan Zwicky has published five collections of poetry, including ROBINSON'S CROSSING (Brick Books, 2004) and SONGS FOR RELINQUISHING THE EARTH (Brick Books, 1998), which won the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1999. Zwicky is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Victoria, where she taught both philosophy and interdisciplinary humanities courses from 1996 until 2009.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Robinson's Crossing
Éditeur : Brick Books (edition First Edition)
Date d'édition : 2004
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good
Edition : First Edition.