Safely Home Pacific Western - Latosik, Jeff
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Like the fever dream of a modern Odysseus, Safely Home Pacific Western is an electric rumination on the moment of departure, of squaring those provisional instances of settlement with the ingenuity and cunning that it takes to persevere. Latosik's tour package journeys into ruined stretches of the rural US and Ontario mine country, across the English Channel in a hot-air balloon, into the flight paths of fish hurled across Northern Territory Australia by a water spout, and even to the far, blinking orbit of a Navstar satellite. Neither safe nor conciliatory, these poems peer deep into the…mehr

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Like the fever dream of a modern Odysseus, Safely Home Pacific Western is an electric rumination on the moment of departure, of squaring those provisional instances of settlement with the ingenuity and cunning that it takes to persevere. Latosik's tour package journeys into ruined stretches of the rural US and Ontario mine country, across the English Channel in a hot-air balloon, into the flight paths of fish hurled across Northern Territory Australia by a water spout, and even to the far, blinking orbit of a Navstar satellite. Neither safe nor conciliatory, these poems peer deep into the notion of human progress to reckon with the only seeming certainty: that in a poem, as in our lives, we are done and undone by the emergent element we cannot control.
Autorenporträt
Jeff Latosik is the author of Tiny, Frantic, Stronger, a collection of poems that won the 2011 Trillium Award for poetry and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert award and the Relit award. His work has been published widely across Canada in magazines such as the Walrus, Maisonneuve, and the Literary Review of Canada, and journals such as the Malahat Review, Grain, and Prairie Fire. He is the winner of This Magazine's Great Literary Hunt (2008) and the P.K. Page Founder's award (2010) and a selection of his poems was shortlisted for the Bronwen Wallace award (2009). He teaches English in Toronto.