Colonies

A journey into childhood and a boy's adventure reading, the poet said, like the voyage of Captain Grant's children: behind the poems is a boy who has gone to summer camp and is reading. Their titles sound like boys' games: Creoles and Mestizos, Cape Horn, Her Majesty's Sailing Ships, Coral Bay. But childhood here holds the true measure of things; only the poet's son tells the truth. A recurring line, 'When I began to write, I did not yet know', asks what poetry costs: that it would take the world piece by piece and replace homeland, mother, father and first love.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

84 pages in the original

First published

2006 by Znak

Author's age

36 when first published

ISBN

9788324006977 (original)

9780983297031 (Zephyr Press, United States)