Description
In this powerful and deeply personal essay collection, Gloria Blizzard, in an international diasporic quest, moves up and down an urban subway line; between Canada and Trinidad; to and from a hospital emergency room; back and forth in time - and as a descendent of Africa living in the Americas, negotiates the complexities of culture, geography, race, and language. Through food, music, dance, and family history, Blizzard explores the art of belonging - to a family, a neighbourhood, a group, or a country. Using traditional narrative and the tools of poetry, Blizzard's essays hover at the crossroads, in the spaces where art, science, and spirit collide. The intimate becomes universal, the questions are all relevant, and the answers of our times require a sleight of hand - the holding of simultaneous and overlapping worlds.
Author: Gloria Blizzard
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 07/02/2024
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781459752801
ISBN10: 1459752805
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
About the Author
Gloria Blizzard is an award-winning writer and poet, and a Black Canadian woman of multiple heritages. Her work explores spaces where music, dance, spirit, and culture collide. She lives in Toronto.