Little Hunger
Autor Philip Kevin Paulen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 noi 2008
Shortlisted for the Relit Award for Poetry
Philip Kevin Paul's first book, Taking the Names Down from the Hill won the 2004 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry. In Little Hunger, his second book for the WSÁ,NEC (Saanich) Nation of Vancouver Island, Paul continues to draw upon the rich oral culture and traditions of his people.
From the eye of a whale rising from the deep, to an albino pigeon being nursed back to health, Paul's work addresses nature, family and traditions that get passed on from generation to generation. A raccoon's eyes become "holy doors of lost keys" and sockeye swim upstream. With elegance and wisdom, Paul speaks of "the stories gone sad, / singing to the hunger that made them, / running past the voices no longer speaking."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780889712201
ISBN-10: 0889712204
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 133 x 191 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: Harbour Publishing
ISBN-10: 0889712204
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 133 x 191 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: Harbour Publishing
Recenzii
Philip Kevin Paul's connection with the Saanich Peninsula -- the land of his family, and his lifelong home -- is clear just from reading the contents listing of "Little Hunger", his second collection of poetry, which features poems like 'Descent into Saanich' and 'Brentwood Bay.' And, indeed, the poems themselves make that connection even more clear, delving into Paul's experience of the land and the people of the area, and the experience of the Wsanec people.-- Peninsula News Review
In "Little Hunger," his second collection, Philip Kevin Paul continues the project of his first book, "Taking the Names Down from the Hill" (2003) -- although here he writes in an even more focused manner. This project is to assert and evoke the connectedness of land, culture, and family in Central Saanich, British Columbia, north of Victoria, the traditional territory of the WSA, NEC Nation. The result is an intensely local set of poems that assume the place to be central to the author's personal and cultural identity. ... In "Descent into Saanich," he writes of approaching the local airport. In flight he cannot hear the sound of the water "as it slides against / the east end of our smallest islands," a sound he "know[s] by heart" and that "lays claim to [him], a child of Saanich." Paul's poetry is likewise claimed by place. At times his world seems private, scarcely comprehensible to outsiders; the poems, like [Gregory] Scofield's, also depict familiar sorrows.--Nicholas Bradley, "Canadian Literature"
In "Little Hunger," his second collection, Philip Kevin Paul continues the project of his first book, "Taking the Names Down from the Hill" (2003) -- although here he writes in an even more focused manner. This project is to assert and evoke the connectedness of land, culture, and family in Central Saanich, British Columbia, north of Victoria, the traditional territory of the WSA, NEC Nation. The result is an intensely local set of poems that assume the place to be central to the author's personal and cultural identity. ... In "Descent into Saanich," he writes of approaching the local airport. In flight he cannot hear the sound of the water "as it slides against / the east end of our smallest islands," a sound he "know[s] by heart" and that "lays claim to [him], a child of Saanich." Paul's poetry is likewise claimed by place. At times his world seems private, scarcely comprehensible to outsiders; the poems, like [Gregory] Scofield's, also depict familiar sorrows.--Nicholas Bradley, "Canadian Literature"
Notă biografică
Philip Kevin Paul is a member of the WSÁ,NEC Nation from the Saanich Peninsula on Vancouver Island. His work has been published in BC Studies, Literary Review of Canada, Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets and An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English. Paul has worked with the University of Victoria's linguistics department to ensure the preservation of the SENCOTEN language.
Philip Kevin Paul's second book of poetry, Little Hunger, was shortlisted for a 2009 Governor General's Literary Award. His first book of poetry, Taking the Names Down from the Hill, won the 2004 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry.
Philip Kevin Paul's second book of poetry, Little Hunger, was shortlisted for a 2009 Governor General's Literary Award. His first book of poetry, Taking the Names Down from the Hill, won the 2004 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry.