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Overview
Nominated for the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award A poetic travelogue through Britain, India and East Africa, this collection is a personal journey through cultural identity, influence and history. It is an exploration of both longing and belonging as it retraces the migrations of three generations. These poems create a space for themselves by drawing on many traditions, both eastern and western. Stylistically concise, yet accessible, the poems use the precision of language to intimately redescribe and redefine a diasporatic postcolonial world. Whether set in Canada or Britain, India, or East Africa, each poem explores the perspective of the intimate outsider.
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- ISBN-13: 9781550223453
- ISBN-10: 1550223453
- Publisher: ECW Press
- Publish Date: October 1997
- Dimensions: 8.72 x 5.61 x 0.35 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.38 pounds
- Page Count: 116
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