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Travelling the Floodwaters

by (author) Patricia Young

Publisher
Turnstone Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1983
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888010827
    Publish Date
    Jan 1983
    List Price
    $6.95

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Description

when a woman denies the existence of the rainbow yet risks her life smuggling prisms over the border you know she's been travelling the floodwaters too long you know that the bows tucked in the linging of her little black suitcase are coming undone.

About the author

Patricia Young has published eleven books of poetry, most recently, Night-Eater, which was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Award in 2010. She has received numerous awards for her poetry including the CBC Literary Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, The Dorothy Livesay Award, the Bliss Carmen Award, two National Magazine Awards, Arc's Poem of the Year Award and the Confederation Poet's Prize. Two of her collections have been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. Her collection of short fiction, Airstream, won the Rooke-Metcalf Prize and was named one of the Globe and Mail's best books of the year. She lives in Victoria, B. C.

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