
Snapshots from Istanbul
Jacqueline Bishop(Author)
Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Published on 31. August 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-84523-114-9 (ISBN)
Description
Sensual, honest, often humorous, and as intimate as a confession, the poems in this volume illuminate the struggle for self-definition and the journey of an exile. Weaving multiple narratives together, this work focuses on the delicate relationship between place and identity. While likening herself to the Roman poet Ovid and the traveling painter Gauguin and recounting a doomed romantic relationship, Bishop deals with her own hopes of home and her perceptions of otherness. Ultimately, these poems confront the need to rearrange both the words on page and the self.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
91 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84523-114-9 (9781845231149)
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Person
Jacqueline Bishop is the founding editor of Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts & Letters. She lives in New York City.