Watermarked takes a penetrating look at the very emotional and
traumatic experience of migration from a Canadian perspective. For
refugees, it is understandable, but what prompts people to leave
places of relative security to search for new lands and
experiences? Toronto, the migration destination of choice for many,
allows the poet Cynthia James, the opportunity to meet a variety of
migrants and thus explore a range of enigmatic reactions. The poems
look at factors such as age, ESL barriers, new adjustments to
climate, the strength of people who undertake this mission, and how
they cope or flounder in their everyday lives as they ride the
Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) service. Watermarked even takes a
ride on a sightseeing trip, among a multicultural band, on a coach
across provinces, to New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, facing
the Atlantic. For the Caribbean migrant, in particular, poems
reflect on the activities of subjects from far-flung empires and
explore in continued amazement, what can cause once termed
post-colonial subjects to return to swear allegiance to the queen.
The poems in Watermarked are replete with analogies of ebb and
flow, becalming waters and raging tempests. The four sections,
Signs and Signatures, Parchment, Reversing Falls, and Google Knows
Your Name, read like a continuous migration poem. The poems echo
the bones of many Diasporas, and they are the meeting place for a
myriad of unexpected cousins. Watermarked is Canadian, Caribbean
and yet universal, suggesting alternative definitions of home and
loyalty - beyond the limitations of places of origin and nativity.
General
Imprint: |
Cynthia James
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2014 |
First published: |
2014 |
Authors: |
Cynthia James
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 7mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
122 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-9936094-0-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-9936094-0-6 |
Barcode: |
9780993609404 |
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