Winter Sport: Poems (Signed First Edition; First Printing) + How To Draw Blood From A Stone)

Uppal, Priscila

ISBN 10: 1894469496 / ISBN 13: 9781894469494

Verlag: Mansfield Press, Toronto, ON, 2010

Beschreibung

As new and unread and very fine copy signed by Priscila Uppal copy on the title page. In very collectible condition. (+ Included with this listing is a fine, first printing, copy of Priscila Uppal's first collection of poetry - How To Draw Blood From A Stone. ISBN:9781550962307, Published in 1998 by Exile Editions). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000915

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Winter Sport: Poems (Signed First Edition; ...

Verlag: Mansfield Press, Toronto, ON

Erscheinungsdatum: 2010

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: As New

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe:

Have you ever wondered what a luge poem or snowboarding poem or hockey poem would look like? In this collection by celebrated poet Priscila Uppal, who was the poet-in-residence for Canadian Athletes Now during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, physical and verbal acrobatics meet in a dazzling competition of risky play, inventive movements, and daring heights. Try a speed skating suit on for size, slide down the skeleton track, seek out a date with a curler, make love to a snowboarder, and play hockey with the nation's best Ð experience winter sport fun like never before.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Priscila Uppal is a poet, fiction writer, academic, and professor of Humanities and English at York University. She is the author of eight books of poetry, including: Winter Sport: Poems (Mansfield Press, 2010), Successful Tragedies: Selected Poems 1998-2010 (Bloodaxe Books, U.K. 2010), and Traumatology (Exile Editions, 2010). Her works have been published internationally and translated into numerous languages. Additionally, she is the editor of several anthologies and essay collections. Priscila Uppal's works have been taught in several countries. She is a frequent guest on radio, television, and in print media, and has designed and led writing workshops for over a decade. She lives in Toronto.

Molly Peacock is the author of six volumes of poetry, including The Second Blush; a memoir, Paradise, Piece by Piece; and a one-woman show in poems, ÒThe Shimmering Verge.' She is a contributing editor of the Literary Review of Canada and a faculty mentor at the Spalding MFA Program. Her latest work of nonfiction is The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72, which was nominated for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.