Settlement Poems 1
- Publisher
- Turnstone Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1980
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888010339
- Publish Date
- Jan 1980
- List Price
- $10.00
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Description
Two series of long poetms that depict the Icelandic immigration of Manitoba in the 1870's. Each series reaches into the brutality of the immigrant experience and folklore as the settlers grapple for a new psychic language.
About the author
Kristjana Gunnars is the author of five cross-generic prose books from Red Deer Press, including The Prowler and The Substance of Forgetting. She is also the author of several books of poetry, including Exiles Among You and Silence of the Country. Her books of short stories are The Axe's Edge and The Guest House. Gunnars has been a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Alberta since 1990, and is no living on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.