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Foreign Park
Foreign Park situates itself in an epoch where prior assurances of the natural world's solidity begin to slip. Poisons enter the Fraser River Basin. An oil slick approaches by night engulfing a fishing vessel, leaving its captain in open waters. Page after page, Foreign Park makes strange with its inhabitants. As it unfolds, it plots itself along the Fraser River overlaying myth and historicity with present day. These calm poems detail the effects of destruction on land and simultaneously explore family and community in Vancouver's coastal cityscape. Foreign Park guides through subtle shifts in temperature and elevation in order to engage with questions on death, ageing, family and fidelity.
- GenresPoetry
90 pages, Paperback
Published April 15, 2015
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April 4, 2018
I'm sorry Vancouver Public Library, but I spilled pacho sauce on this most excellent library book.
March 17, 2024
Uneven in quality, but overall very good. Favorite poems were The Big Tree, Soup, Roost, and The Garbage Truck Trashed the Sunflower.
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