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Roaming Charges

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  • Publisher:
    Brick Books, 2015
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Di Nardo, Antony
    Date:
    Created
    2015
    Summary:

    A turbulent, celebratory flight from an accomplished witness and journeyman.

    Antony Di Nardo’s third collection of poems occupies the air between Canada and Lebanon, viewer and painting, victim and triggerman, reader and page. Blending a bohemian ebullience with a reporter’s obligation to witness, the poems in Roaming Charges are a heady and celebratory bouquet of jet fuel, camaraderie and muezzin music. They look long and hard at their subjects, but also speak of the trails those subjects leave across the skies.

    I look for contraband from the infinite
    in the work of others, ducks in a tree,
    tales of mishaps/shipshapes, insincerities
    that gloss the fugitive crickets and their happiness,
    slip-ups at the marvels of a spirit world
    still stuck in the land of vapours, a sound
    like distant thunder from the back of the plane…

    —from “James Tate (Poets on a Plane)”

    Praise for Roaming Charges:

    “This latest collection is luminous with the undeniable self in lyrical surrender to the dramas of mankind.” —Robin Richardson

    “This is poetry that aches… that matters.” —Michael Mirolla

    Genre:
    Canadian poetry, Poetry
    Subject(s): Canadian poetry
    Original Publisher: London, Brick Books
    Language(s): English
    Collection(s)/Series: Brick Books Poetry