Significance of Moths, The

By (author): Shirley Camia

Against the backdrop of the changing seasons, Shirley Camia’s The Significance of Moths is a graceful exploration of home and memory through the eyes of the migrant and the migrant child. As lives are displaced by new landscapes, where does home exist? In the land or in the mind? For new Canadians and their children there is no easy answer. In the journey to form identity, The Significance of Moths confronts the ghosts of “what was” with the here and now.

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Shirley Camia

Shirley Camia is the author of four collections of poetry. Her 2019 collection, Mercy, was a finalist for the High Plains Book Award and her 2017 Children Shouldn’t Use Knives was shortlisted for a ReLit Award. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New Quarterly and The Ex-Puritan.

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Against the backdrop of the changing seasons, Shirley Camia’s The Significance of Moths is a graceful exploration of home and memory through the eyes of the migrant and the migrant child. As lives are displaced by new landscapes, where does home exist? In the land or in the mind? For new Canadians and their children there is no easy answer. In the journey to form identity, The Significance of Moths confronts the ghosts of “what was” with the here and now.

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Dimensions:

96 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * 1in
1lb

Published:

April 15, 2015

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Turnstone Press

ISBN:

9780888015334

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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