Literary Collections Women Authors
Alfabet/Alphabet
- Publisher
- Palimpsest Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2020
- Category
- Women Authors, Essays, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781989287606
- Publish Date
- Oct 2020
- List Price
- $15.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781989287613
- Publish Date
- Oct 2020
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
alfabet / alphabet is the record of Sadiqa de Meijer's transition from speaking Dutch to English. Exploring questions of identity, landscape, family, and translation, the essays navigate the shifting cultural currents of language by using an eclectic approach to storytelling. As such, fellow linguistic migrants to anglophone Canada will recognize elements of their experience in alfabet / alphabet, while lifelong English speakers will perceive their mother tongue in a new light.
About the author
Sadiqa de Meijer was born in Amsterdam, and moved to Canada as a child. Her poetry, short stories and essays have appeared in many journals, including The Malahat Review, Geist, The Fiddlehead, Riddle Fence and Poetry Magazine. Her poems were anthologized in The Best of Canadian Poetry in English 2008 (Tightrope Books) and in the international anthology Villanelles (Everymen's Library). In 2012, her series "Great Aunt Unmarried" won the CBC Poetry Prize. Leaving Howe Island is her first collection.
