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Poetry Canadian

The Flame Tree

by (author) Clarise Foster

Publisher
J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Initial publish date
Jan 1998
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896239392
    Publish Date
    Jan 1998
    List Price
    $12.95

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Description

Foster’s first collection of poetry shimmers with the colours of the South Pacific. The green flash at sunset, the "diamond sleeve of an ocean inlet," and "the resilient fire/of flame trees" all illuminate a landscape of white beaches and tangled forests of walking trees and tangentangen. This is a dangerous landscape of legend and memory, where the past lies hidden like the unexploded bombs beneath the surface of the island. But Foster revisists it with courage and grace, exploring her losses with the sure knowledge that the dead "are not fully gone/but winged in the way/summer is winged/with shadow."

About the author

Clarise Foster spent ten years living in the South Pacific. Her family moved to Guam when she was twelve, and she has since lived in Hawaii, Seattle, Vanvoucer, and, for the past eleven years, Winnipeg. The Flame Tree is Clarise’s first book.

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