The Trick of Staying and Leaving |
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| Author:
| Zieroth, David |
| ISBN: | 978-1-990776-02-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2024 |
| Publisher: | Harbour Publishing Company, Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $39.99 |
Book Description:
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From Governor General's Award-winning poet David Zieroth comes a new collection about history, connections and travels in Europe.
Impromptu English lessons in a North Vancouver coffee shop, and subsequent trips to Bratislava, bring the speaker in these poems a warmer appreciation of friends and family as well as a wider vision of the interplay of folklore and culture, and of the human-made and natural world. These poems speak of affections that cross borders--geographical,...
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From Governor General's Award-winning poet David Zieroth comes a new collection about history, connections and travels in Europe.
Impromptu English lessons in a North Vancouver coffee shop, and subsequent trips to Bratislava, bring the speaker in these poems a warmer appreciation of friends and family as well as a wider vision of the interplay of folklore and culture, and of the human-made and natural world. These poems speak of affections that cross borders--geographical, historical and interpersonal--and that show us ways to love each other. Here are villages, people and landscapes in Slovakia, a post-Communist country with a complicated past and present, where Zieroth seeks what unites us across barriers. He brings this deeper sense of connection home with him, even when a part of his new sense of self and others lingers along the Danube.