Joy Kogawa

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From the Lost and Found Department (eBook, ePUB)

New and Selected Poems

Beschreibung

A career-spanning volume that brings together new and selected works by an iconic voice in Canadian literature. From the Lost and Found Department, by the trailblazing Joy Kogawa, is a profound work of spare, trenchant, and haunting poems that lets us stay with the quietest qualities of beauty and the sublime. This essential volume brings together thrilling new work with selected poems from The Splintered Moon (1967), A Choice of Dreams (1974), Jericho Road (1977), Woman In the Woods (1985), and A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems (2003). Kogawa's poems here are evidence that our every vulnerability can open into vast channels of grace.

Technische Details

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• Größe: 0.98MB
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Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech
• Alle Texte können hinsichtlich Größe, Schriftart und Farbe angepasst werden
• ARIA-Rollen für verbesserte strukturelle Navigation
• Hoher Kontrast zwischen Text und Hintergrund (min. 4.5 =>1)
• Inhalte verständlich ohne Farbwahrnehmung
• Navigierbares Inhaltsverzeichnis für direkten Zugriff auf Text und Medien

Autor

JOY KOGAWA is best known as the author of Obasan (1981), which is based on Joy and her family's forced relocation from Vancouver during the Second World War when she was six years old. Joy's other books for adults include Itsuka (1992, published as Emily Kato in 2005), The Rain Ascends (1995), and Gently to Nagasaki (2016). Her works for children are Naomi's Road (1986, 2005) and Naomi's Tree (2009). Since 1967, Joy has also published several poetry collections, including A Choice of Dreams (1974), Jericho Road (1977), and A Garden of Anchors (2003). Among her many honours, Joy has received an Order of Canada (1986), an Order of British Columbia (2006), and, from the Japanese Government, an Order of the Rising Sun (2010) for "her contribution to the understanding and preservation of Japanese Canadian history."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McClelland & Stewart
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780771005145
• Artikelnr.: 67877974