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Title: |
That Light Feeling Under Your Feet |
| Series: |
Crow Said Poetry |
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| By (author): |
Kayla Geitzler |
| ISBN10-13: |
1988732212 : 9781988732213 |
| Illustrations: |
illus |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
230x155mm |
| Pages: |
112 |
| Weight: |
.178 Kg. |
| Published: |
NeWest Press - April 2018 |
| List Price: |
15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry by individual poets |
| Finalist for The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize at the New Brunswick Book Awards!Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry at the 2019 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!That Light Feeling Under Your Feet plunges headfirst into the surreal and slogging world of cruise ship workers. These masterfully crafted poems challenge perpetuating colonial and class relations, as well as the hedonistic lifestyle attributed to the employees of these floating resorts. Kayla Geitzler's debut collection interprets isolation, alienation, racism and assimilation into the margins as inevitable consequences for the seafaring workforce of the most profitable sector of the tourism industry.Exploring the liminal space between labour and leisure, the poems in That Light Feeling Under Your Feet are at once buoyant and weighty, with language that cuts like a keel through the sea. |
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"“In her formidable poetic debut, Kayla Geitzler navigates a world of ‘unregulated overtime and tip skimming’ aboard the cruise ship Saturnalia. No mere three-hour tour, That Light Feeling Under Your Feet is an unflinching portrait of life at sea, and the discrimination, racism, and misogyny inherent in the tourism industry. Darkly humorous and deftly realized, the poems in That Light Feeling Under Your Feet stick in the mind like ‘endless leviathans’ harnessing the controlled chaos of the word.”
— Jim Johnstone, author of The Chemical Life"
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