Eyes Like Pigeons
| By: | Roberta Rees |
| Publisher: | ACP - Brick Books |
| Print ISBN: | 9780919626614 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781771311908 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1992 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Co-winner of the 1992 Gerald Lampert Award. Winner of the 1992 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry Eyes Like Pigeons, Roberta Rees' long poem, comes back, always, to this: "… Thi' in Vietnamese means poetry." Thi, a Vietnamese refugee, is this book’s associational matrix; playing with the possibilities of her name, Rees writes of Thi, poetry both self-reflexive and self-reflective, and immensely different from that which idealizes women with cliches like the title of this volume. The poetry she finds through Thi is as harsh as it is beautiful; its content as sorrowful as the style is liberating, joyful.