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East and West
East and West, Laura Ritland’s astonishing debut, is a book of visions. These are roving poems drawn to defamiliarizing points of view, and are exquisitely attentive to the way the world exceeds our senses (“Cloud deduced cloud / after cloud and cloud.”) Beckoningly tender, lucid and intelligent, elegaic without being maudlin, East and West explores the thresholds—or “middle ground”—of childhood and family, diaspora and migration, and how new cultural ideas can disrupt traditional perspectives. “My bedroom window an escape hatch / to endless sights of coastal stars.” Ritland takes the measure of herself“I’m an integer of my own society”—in one of the most distinctive and beautifully turned styles in Canadian poetry.
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East and West
East and West, Laura Ritland’s astonishing debut, is a book of visions. These are roving poems drawn to defamiliarizing points of view, and are exquisitely attentive to the way the world exceeds our senses (“Cloud deduced cloud / after cloud and cloud.”) Beckoningly tender, lucid and intelligent, elegaic without being maudlin, East and West explores the thresholds—or “middle ground”—of childhood and family, diaspora and migration, and how new cultural ideas can disrupt traditional perspectives. “My bedroom window an escape hatch / to endless sights of coastal stars.” Ritland takes the measure of herself“I’m an integer of my own society”—in one of the most distinctive and beautifully turned styles in Canadian poetry.
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East and West

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East and West, Laura Ritland’s astonishing debut, is a book of visions. These are roving poems drawn to defamiliarizing points of view, and are exquisitely attentive to the way the world exceeds our senses (“Cloud deduced cloud / after cloud and cloud.”) Beckoningly tender, lucid and intelligent, elegaic without being maudlin, East and West explores the thresholds—or “middle ground”—of childhood and family, diaspora and migration, and how new cultural ideas can disrupt traditional perspectives. “My bedroom window an escape hatch / to endless sights of coastal stars.” Ritland takes the measure of herself“I’m an integer of my own society”—in one of the most distinctive and beautifully turned styles in Canadian poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781550655032
Publisher: Véhicule Press
Publication date: 04/01/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 88
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Laura Ritland’s poems have appeared in magazines across Canada, including The Fiddlehead, CNQ, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, Arc Poetry Magazine, and The Malahat Review. A recipient of the 2014 Malahat Far Horizons Award for Poetry, she currently divides her time between Vancouver and the California Bay Area, where she is a PhD student in English at UC Berkeley.

Table of Contents

N.

Summer Parties 11

First Houses 12

Tasks 13

Doorknob Talk 14

Vincent, in the Dream of Zundert 15

Introduction to Mystery 16

Arrival at the New College 18

Norway 19

Mythological Dinner 20

Fortress of Care 22

S.

Interview with the Body 27

Like 28

Your Body is Growing 29

Girlhood Story 30

Prayer 31

The Age of Fungi 32

Goose Territory 33

Vestigial 34

Interior Monologue 35

Art Job 36

Modern Art 37

Classical Fantasy 38

After Lee Bul's The Secret Sharer 39

Hysterics 41

E.

East of Error 53

To Marianne Moore's Hat 54

Our Latter Day Pigeons 55

Marine Economy 59

Nautilus 60

Shark 61

Giant Squid 62

Jellyfish 63

Sea Spider 64

Water Movement 65

Ammonite 66

Sinfonia Concertante 67

Sonnet for Winding Late Clocks 68

East and West 69

Flight Materials 70

W.

April 77

Thing 78

Pacific Spirit 79

Song 80

Creaturely 81

October Moon 82

All Hours Are Present 83

Garden Leave 84

Outpost 85

Notes 93

Acknowledgements 94

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