Sleep is a country / / Anne Le Dressay

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820873703321
• Autore: Le Dressay Anne
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Ottawa], : Carleton University Press, c1997
• ISBN: 1-283-53097-X; 9786613843425; 0-7735-8296-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 64 p
• Collana: Harbinger poetry series ; ; 3
• Disciplina: C811/.54
• Soggetti: Sleep; Identity (Psychology); Interpersonal relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- All my Disguises -- In my Next Life -- Athena-Woman -- Possession -- All my Disguises -- Gil -- The Grey Breath -- My Upstairs Neighbour -- Blind of Smell* -- For Janet, Who Died Aged Twenty-Three -- People Here -- After Reading Sylvia Eraser’s BERLIN SOLSTICE -- Memento Mori -- Emploi Du Temps -- My Grandmother -- The Third Death -- Last Words -- Kildonan Cemetery, Winnipeg, June 1993 -- Black Dog Circling -- Trust Me -- I Collect Collectors -- Women Know These Things -- The Desert -- The Way you Feel -- Black Dog Circling -- When Anger Becomes Art -- Saying no to a Vampire -- As Easily as Breathing -- Touching -- A Patience of Passion -- Rock Solid -- This Pedestal -- Rehearsal for Goodbye -- Behind Glass -- The Mind Below the Mind -- Of Fire and Time -- I Have Gone -- Sleep is a Country -- Sleep is a Country -- Like a Blue Stone -- In the Sleep of my Flesh -- Ghost Cats -- Nuit Blanche -- Earth-Bound -- Avoid the Angels -- Blood from Stone -- A Perfect Hatred -- Phantom Pain -- Faraway People -- Waiting -- Alongside -- Blue Stone II -- Speaking in Tongues -- This Landscape -- Then -- Spaces of Stillness -- The Cutting Edge -- Crossing Over
• Sommario/riassunto: A woman of two worlds explores personal identity, spirituality and relationships in Sleep is a Country, her first collection. Her life has been ; both prairie and capital, French and English. Le Dressay's often removed observations and sometimes heated interactions are shared in poems connected by strong emotion.