| Cycling with the Dragon Contributor(s): Woo, Elaine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0889713014 ISBN-13: 9780889713017 Publisher: Nightwood Editions OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss |
| Dewey: 811 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.5" W x 7.8" (0.25 lbs) 79 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Death/Dying - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cycling with the Dragon is a personal investigation of family, love, culture, self, and the helpless feeling of smallness. Elaine Woo's poems take the form of the words that they speak: she forms an o for the buoy that is a child's safety-raft (found in the solitude of a notebook and Harriet the Spy), and weaves a poem about fearing snakes and dreams into a descending slither. Woo's poems weave meaning with form, writing in a pastiche of diverse poetic voices who are small by virtue of age or status (be they women, children, ethnic minorities or the creatures of nature). And like tenacious seeds they break through to reach the sun, to face an abusive parent, bullies, the pain of shyness, envy, or racism |
Contributor Bio(s): Woo, Elaine: - Elaine Woo is a poet/librettist and non-fiction writer. Her work has appeared in ARC Poetry Magazine, Shy: An Anthology, V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2012), The Enpipe Line, Earthwalk, Ricepaper, West Coast Line, Ascent Aspirations and Megaphone Magazine. Elaine's art song collaboration with Daniel Marshall, "Night-time Symphony," won a Boston Metro Opera festival prize in 2013. Born in Saskatchewan, Elaine is now a resident of the west coast of British Columbia. |
