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Entering Sappho

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Entering Sappho

Contributors:

By (Author) Sarah Dowling
By (author) Sarah Dowling

ISBN:

9781552454183

Publisher:

Coach House Books

Imprint:

Coach House Books

Publication Date:

18th January 2021

Country:

Canada

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

112

Dimensions:

Width 127mm, Height 203mm

Description

  • This book is very sexual and queer.
  • Sappho, WA, is a ghost town.
  • It is set in the wilderness: people are crossing streams, having sex in the forest, carrying guns around, etc. Sappho in Sappho!
  • This book is trying to offer a counter to the ways in which white people especially women and queer folks try to use our minoritized sexualities and genders to shirk complicity with settler colonialism. Instead, this book offers another way of reflecting on our present location and our relationships to history, suggesting ways of going into, rather than getting out of rightful guilt.

Reviews

"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

Author Bio

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.

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