Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas

By (author): Gloria Blizzard

A diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion.

In this powerful and deeply personal collection, Gloria Blizzard uses traditional narrative essays, hybrid structures, and the tools of poetry to negotiate the complexities of culture, geography, and language in an international diasporic quest.

These essays of wayfinding accompany anyone exploring issues of belonging ? to a family, a neighbourhood, a group, or a country. Here, the small is profound, the intimate universal; the questions are all relevant and the answers of our times require simultaneous multiple perspectives.

AUTHOR

Gloria Blizzard

Gloria Blizzard is an award-winning writer and poet, and a Black Canadian woman of multiple heritages, living on the Indigenous lands of the Americas. Her essays, reviews, and poetry have been published widely. She has an MFA from the University of King’s College and currently resides in Toronto.


Reviews

Mesmerizing, lyrical, and cadenced, Gloria Blizzard?s essays move like music.
– Ayelet Tsabari, author of The Art of Leaving

Gloria effortlessly weaves elements of her life ? its challenges and its gifts ? into contemporary conversations about identity, feminism, the diaspora, art, and belonging.
– Lorri Neilsen Glenn, author of The Old Man in Her Arms

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A diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion.

In this powerful and deeply personal collection, Gloria Blizzard uses traditional narrative essays, hybrid structures, and the tools of poetry to negotiate the complexities of culture, geography, and language in an international diasporic quest.

These essays of wayfinding accompany anyone exploring issues of belonging ? to a family, a neighbourhood, a group, or a country. Here, the small is profound, the intimate universal; the questions are all relevant and the answers of our times require simultaneous multiple perspectives.

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Details

Dimensions:

208 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * 1in
300gr

Published:

June 04, 2024

City of Publication:

Toronto

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Dundurn Press

ISBN:

9781459752801

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Language:

eng

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