Saracen Island: The Poems of Andreas Karavis (Historical Society of Alberta) - Softcover

Solway, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550651315 ISBN 13: 9781550651317

Publisher: Véhicule Press, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Solway, David

About this title

About the Author:

David Solway is the author of many books of poetry including Modern Marriage, Bedrock, Saracen Island: The Poetry of Andreas Karavis, and Franklin's Passage, winner of the 2004 Le Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. His most recent collection, The Pallikari of Nesmine Rifat, was published in 2005. Currently an associate editor with Books in Canada, he lives in Hudson, Quebec.

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I am the one who speaks,
a voice become your voice
as you read, aloud or silently,
tracing a course with your finger.
Yet I am spoken by another
whose voice I cannot hear,
whose recitation escapes me,
whose language is adrift
in dark uncharted waters
even the shark and dogfish avoid.
I am the channel
between one I cannot hear
and one I cannot see.
I am the exile
in the desolate margins,
the sentinel on the coast.
I stand by the broken jetty.
The sun turns me to salt.

About this edition

• Publisher: Véhicule Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1550651315
• ISBN 13: 9781550651317
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108