Description
The poems in Ragtime for Beginners explore questions of perspective and memory. They consider the difference between something and the image of that thing; they attempt to distinguish a pomegranate, for example, from a picture of a pomegranate. The poems examine the spaces that not only separate people, but also that divides the self. They look at what breaks up a husband and wife married twenty-five years, and conversely, what brings together a woman and the Jehovah's Witness at her door; and they explore the seismic shifts of the self, how we assemble and disassemble our own lives.
About the author
Moberley Luger lives in Vancouver, where she is completing her PhD in English at the University of British Columbia. Her poetry has appeared in several Canadian journals, including The Malahat Review, Grain, Prairie Fire and The New Quarterly. This is her first book.