Frogs in the Rain Barrel

In the title poem of this extraordinary first book, Sally Ito remembers her childhood in Alberta, when she set frogs in the rain barrel and watched them swim like stars in a “pool of still and nether depths/ whose mirrored surface was all.”Those imagined depths become a powerful metaphor in these poems, which reflect Ito’s experiences as a young Japanese Canadian living and writing in Alberta, the Northwest Territories, the West Coast and Japan. Hers is a distinct poetic voice, equally at ease with such diverse images as an aged Chinese man on the train, the Inuit goddess of the sea and the first crocus of spring. Frogs in the Rain Barrel was runner-up for the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award in 1996.

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In the title poem of this extraordinary first book, Sally Ito remembers her childhood in Alberta, when she set frogs in the rain barrel and watched them swim like stars in a “pool of still and nether depths/ whose mirrored surface was all.”Those imagined depths become a powerful metaphor in these poems, which reflect Ito’s experiences as a young Japanese Canadian living and writing in Alberta, the Northwest Territories, the West Coast and Japan. Hers is a distinct poetic voice, equally at ease with such diverse images as an aged Chinese man on the train, the Inuit goddess of the sea and the first crocus of spring. Frogs in the Rain Barrel was runner-up for the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award in 1996.

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Dimensions:

72 Pages
9in * 6in * 0.24in
0.47lb

Published:

January 01, 1995

Publisher:

Nightwood Editions

ISBN:

9780889711600

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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