SHIMA (Islands) |
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| Contribution by:
| Buddha, Alien |
| Author:
| Dooley, Tamiko |
| ISBN: | 979-8-3618-3060-2 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2022 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $10.99 |
Book Description:
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"A powerful, heady debut. In Dooley's evocative collection of poems, time bends and circles back on itself; senses overlap one another; scale is played with, translated. An ice-cream, a finger-tip, a raindrop, may all be bigger than the seaside horizon. Her poems have kinetic energy, and her characters are moving or are ready to move -in an elevator or an earthquake or a train station. Dooley gets it; these are deeply musical poems for now and always." - Benjamin...
More Description "A powerful, heady debut. In Dooley's evocative collection of poems, time bends and circles back on itself; senses overlap one another; scale is played with, translated. An ice-cream, a finger-tip, a raindrop, may all be bigger than the seaside horizon. Her poems have kinetic energy, and her characters are moving or are ready to move -in an elevator or an earthquake or a train station. Dooley gets it; these are deeply musical poems for now and always."
- Benjamin Scheuer, award-winning songwriter and playwright
"Tamiko Dooley's poems take us round the islands of Japan in glimpses that often read like dreams. Fragile islets of memory and sensual response, they weave a web of emotional connection to an elusive world of material objects, unnamed people, and scattered fragments of the Japanese language. This absorbing island tour brings more rewards with every reading."
-Professor Ann Jefferson, Emeritus Professor of French and Emeritus Fellow at New College, Oxford.