Helsinki Drift
Actress Mae West once said I've been things and seen places. Poet Douglas Burnet Smith might well be able to lay claim to the same boast. In his latest collection of verse he takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey through Amsterdam's antique streets and canals, Tuscany's sun-soaked landscapes, Paris's Gallic gabble of monuments and madcaps, and the title poem's Finnish auditory and aural delights. In one poem we play Scrabble with Dadaist Tristan Tzara. In another work, Sophia, we encounter the mangy wisdom of wild dogs on every street,/skulking, pawing rabid piles of garbage/choking gutters, begging at the front doors of restaurants/lik…
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- ISBN: 978-1-77070-646-0
- EAN: 9781770706460
- Produktnummer: 20460913
- Verlag: Dundurn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 505 KB
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Douglas Burnet Smith is the author of ten previous volumes of poetry. His most recent book is The Killed (Wolsak & Wynn). He has been nominated for the Governor General's Award and has won numerous prizes for his writing, including The Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize. Currently he divides his time between Paris, France, and Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where he teaches at St. Francis Xavier University.
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