Duff Allie
Duff Allie - I Dreamed I Was An Afterthought - Paperback
Duff Allie - I Dreamed I Was An Afterthought - Paperback
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Description: A sometimes satirical reflection on hope in a time of hopelessness the poems in I Dreamed I Was an Afterthought use stubborn humour to grapple with the anxiety of moving forward during late capitalism. While many of the poems are set in Newfoundland the book also echoes the universal experience of loss leaving returns and never being able to return. The first section of the manuscript titled "" Some Disasters "" introduces real and imagined catastrophes. The St. Lawrence tidal wave the history of resettlement and the Muskrat Falls debacle stand next to poems that live in an imagined future where the capelin refuse to roll and snow refuses to fall. The second section is titled "" I dreamed I was an afterthought."" Here the eclectic poems turn to a more personal perspective of place my struggles with mental illness and a feminist exploration of familial relationships. In "" Of No Returns "" movement through time and space is tinged with the same lurking fear of irreversibility a fear which has been amplified during the pandemic. There is a yearning for the ""before times "" a time which may or may not exist.
Title: I Dreamed I Was An Afterthought
Author(s): Duff Allie
Publisher: Guernica Editions Canada
Barcode: 9781771838894
Pages: 100 Pages
Publication Date: 5/1/2024
Category: Fiction: Special Features
Description: A sometimes satirical reflection on hope in a time of hopelessness the poems in I Dreamed I Was an Afterthought use stubborn humour to grapple with the anxiety of moving forward during late capitalism. While many of the poems are set in Newfoundland the book also echoes the universal experience of loss leaving returns and never being able to return. The first section of the manuscript titled "" Some Disasters "" introduces real and imagined catastrophes. The St. Lawrence tidal wave the history of resettlement and the Muskrat Falls debacle stand next to poems that live in an imagined future where the capelin refuse to roll and snow refuses to fall. The second section is titled "" I dreamed I was an afterthought."" Here the eclectic poems turn to a more personal perspective of place my struggles with mental illness and a feminist exploration of familial relationships. In "" Of No Returns "" movement through time and space is tinged with the same lurking fear of irreversibility a fear which has been amplified during the pandemic. There is a yearning for the ""before times "" a time which may or may not exist.
Title: I Dreamed I Was An Afterthought
Author(s): Duff Allie
Publisher: Guernica Editions Canada
Barcode: 9781771838894
Pages: 100 Pages
Publication Date: 5/1/2024
Category: Fiction: Special Features
