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Safely Home Pacific Western
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Jeff Latosik (Author)
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In his second collection of poems, Jeff Latosik looks to those provisional moments of arrival and anchoring in what Canadian poet Don Coles has called "the catastrophe of time."
Safely Home Pacific Western is a combination of words common to travel-package tour buses, and, as the title implies, there will be journeys to be had: into ruined stretches of the rural US and Ontario mine country, across the English Channel in a hot air balloon, into the flight paths of fish hurled across Northern Territory Australia by a water spout, and even the far blinking orbit of a Navstar satellite. But unlike that modern promise of a brief, comfortable excursion, these poems often end up in strange, uncomfortable places that shore up the always prevalent chaotic impulses of civilization, finding not reconciliation but charged moments of witness, of coming to terms with the very act of looking. Moving through alternate histories, cutting edge and antiquated technology, and the wily language of patent and invention, Safely Home Pacific Western peers deep into the notion of personal and communal progress to reckon with the only seeming certainty: that in a poem, as in our lives, we are done and undone by the emergent element we cannot control.
About the Author
Jeff Latosik is the author of Tiny, Frantic, Stronger, a collection of poems that won the 2011 Trillium Award for poetry and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert award and the Relit award. His work has been published widely across Canada in magazines such as the Walrus, Maisonneuve, and the Literary Review of Canada, and journals such as the Malahat Review, Grain, and Prairie Fire. He is the winner of This Magazine's Great Literary Hunt (2008) and the P.K. Page Founder's award (2010) and a selection of his poems was shortlisted for the Bronwen Wallace award (2009). He teaches English in Toronto.
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- Contributor: Jeff Latosik
- Imprint: Goose Lane Editions
- ISBN13: 9780864928658
- Number of Pages: 72
- Packaged Dimensions: 140x216x6mm
- Packaged Weight: 128
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
- Release Date: 2015-03-03
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Jeff Latosik is the author of Tiny, Frantic, Stronger, a collection of poems that won the 2011 Trillium Award for poetry and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert award and the Relit award. His work has been published widely across Canada in magazines such as the Walrus, Maisonneuve, and the Literary Review of Canada, and journals such as the Malahat Review, Grain, and Prairie Fire. He is the winner of This Magazine's Great Literary Hunt (2008) and the P.K. Page Founder's award (2010) and a selection of his poems was shortlisted for the Bronwen Wallace award (2009). He teaches English in Toronto.
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