spiritual catastrophe and redemption
sends fragments of memory ricocheting into sensuous poems that arrange themselves
Don Dickinson’s first book
She is the recipient of the Milton Acorn/Air Nova Poetry Award
The people in Aquarium are as varied as its locales
Brazilian Journal Fiction spiritual catastrophe and redemptionA memory of Brazil and its natural beauty evokes calm, and a strange benediction, as poet P. K. Page recalls (for example) two coloured birds which alight on her husband, Arthur, at dusk, in Rio de Janeiro. Pages three years in Brazil, from 1957 to 1959, retain this luminous, slightly surreal quality in the poets memory, baroque she once called its landscape and culture. How could I have imagined so surrealist and seductive a world? One does not like