Passport / Angela Hibbs.
Passport / Angela Hibbs.
By
:
Hibbs, Angela, 1978-
Publication Date
:
2006
Publication Information
:
Montreal, Que. : DC Books,
Physical Description
:
88 p.
Subject Term
:
Canadian poetry -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
Series
:
NEW WRITERS SERIES
NEW WRITERS SERIES.
Summary
:
Born into a Island family, haunted by a cruel, redeeming, widow-making sea, Angela Hibbs transforms the plain, moving intervals and sometimes lurid bric-A-brac of a Canadian working class upbringing into something as gratifying as loose tobacco rolled into a mail-slot flier for smoking after a long day. With her mother, newly enlisted in The Canadian Forces and seeking a better life at a succession of mainland bases, the young poet finally escapes The Rock. She takes along her uprooted, meticulous gaze, memorably describing the peripatetic, close-quartered, nervous life of army families and their offspring.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781897190180
9781897190128
General Note
:
Poems.
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Corner Brook (WCB) | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 819.1 H52 | Checked In |
Labrador City (LLC) M. Butt | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 819.1 H52 | Checked In |
Pasadena (WPA) | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 819.1 H52 | Checked In |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 819.1 H52 | Checked In |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult NFic NL Ref - NL Rm | Adult Non-Fiction NL Reference - NL Room | 819.1 H52 | NonCirculating |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult NFic NL Ref - Prov Coll | Adult Non-Fiction NL Reference Provincial Collection | 819.1 H52 | NonCirculating |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult NFic NL Ref - Vault | Adult Non-Fiction NL Reference - Vault | 819.1 H52 | NonCirculating |
Stephenville (WST) (Kindale) | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 819.1 H52 | Checked In |