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A Fold in the Map (Salt Modern Poets S.) (Hardback)
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Short Description for A Fold in the MapCharts two very different voyages: a tracing of the dislocations of leaving one's native country, and a searching exploration of grief at a father's final painful journey. This work deals with family, and longing for home from a new country. It recounts events more life-changing than merely moving abroad - a father's illness and death.
Full description- Publisher: Salt Publishing
- Published: 01 October 2007
- Format: Hardback 80 pages
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- Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
- ISBN 13: 9781844713967 ISBN 10: 1844713962
- Sales rank: 953,312
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Full description for A Fold in the Map
"A Fold in the Map" charts two very different voyages: a tracing of the dislocations of leaving one's native country, and a searching exploration of grief at a father's final painful journey. In the first part of the collection, Plenty - 'before the fold' - the poems deal with family, and longing for home from a new country, with all the ambiguity and doubleness this perspective entails. In the book's second half, Meet My Father, the poems recount events more life-changing than merely moving abroad - a father's illness and death, the loss of some of the plenty of the earlier poems. "A Fold in the Map" is a nod to Jan Morris' "Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere", where the traveller's state of in-between-ness is explored. Robert Frost said 'a poem begins as a lump in the throat, a home-sickness, a love-sickness' and in these poems of love and longing for home, family, and other loved ones, Isobel Dixon draws on a rich store of natural imagery, illuminating the ordinary at times with a touch of wry humour. Her vivid poems will speak memorably to travellers, lovers and all those who mourn. Praise for "Weather Eye": 'Isobel Dixon portrays people and places, and a sense of displacement, in sensuous yet meticulous detail. In these poems she celebrates creatures and landscapes in contrasting climates and cultures, her sharp perceptions invested with yearning and humour - and an aura of wonder' - Stewart Conn. 'Poems that bring a sensual physicality together with lively, startling imagery' - "Mail and Guardian", South Africa. '...a contemporary, accessible lyricism...characterised by sensuous natural imagery ...Dixon's gift is in the presentation of such a palpable, earthy presence and its accordant pathos of memory or displacement' - James Tink, "PN Review".
