Eyes Like Pigeons
- Publisher
- Brick Books
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1992
- Category
- Canadian
-
eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771311113
- Publish Date
- Oct 1992
- List Price
- $11.99
-
Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919626614
- Publish Date
- Jan 1992
- List Price
- $10.95
Add it to your shelf
Where to buy it
Description
Co-winner of the 1992 Gerald Lampert Award. Winner of the 1992 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry
Eyes Like Pigeons, Roberta Rees' long poem, comes back, always, to this: "… Thi' in Vietnamese means poetry." Thi, a Vietnamese refugee, is this book’s associational matrix; playing with the possibilities of her name, Rees writes of Thi, poetry both self-reflexive and self-reflective, and immensely different from that which idealizes women with cliches like the title of this volume. The poetry she finds through Thi is as harsh as it is beautiful; its content as sorrowful as the style is liberating, joyful.
About the author
Roberta Rees lives in Calgary where she has taught high school and university English courses and now teaches Creative Writing for Women.
