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Treading Fast Rivers

by (author) Eleonore Schönmaier

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Sep 1999
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780886293611
    Publish Date
    Sep 1999
    List Price
    $20.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773584464
    Publish Date
    Sep 1999
    List Price
    $17.95

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Description

This collection of linked poems takes us on a journey where angels ride bicycles, wounds both grieve and heal, and "our will / diving through the shuddering / wet world, carries us." Resonant with "a longing so ardent and spacious," these are poems of place and displacement, sickness and health. A poet of striking maturity, Eleonore Schönmaier writes of icy depths and serene pools with equal ease. Unflinching when charting the terrains of human nature and the natural wilderness, she travels to such far-flung landscapes as Crete and Portugal, and the watery depths of the Sargasso Sea. Closer to home she looks beneath the surface of Northern mining communities and explores an abandoned lighthouse on the Atlantic coast.

About the author

Eleonore Schönmaier is the award-winning author of Wavelengths of Your Song. She divides her time between Canada and coastal Europe.

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