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The Sink House
Julia Williams
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Description for The Sink House
Paperback. Sequestered on a street in a dry Calgary suburb, our heroine, the House, finds herself embroiled in a stalled love affair with an elusive and alluring Oxfordshire riverbank. In a series of self-contained poems both prosy and lyrical, this work follows this curious and engaging affair, which mysteriously coincides with a slow and gradual flood. Num Pages: 80 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 171.
Home is where the heart is, or, in the case of The Sink House, home is what the heart is. Sequestered on a sleepy street in a dry Calgary suburb, our heroine, the House, finds herself embroiled in a stalled love affair with an elusive and alluring Oxfordshire riverbank. In a series of self-contained poems both prosy and lyrical, we follow this curious and engaging affair, which mysteriously coincides with a slow and gradual flood. Everything succumbs to the persistent rise of water: the street becomes a creek bed, wallpaper comes away in the night, sandbags melt, kitchen utensils ... Read more
Home is where the heart is, or, in the case of The Sink House, home is what the heart is. Sequestered on a sleepy street in a dry Calgary suburb, our heroine, the House, finds herself embroiled in a stalled love affair with an elusive and alluring Oxfordshire riverbank. In a series of self-contained poems both prosy and lyrical, we follow this curious and engaging affair, which mysteriously coincides with a slow and gradual flood. Everything succumbs to the persistent rise of water: the street becomes a creek bed, wallpaper comes away in the night, sandbags melt, kitchen utensils ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552451465
SKU
V9781552451465
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About Julia Williams
Julia Williams is a poet and prose writer whose work has appeared in The Literary Review of Canada, CV2, Queen St. Quarterly and THIS magazine. Most recently, her poetry was included in the 2005 Mercury Press anthology, Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry. She has lived in England and New Zealand, but is now nesting in Calgary, where she works ... Read more
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