Joseph Dandurand

The East Side of it All (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dandurand's work tackles complicated personal and social issues by drawing on his observations of the natural world. His voice is lyrical yet intimate, obscured yet sitting with you at the kitchen table having a cigarette. The East Side of It All is the journey of a broken man gifted with stories and poems who finally accepts his gift and shares with the world his hidden misery and joy:

there was this woman that I fell in love

with but she will never know who I am and I hide

in the back of the room as she goes about her thing

and I go about mine, and once I tried to look

into her eyes but when she looked back, I knew

she was a spirit and I was still a human and she passed

right through me and I felt the coldness of her

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nightwood Editions
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780889713819
• Artikelnr.: 60398620

Autorenporträt

Joseph Dandurand is a member of Kwantlen First Nation located on the Fraser River about twenty minutes east of Vancouver, BC. He resides there with his three children. Dandurand is the director of the Kwantlen Cultural Centre and the author of two books of poetry, I Want (Leaf Press, 2015) and Hear and Foretell (BookLand Press, 2015), and the children's book The Sasquatch, the Fire and the Cedar Baskets (Nightwood Editions, 2020).