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Author Le Dressay, Anne M., 1949-

Title Sleep is a country / Anne Le Dressay
Published [Ottawa] : Carleton University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (64 pages)
Series Harbinger poetry series ; 3
Harbinger poetry series ; 3.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Notes English
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Subject Canadian poetry.
Sleep -- Poetry
Identity (Psychology) -- Poetry
POETRY -- American -- General.
POETRY -- General.
Canadian poetry
Genre/Form Electronic books
Poetry
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773582965
0773582967
9786613843425
6613843423