Imaginary Origins: Selected Poems 1972-2003

by Cyril Dabydeen

Overview

With a clarity drawn from careful craft, this collection of poems features 30 years of work from a Guyanese Canadian deeply immersed in the transformations of the immigrant experience and able to reflect on a rich personal history. Whether concerned with Guyanese memory or the Canadian present, these poems engage the reader with an open, conversational tone. Encompassing confessional, narrative, and mythic styles, this work is at home in vast poetic and geographic territories and sheds light on a life and career that has spanned genres and nations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781900715942
Publisher:	Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Publication date:	06/01/2004
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Cyril Dabydeen is the author of Discussing Columbus. He lives in Ottawa City, Ottawa.

Editorial Reviews

One of the most confident and accomplished voices in the Caribbean diaspora this side of the late 20th century.”  —Kamau Brathwaite

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