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Inheritance
Kerry-Lee Powell
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Description for Inheritance
Paperback. A debut poetry collection by the winner of the 2013 Boston Review fiction contest. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 128.
"Powerful ...full of dark nostalgia."--Nathan Englander The Lifeboat All night in his lifeboat my father sang to keep the voices of the other men who cried in the wreckage from reaching him, he sang what he knew of the requiem, of the hit parade and the bits of hymns, he sang until he would never sing again, scalding his raw throat with sea-water until his ribs heaved, until the salt wept from his eyes on dry land, flecked at his lips in his squalling rages, streaked the sheets in his night sweats as night after ... Read more
"Powerful ...full of dark nostalgia."--Nathan Englander The Lifeboat All night in his lifeboat my father sang to keep the voices of the other men who cried in the wreckage from reaching him, he sang what he knew of the requiem, of the hit parade and the bits of hymns, he sang until he would never sing again, scalding his raw throat with sea-water until his ribs heaved, until the salt wept from his eyes on dry land, flecked at his lips in his squalling rages, streaked the sheets in his night sweats as night after ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Emeryville, Canada
ISBN
9781927428795
SKU
V9781927428795
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99-1
About Kerry-Lee Powell
Born in Montreal, Kerry-Lee Powell has lived in Australia, Antigua, and The United Kingdom, where she studied Medieval and Renaissance literature at Cardiff University and directed a literature promotion agency. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies throughout the United Kingdom and North America, including The Spectator, The Boston Review, and The Virago Writing Women series. In 2013, she ... Read more
Reviews for Inheritance
"Powell's poems are full of lively vignettes in which realism strikes lyrical sparks off harshness."
Times Literary Supplement "If you are willing to submerge yourself, you may see and hear something both dangerous and divine."
Arc Poetry Magazine "[Powell's] description is beautiful and tender...the land of elegy overlaps the land of dream."
The Fiddlehead
Times Literary Supplement "If you are willing to submerge yourself, you may see and hear something both dangerous and divine."
Arc Poetry Magazine "[Powell's] description is beautiful and tender...the land of elegy overlaps the land of dream."
The Fiddlehead