Some Dance

Some Dance

by Ricardo Sternberg
Some Dance

Some Dance

by Ricardo Sternberg

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Overview

"To be able to pry apart: / this is object, this is subject / even though (confusion begins) / he can be both. Difficult then / to stand at the mirror and reflect: / I am this. This is what I am." Some Dance is a meditation on stories, the intersection of stories, of things made up, of things imagined, and of things lived - perhaps. Tricks played by memory, scrambling events from life with fiction, are a constant. Ricardo Sternberg seeks a fixed point from which to understand the world, but finds no resolution save for another poem. Everything is in flux, unstable, and leads to unexpected places: a commune in the 1960s, a drunken doctor who deals in contraband, a palm reader, a classroom visited by Jesus, a dance in a darkened kitchen. A lively collection that turns towards the commonplace, classical, and strange, Some Dance masterfully balances serious thought, big ideas, and good humour through surprising, elegant, and colloquial expressions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780773591769
Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date: 02/13/2014
Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series , #29
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 541 KB

About the Author

Ricardo Sternberg was born in Brazil and has lived in Toronto where he has taught Brazilian literature since 1979.
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