Book of Places
10th Anniversary Edition
- Publisher
- Palimpsest Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2022
- Category
- Women Authors, Places, Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781990293337
- Publish Date
- Sep 2022
- List Price
- $19.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781990293344
- Publish Date
- Sep 2022
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Description
In Book of Places, Yvonne Blomer invites us along for a cycling journey spanning across decades and countries. From a solitary traffic controller on a lonely Nevada highway, to the quizzical regulars of a dodgy pub in the UK, we follow Blomer’s meandering path through poetic snapshots of the figures and sights that populate it. This updated edition also features an expanded collection of poems, integrating suites of meditations on childhood, and more recent poems reflecting on the ever-developing journey of life. The Book of Places invites us along for a grand adventure, but always leads us home.
About the author
Yvonne Blomer is the author of four poetry collections, including The Last Show on Earth, which was published with Caitlin Press in 2022, and As if a Raven (Palimpsest Press, 2015); in the fall of 2022 Palimpsest Press released Book of Places: 10th Anniversary Edition. Yvonne is the editor of the anthologies Refugium: Poems for the Pacific and Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds (Caitlin Press, 2017 and 2021). Sugar Ride: Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur (Palimpsest Press, 2017) is her travel memoir exploring body, time, and travel. Yvonne is the past Poet Laureate of Victoria, BC, and the past Artistic Director of the weekly reading series Planet Earth Poetry; Yvonne is Arc Poetry Magazine’s current poet-in-residence for 2022-2023. She lives on the traditional territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) people in Victoria, BC. www.yvonneblomer.com
Editorial Reviews
Serious, playful, and governed by the eye's apprehension of the familiar as well as the shockingly new, Yvonne Blomer's Book of Places takes us cycling through Asian landscapes, Britain's stone cathedrals, and the intimate landmarks of home, where these poems accumulate earthly wonders: rivers and rain, animals, leaves, bamboo's hollow knock against stone. She drops the pebble of a word into a mirror pool, and its ripples expand into the still pond of the reader's mind."
Pamela Porter, author of Likely Stories
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