Stone Boat
- Publisher
- Turnstone Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2004
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888012968
- Publish Date
- Mar 2004
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
In Stone Boat, Kristen Wittman draws on both her rural upbringing and her experiences as a lawyer to create a deft poetic biography of a man who has lost all to the modern world.
"Kristen Wittman gives us the haunting voice of Franklin, a prairie farmer who struggles with the memory of family tragedy, his failing health, and the death of the family farm, all in order to accept the inevitability of his own end. Stone Boat is a long poem evocative of poetry's beginnings."
-Clarise Foster, author of The Flame Tree
About the author
Kristen Wittman was born in Winnipeg and grew up on a farm west of Headingley. She received her law degree from the University of Manitoba and now practises at Taylor McCaffrey LLP in Winnipeg. Her poems have been published in CV2 and Crosswinds Poetry Journal, among others. Death Becomes Us is her second book.