Rivers applaud forever /
"In Rivers Applaud Forever, Raymond Filip, the craftsman and musician, showcases his spoken-word texts that perform on a silent page, as well as his "say then play" recitals on stage. This collection features free verse and end rhymes; satire and nature studies; a concrete poem and a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; Lancaster, U.K. :
Guernica Editions,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Essential poets ;
258. |
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| Summary: | "In Rivers Applaud Forever, Raymond Filip, the craftsman and musician, showcases his spoken-word texts that perform on a silent page, as well as his "say then play" recitals on stage. This collection features free verse and end rhymes; satire and nature studies; a concrete poem and a prose proem; a linked sequence of narratives, and a long bird call to the uncaptured. Filip's peace process comes to terms with his birth and disfigurement in a displaced persons camp after World War II; the unspeakable abuses of growing up with domestic violence and a broken home in the riverside slums of Verdun and Point St. Charles; his clandestine participation in the resistance movement that led to Lithuanian independence; the ups and downs of a mixed marriage to a Filipina; his battle with cancer; the journey of faith and global identity; and the joys of defying his age through his first love: sports. Pick up this book, and this book will pick you up."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 134 pages ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 1771833602 9781771833608 |