Brazilian Journal
2nd Edition
Published on 1. December 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-88984-347-9 (ISBN)
Description
A memory of Brazil and its natural beauty evokes calm, and a strange benediction, as poet P. K. Page recalls (for example) two coloured birds which alight on her husband, Arthur, at dusk, in Rio de Janeiro. Page's three years in Brazil, from 1957 to 1959, retain this luminous, slightly surreal quality in the poet's memory, baroque' she once called its landscape and culture.
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Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Ontario
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
sewn/stitched
Illustrations
Profusely illustrated by the author. Over sixty images, five of which are reproduced in full colour.
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88984-347-9 (9780889843479)
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Person
P. K. Page wrote some of the best poems published in Canada over the last five decades. In addition to winning the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1957, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1999. She was the author of more than a dozen books, including ten volumes of poetry, a novel, short stories, eight books for children, and a memoir, entitled Brazilian Journal, based on her extended stay in Brazil with her husband Arthur Irwin, who served as the Canadian A