Three Blocks West of Wonderland
- Publisher
- Ekstasis Editions
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2009
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897430477
- Publish Date
- Nov 2009
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
If you are a Rambling girl who wants to shirk and shake her motherland, read this jitters and jive guide to the other side of Canada and the world. Fads and fears take Air Canada wing (or Westjet’s). Sights seen turn into fables and metaphors, quirks of speech and character galore. As to the body of the language, the Canadian straightjacket lies like an old pair of stays on the stage in this diction strippers act. But there is a serious restlessness to Heather Haley's serial observations — in the tradition of that great Canadian traveller in poetry, Ralph Gustafson's: adagio notations, like his, on everything she sees and feels and musically reveals.
About the author
Trailblazing poet, author, musician and media artist Heather Susan Haley pushes boundaries by creatively integrating disciplines, genres and media. Architect of the Edgewise ElectroLit Centre and the Vancouver Videopoem Festival, her own works have been official selections at dozens of international film festivals. An engaging performer, Haley has shared her poetry and music with audiences around the world.