A diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion.
In this powerful and deeply personal collection, Gloria Blizzard uses traditional narrative essays, hybrid structures, and the tools of poetry to negotiate the complexities of culture, geography, and language in an international diasporic quest.
These essays of wayfinding accompany anyone exploring issues of belonging — to a family, a neighbourhood, a group, or a country. Here, the small is profound, the intimate universal; the questions are all relevant and the answers of our times require simultaneous multiple perspectives.
In this powerful and deeply personal collection, Gloria Blizzard uses traditional narrative essays, hybrid structures, and the tools of poetry to negotiate the complexities of culture, geography, and language in an international diasporic quest.
These essays of wayfinding accompany anyone exploring issues of belonging — to a family, a neighbourhood, a group, or a country. Here, the small is profound, the intimate universal; the questions are all relevant and the answers of our times require simultaneous multiple perspectives.
Authors
- Pages
- 208
- Published in
- Toronto, CA
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Halftitle 3
- Title 5
- Copyright 6
- Dedication 7
- Contents 9
- Preface 11
- I 13
- Black Cake Buddhism 17
- Ghost 31
- Turtle Soup 41
- The Yellow Dress 47
- Hummingbird 55
- Ancestor 63
- II 75
- Trains and Laundromats 79
- Cooking with Esteban, and Other Adventures in Salvador, Bahia 89
- Ether 97
- The Mathematics of Rage 105
- Passage 117
- III 125
- Music Notes 129
- Trifecta 145
- Water 169
- Joy 179
- The Year of Jazz 187
- Acknowledgements 197
- Publication History 199
- Notes 201
- Bibliography 205
- About the Author 209
