Why do we travel the world to discover where home really is? Even if we find it in the place we started from, is it ever really the same? In buckled into the sky, Adele Graf routes our search for home through ancestors in their own country and family who settled abroad.?
Yet its only after travel that were drawn to zigzag back to our pillared front door whether thats our current home, our childhood home, our minds home, our home in the world or all of these at once. Wed left home, had even ignored our house with its blue shutters, because, as these vivid and tender poems assure us, it will always be there.
Why do we travel the world to discover where home really is?
Previous Praise: “In the background, you can read the hands of a tinkerer building the unifying metaphor—of finding and giving directions taking us back to a personal history, a story and Suffern, New York—that carries these poems through. The individual poems show a sharp attention turning their commands into craft” —Archibald Lampman Award jury
Adele Graf grew up outside New York City and immigrated to Canada in 1968. math for couples is her first book of poetry, though more than half these poems have been published in Canadian journals includingThe Antigonish Review, CV2, The Dalhousie Review, RoomandVallum. She lives in Ottawa.
The second collection of poetry by promising Canadian poet Adele Graf, whose debut was shortlisted for the Archibald Lampman Award.
Replete and vibrant with detail, the poems of Adele Grafsbuckled into the skytransport the reader on physical and emotional journeys, evoking landscapes of Canada with more distant locales of Greece, Latvia and elsewhere. It is also a book of memorial, where the poet conjures the profound stories of her familial history and pays tribute to those unsung relatives now lost to tragedy and time, offering a generous, compassionate hand to the lă#
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