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Poetry Canadian

Eyes Like Pigeons

by (author) Roberta Rees

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

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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.

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