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(0)Joan Crate
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English
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In powerful language, that reflects the conflicts between the primitive and the sophisticated, Joan Crate redreams the passions, which animated and tormented her famous predecessor. Part white, part Mohawk princess, Pauline Johnson /Tekahionwake would perform her poems first in buckskin, then, after the intermission, in silk.
Author
Language
English
Description
Shortlisted for the 2002 Pat Lowther Award. Foreign Homes, Joan Crate's second book of poems, explores domesticity and dislocation, where what was thought to be home becomes alien, and where the alien is, piece by piece, made into home -- often in such simple, physical acts as laying a table, or driving a highway, or reassembling a torn photograph. In Crate's careful hands, the knife that cuts the vegetables for dinner can transform the blade-edge...