Entering Sappho
By (Author) Sarah Dowling
By (author) Sarah Dowling
Coach House Books
Coach House Books
18th January 2021
Canada
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
Paperback
112
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
"This is a book that finds its beauty in impossible questions, impossible geographies. Taking as her concern Sappho, Washington, a once-thriving town that many called home but now is just marked by a sign on the side of the road, Sarah Dowling moves to tell the lost history of Sappho the town and also puts it in dialogue with Sapphos lyrics. Its an odd juxtaposition that she uses skilfully to examine the legacies of forgotten places, their role in manifest destiny, and the poetries that they too held on to define them." Juliana Spahr
Sarah Dowling is a poet, a scholar, a parent, and a teacher. She is the author of three poetry collections, Entering Sappho, DOWN, and Security Posture (which received the Robert Kroetsch Award for innovative poetry), as well as three chapbooks. In addition, she has written the first scholarly study of contemporary poems that use more than one language: Translingual Poetics: Writing Personhood under Settler Colonialism. This book received an honorable mention for the American Studies Associations Lora Romero First Book Prize. Originally from Regina, SK, Sarah lives in Toronto and works as an assistant professor in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Victoria College at the University of Toronto. Sarah Dowling is a poet, a scholar, a parent, and a teacher. She is the author of three poetry collections, Entering Sappho, DOWN, and Security Posture (which received the Robert Kroetsch Award for innovative poetry), as well as three chapbooks. In addition, she has written the first scholarly study of contemporary poems that use more than one language: Translingual Poetics: Writing Personhood under Settler Colonialism. This book received an honorable mention for the American Studies Associations Lora Romero First Book Prize. Originally from Regina, SK, Sarah lives in Toronto and works as an assistant professor in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Victoria College at the University of Toronto.