Carrying Place

by Esta Spalding

Esta Spalding's first poetry collection explores the human body as a meeting ground for genealogy, geography, and history. The poems address the question of how human beings connect themselves to places and form identities within those places. Carrying Placebegins with poems involving the family recalled; the second section opens out to include a wider circle of voices; and in the third section the poems chart an emotional geographical migration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887845681
• ISBN13: 9780887845680
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press
• Length: 85 Pages