The Trick of Staying and Leaving

By David Zieroth

From Governor General's Award-winning poet David Zieroth comes a new collection about history, connections and travels in Europe.

Impromptu English lessons in a North Vancouver coffee shop, and subsequent trips to Bratislava, bring the speaker in these poems a warmer appreciation of friends and family as well as a wider vision of the interplay of folklore and culture, and of the human-made and natural world. These poems speak of affections that cross borders--geographical, historical and interpersonal--and that show us ways to love each other. Here are villages, people and landscapes in Slovakia, a post-Communist country with a complicated past and present, where Zieroth seeks what unites us across barriers. He brings this deeper sense of connection home with him, even when a part of his new sense of self and others lingers along the Danube.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1990776027
• ISBN13: 9781990776021
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Harbour Publishing
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.9"