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  No Back Door (Paperback) By (author) Mervyn Taylor

  

  

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  Short Description for No Back DoorThere are those inhabitants of islands who say they "'fraid sea", meaning they have an abiding respect for the restless ocean and for whatever lies unseen past the horizon. 'Sea have no back door' is the phrase they use to indicate the idea of no return, of being swallowed up in the vastness of a world outside the shore that is a natural boundary.
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  • Publisher: Shearsman Books
  • Published: 15 September 2010
  • Format: Paperback 88 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9781848611412 ISBN 10: 1848611412
  • Sales rank: 1,260,516

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Full description for No Back Door

• There are those inhabitants of islands who say they "'fraid sea", meaning they have an abiding respect for the restless ocean and for whatever lies unseen past the horizon. Sea have 'no back door' is the phrase they use to indicate the idea of no return, of being swallowed up in the vastness of a world outside the shore that is a natural boundary. These poems chart the journeys metaphorical and literal of those who stay, and those who go, and the dilemma of the immigrant soul trying to live in two places at once.