Train travel always leads to great adventures; the countryside, like a moving picture show, unrolls itself before one's eyes. One is transported to the wild places of earth - forest, mountain, desert; and always there is the counterpoint between life within the train and life without. Train travel,
This Brighter Prison: A Book of Journeys
โ Scribed by Connelly, Karen
- Book ID
- 110845341
- Publisher
- Brick Books
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 48 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781771312646
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โฆ Synopsis
In her first book of poetry since The Small Words in My Body, which won the Pat Lowther Prize for 1990, Karen Connelly writes, in the tradition of the writer-adventurer, of vivid encounters and reflections abroad and at home, continuing her pursuit of "living knowledge of the world." These poems enact journeys of the body and heart with candour and sensuous grace, catching the very texture of human experience in the lithe, muscular lines which have a cat-like metaphorical reach.
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