Bamboo Church - Volume 13

From Two Wings She would drift into the kitchen trailing fragments of a hymn that spoke of God, a river, the pair of golden wings that would be hers on Judgement Day and were you to look at her then you might well decide your best bet for a meal would be to eat out: Ricardo Sternberg's astonishing third collection brings together poems both lyrical and complex, transparent and resonant. If Map of Dreams ended with the poet unable to reach his dreamt island, here he returns to the world around him and finds it full: a blind cook clattering in her kitchen, a great-uncle raising birds behind locked doors, lovers writing to each other out of touch and out of synch. He sees as well a world riven by magic: Noah's wife and her tears, a broom yearning for a dance, an angel inventing the blues. Like the mime in "Marcel, " Bamboo Church sets a lavish table "in the house of the hungry."

About the author

Ricardo Sternberg was born in Brazil and has lived in Toronto where he has taught Brazilian literature since 1979.

Product details

• Authors: Ricardo Sternberg
• Assisted by: Ricardo Sternberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Mcgill-Queen's University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2003
• EAN: 9780773525665
• ISBN: 978-0-7735-2566-5
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 192 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 95 g
• Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry; Hugh Maclennan Poetry Series; Hugh MacLennan Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies