Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten

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Almost Islands is a memoir of Collis's friendship with and regular visits to legendary poet Phyllis Webb--now in her nineties and long enveloped in the silence which followed her last published book in 1990--as well as an extended meditation on literary ambition and failure, poetry and politics, choice and chance, place, colonization, and climate change--the struggle that is writing, and the end of writing. "I go to see her because she is poetry's...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1772012076

ISBN13:9781772012071

Release Date:October 2018

Publisher:Talonbooks

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"

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Art Arts, Music & Photography Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Literary Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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