Fossil Light
- Publisher
- Ekstasis Editions
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2016
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781771711869
- Publish Date
- Nov 2016
- List Price
- $23.95
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Description
In his impressive new collection Fossil Light, Erling Friis-Baastad continues to explore and find language for not only the northern Canadian landscape —both human and other-than-human—but also our moment in cosmic history. He extends his gaze to undertake an attentive traverse of deep space and deep time. These taut, intense poems are the words of a poet determined to relocate our place in the cosmos during an age of immense dislocation.
About the author
Born in Norway, Erling Friis-Baastad grew up in the United States, emigrated to Toronto in 1969, and moved to the Yukon in 1974. His earlier collection, The Exile House, was published by Ireland's Salmon Publishing in 2001. His poems have appeared in a number of chapbooks as well as in many literary journals and anthologies, including The Malahat Review, Grain, Poetry Canada and Canadian Forum. A longtime book reviewer and journalist, he currently works as an editor with the Yukon News in Whitehorse.
