Short Journey Upriver toward Oishida
日本の風景と旅の経験を題材に、観察と記憶を静かな調子で織り上げる詩集。遠い土地への移動と、そこから立ち上がる帰属感の揺れを繊細に描く。
作品情報
旅先の風景から、帰属と記憶の感覚が立ち上がる。
カナダの詩人。静謐で観照的な詩風により、風景や記憶、旅の経験を繊細に表現する。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- McClelland & Stewart
- 発売日
- 2004-03-16
- ページ数
- 96ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 14.5 x 0.6 x 21.6 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780771015915
- ISBN-10
- 0771015917
- 価格
- 3067 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/History & Criticism/Criticism & Theory
In Roo Borson’s new watershed collection, it is as though language were being taught to increase its powers of concentration, to hearken simultaneously to the fully impinged-upon senses, the reflecting mind with its griefs and yearnings, the heart with its burden of live memory. Always “the line bends as the river bends,” a quick ever-adjusting music that carries in its current those cherished, perishable, details of eye and ear, mid-life reflections on loss and home, the subtle shifts in season suddenly made strange and re-awakened. Recurrently, probingly, the line returns to the place of poetry in our lives. In the spirit of Basho’s famous journey to the far north, Borson’s “short journey” reminds us of the role of poetry in shaping and deepening our engagement with the world.
Roo Borson has published ten books of poems, most recently Short Journey Upriver Toward Ôishida , winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, as well as a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. With Kim Maltman and Andy Patton, she is a member of the collaborative poetry group Pain Not Bread, whose first book, Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei , was published in 2000. She lives in Toronto.
関連する文学賞
- グリフィン詩賞 第5回（2005年） ・Winner
- グリフィン詩賞 第8回（2008年） ・Winner