Ghost Country by Steve Noyes
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This collection enters the difficult electric air between cultures and lovers, alive to the fierce exoticism of desire but also to its confusions, its political and personal dissonances
8.75 x 5.5 Inches | 128 Pages
Publication Date: April 24, 2006
Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781894078498
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Set in contemporary China, these poems spring from the intense anguished observations of the lover of a culture who is also, inescapably, the outsider. Lyrical, candid, tough, they are rooted in a passionate honesty that refuses to sentimentalize or look away. In Steve Noyes we have a writer who has steadily hewed to his own course, producing writing with its own unforgettable tang.
Praise for Ghost Country:
“Ghost Country is not so much a book of poetry as the rangefinder of an exquisite camera, in which two worlds merge to form a single, rich vision. To read this book is to walk into this vision, to breathe its air, to speak its language. It’s a journey worth taking, one that will linger long after the last page is turned.” — Terence Young
About the Author
Steve Noyes has published six collections of poetry, a story collection, and a novel. His latest poetry title is small data, from Frog Hollow Press. His second novel, November’s Radio, is forthcoming from Oolichan Books in Spring, 2015. Noyes was brought up in Winnipeg, studied writing at UBC, and has worked several times in China. He is currently a doctoral candidate at University of Kent in Canterbury, England, where he is working on another novel about aberrant beliefs.
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