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Poetry Canadian

Argentina poesía

by (author) Franci Louann

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Oct 2020
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771714068
    Publish Date
    Oct 2020
    List Price
    $24.95

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"Franci Louann's Argentina poesía is a travel diary transformed by kaleidoscopic language. From the very first page, Argentina bursts into life in poems dripping with colours, fragrances, sensations. If you have not travelled to this vast country, these poems will take you there. The swirl of words, intense and provocative, is mitigated with peals of laughter, ironic reflections, and gentle affirmations. To be sure, Louann's Argentina, where theft and muggings are just around the corner, is not a perfect place. Yet joyous friendship, little kindnesses, good food and conversation, light up each poem. In Louann's trenchant poetic universe, living is not reasoned into place: it simply is." ~ Robert Martens

About the author

Contributor Notes

Franci Louann had her first fine publications in Dorothy Livesay’s last anthology, Women's Eye: 12 BC Poets in the 1970s. Her name was then Fran Workman. In 2010, Lipstick Press published her Beach Cardiology. There have been awards for Franci’s poetry and for her decades of volunteer work in this area. She is thankful for many falling-off-her-chair moments. Franci was born in Stratford, Ontario. Her father was a British Home Child, her mother third-generation German-Canadian. From 2002 to 2017, Argentina was Franci’s "second home." Poems about these latter experiences could fill another book.