Publication Date: 2000
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-920661-85-7
Page size: 5.75″ x 8.75″
144 pages
These closely observed stories, with their gritty poetic descriptions and finely ironic twists, confront Dabydeen’s Asian and Caribbean-South American identity with his experience of life in Canada, where he has lived for over three decades.
“It is the epiphany, the moment of illumination, which comes out of an ordinary experience.”
—World Literature Today
$22.95
Publication Date: 2000
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-920661-85-7
Page size: 5.75″ x 8.75″
144 pages
Cyril Dabydeen previously edited A Shapely Fire: Changing the Literary Landscape (Mosaic Press) and Another Way to Dance: Contemporary Asian Poetry in Canada and the United States (TSAR Publications). His work has appeared in the Oxford, Penguin and Heinemann Books of Caribbean Verse, and in over 60 literary magazines world-wide. A former Poet Laureate of Ottawa, his last novel Drums of My Flesh won the Guyana Prize for Best Book of Fiction and was nominated for the prestigious IMPAC/Dublin Literary Prize. He is the recipient of the 2010 Guyana Lifetime Achievement Award. He teaches at the University of Ottawa. |