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Winter, the
Unwelcome Visitor
by Shaista Justin |
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Poetry
ISBN:
9781894770521
Paper $16.95
80 pages
Published: April 2009 |
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Winter, the
Unwelcome Visitor is a five-section poetic cycle amending the
ordinary with the extraordinary. The work shows versatility in
style and form and yet maintains poetic excellence: a careful
balance of metaphor, imagery and thought. Always experimental,
there is no one style that characterizes the book. From brief
and academic, to wordy and effusive, the style shifts according
to the subject. Unstintingly political, unforgivingly critical
of commonly held ideas about the relationship of humans to the
natural world and to each other, the relevance of this work to
both a Canadian and an international audience is undeniable. |
“Some of these
poems are vivid evocations of South Africa’s Western Cape, and
elegies of loss; others capture moments of longing and desire
between lovers, as well as passages of bitterness.”
—JM Coetzee
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Shaista Justin
emigrated to Canada at the
age of six and grew up in Toronto where she currently lives
with her husband and two children. Extensive travel has
contributed to her fascination with colonization and the
contemporary manifestations of historical tragedies. Her
dominant passions are writing fiction, producing theatre,
and academic research in the fields of Post-Colonial
Literature & Theory, Eco-criticism, Feminist Theory and the
18th-Century. She has published in
The Fiddlehead
&
New Contrast
and works freelance as a writer and editor.
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