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Coastal
Coastal is about endings and beginnings. Jane Duran’s poems explore that transforming, constantly shifting overlap in what we remember and what we experience now. But this coastal place of the mind is also geographical: it is childhood in New England, adolescence in Chile, it is Algeria today. Themes of losing and finding, releasing and holding run through the whole collection, from poems about the last years of her mother’s life, to a sequence celebrating her son and motherhood.
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First published September 1, 2005
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Jane Duran
4 books2 followersJane Duran (born 1944) is a Cuban-born poet.
Duran was born to an American mother and a Spanish father, Gustavo Durán, who had fought with the Republican army in the Spanish Civil war. He fled Spain after Franco's victory but would never talk about his experiences. The themes of silences, loss and exile haunt much of her work. Duran was brought up in the United States and Chile, moving to England in 1966 after graduating from Cornell University. She now lives in London with her Algerian husband and their son.
She has published four collections – Breathe Now, Breathe (1995), Silences from the Spanish Civil War(2002), Coastal(2006) and Graceline, all published by Enitharmon Press. Breathe Now, Breathe won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection and in 2005 Duran received a Cholmondeley Award.
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Duran was born to an American mother and a Spanish father, Gustavo Durán, who had fought with the Republican army in the Spanish Civil war. He fled Spain after Franco's victory but would never talk about his experiences. The themes of silences, loss and exile haunt much of her work. Duran was brought up in the United States and Chile, moving to England in 1966 after graduating from Cornell University. She now lives in London with her Algerian husband and their son.
She has published four collections – Breathe Now, Breathe (1995), Silences from the Spanish Civil War(2002), Coastal(2006) and Graceline, all published by Enitharmon Press. Breathe Now, Breathe won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection and in 2005 Duran received a Cholmondeley Award.
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