Imaginary Origins: Selected Poems by Cyril Dabydeen (English) Paperback Book

Description: Imaginary Origins: Selected Poems by Cyril Dabydeen 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A few years ago, Kamau Brathwaite described Cyril Dabydeen as one of the most confident and accomplished voices in the Caribbean diaspora this side of the late 20th century. Now in the 21st century there is the opportunity to savour the growth and achievement of over thirty years. From his first Canadian publications, Goatsong, Distances, This Planet Earth, Hearts Frame and Elephants Make Good Stepladders from the 1970s and early 80s, to his Canadian publications of the 1990s, Stoning the Wind and Born in Amazonia, not forgetting his two Peepal Tree publications, Islands Lovelier than a Vision and Discussing Columbus, Cyril Dabydeen has selected those poems that best represent the journey he has made across multiple boundaries. From his roots as an Asian whose grandparents migrated as indentured labourers from 19th century India, from his shaping as a Guyanese growing up during a period of intense national ferment, and his life as an adult in Canada, Cyril Dabydeen has shaped a vision that makes an enlightening virtue of heterogeneity. Not merely a Guyanese exile, but a writer who has immersed himself in the landscapes, history and lived experience of Canada (and without losing the insistent promptings of Guyanese memory and concern), Dabydeens poetry shows the rich possibilities inherent in combining immigrant and diasporic selves. His work ranges across the confessional, the narrative and the mythic but always with an unwavering integrity in seeking the interior truth of the poem. He writes with a conversational directness, a clarity born of careful craft, but with an obliqueness of angle and density of image that constantly shifts the reader into new and rewarding frames of reference.Cyril Dabydeen was born in Guyana in 1945. He migrated to Canada in 1970. He is the author of almost a dozen collections of poetry, two novels and six collections of short stories. Author Biography Cyril Dabydeen is the author of Discussing Columbus. He lives in Ottawa City, Ottawa. Review "One of the most confident and accomplished voices in the Caribbean diaspora this side of the late 20th century." --Kamau Brathwaite Review Quote "One of the most confident and accomplished voices in the Caribbean diaspora this side of the late 20th century." Details ISBN1900715945 Author Cyril Dabydeen Short Title IMAGINARY ORIGINS Language English ISBN-10 1900715945 ISBN-13 9781900715942 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 811.54 Residence US Birth 1945 Pages 160 DOI 10.1604/9781900715942 Imprint Peepal Tree Press Ltd Place of Publication Yorkshire Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations Ill.(some col.) AU Release Date 2005-01-26 NZ Release Date 2005-01-26 UK Release Date 2002-08-01 Publisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd Year 2002 Publication Date 2002-08-01 Subtitle Selected Poems Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:136538886;

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