| Cathedral Contributor(s): Porter, Pamela (Author) |
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ISBN: 1553801067 ISBN-13: 9781553801061 Publisher: Ronsdale Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2010533969 |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 6.9" W x 8.25" (0.44 lbs) 100 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poetry. This collection of poems takes us on a journey--a very personal journey of Pamela Porter's own--to Africa and South America, those corners of the world the news reports never seem to cover: to Angola's thirty-year-long civil war, a landscape overrun with poverty, AIDS, and infant mortality; and to the struggles of ordinary people still haunted by the past horrors of Argentina's dirty war. With language deceptively simple, filled with music, color and rich detail, Porter writes with grace and compassion, making a fierce beauty from all she sees, celebrating the resilience of the poor and oppressed, who nonetheless remain determined to live their lives with dignity and with joy. |
Contributor Bio(s): Porter, Pamela: - Pamela Porter is the author of the multiple award-winning novel The Crazy Man, and two previous volumes of poetry: Stones Call Out, and The Intelligence of Animals. She earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Montana and has taught in universities and colleges in the US and Canada. In 1988, pregnant with her first child, Porter and her husband, Rob, travelled to Nicaragua and Guatemala to document the experiences of ordinary people caught in the Contra war and the government-sponsored terror against Guatemalan teachers and aid workers. Later with two children, they worked in Angola and Ghana, where she taught English during the day and at night rode in the back of a small pickup truck, delivering food to homeless children throughout the city of Luanda. Pamela Porter is now a sessional instructor at the University of Victoria and lives on Vancouver Island with her husband, children and a menagerie of rescued animals. |