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ISBN13: 9781770899629
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: Apr 5 2016
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
A piece of paper with writing on it is flat, but when what is written on that paper fills the mind of a reader, it takes off into the wind like a box kite on a windy day, writes Baziju -- the shared voice of poets Roo Borson and Kim Maltman. This exquisite, collaboratively written sequence of prose poems, unfolding through rich, delicate imagery, journeys through streets and gardens, houses and temples, cities and countryside, Canada and China. It is a meditation on the way we travel between places and between times, and how words and ideas travel between languages.
Baziju explores the literature of China, from centuries past to the present, exploring, at the same time, the meaning of hope and of home: childhood homes, the homes we grow into, and the homes in our minds. In Lu Xun's classic story My Old Home, the hero returns from a distant city to the home he left two decades earlier. Hope, he ponders, is just like the roads of the earth... . [T]o begin with the earth has no roads, but where many people pass, there a road is made.
These sensual, deeply personal prose poems ponder change, loss, friendship, and belonging. In a life in which every detail has significance, the smallest observation grows, and spreads like the branches of wisteria.
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