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Poetry Canadian

Three Blocks West of Wonderland

by (author) Heather Susan Haley

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Nov 2009
Category
Canadian
  • 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.

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