Thin Air of the Knowable by Wendy Donawa
Poetry. In her first collection, THIN AIR OF THE KNOWABLE, the physical landscapes of Wendy Donawa's life--West Coast, Caribbean, prairies--ground many of her poems and often reflect the inner geography of her preoccupations. A road-trip poem moves from prairie winter, an icy scatter of gravel / the moving centre of this unpeopled world, past a cattle liner on its way to the slaughter house, but it also passes beneath the sky's blazing scroll of light, and magpies flashing black and teal in the sun. Landscape also functions metaphorically to suggest how historical settings play out in the exigencies of individual lives. Other preoccupations include poems that reflect on poesis itself--the strange poem-making compulsion to capture that which is largely inexpressible (hence the thin air of the knowable), and the role of dreams, memory, and intuition in shaping a poem's knowledge.
Donawa, Wendy: - Wendy Donawa, formerly a museum curator and academic in Barbados, now lives on the West Coast and participates in Victoria's vibrant poetry scene. Her poems have appeared in anthologies, magazines, and online publications across Canada. She was a finalist in The Malahat Review's 2013 Open Season Competition, and in 2015 she was runner-up in the inaugural Cedric Literary Awards. She has published three chapbooks, Sliding Towards Equinox (Rubicon Press, 2009), Those Astonishments of Sorrow, of Joy (Leaf Press, 2012) and The Gorge: A Cartography of Sorrows (JackPine Press, 2016). THIN AIR OF THE KNOWABLE is her first collection.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781771314602 |
| ISBN 10 | 1771314605 |
| Title | Thin Air of the Knowable |
| Author | Wendy Donawa |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Brick Books |
| Year published | 2017-05-18 |
| Number of pages | 104 |
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