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Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection of 1995. "Jane Duran’s debut should not go unheralded. She delivers her courageous and richly textured poems with a quiet authority. This collection warrants celebration." Michael Donaghy
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About the Author
Jane Duran was born in Cuba to a Spanish father and American mother, and brought up in the United States and in Chile. Her first collection Breathe Now, Breathe (Enitharmon, 1995) won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Enitharmon brought out a second collection in 2002, Silences from the Spanish Civil War. Her third collection, Coastal (Enitharmon, 2005) received a PBS Recommendation. Her poetry has been widely anthologised. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 2005. She lives in London with her husband and son.
From Publishers Weekly
Displacement is the dominant theme in this first collection from a poet who was born in Cuba, raised in the U.S. and Chile and settled in London 30 years ago. Poems have such titles as "Migrations," "Expatriate," "Time Zones" and "Navigator" (which begins "Already he's American"). Other poems depict their narrator flying, traveling by boat, donkey, zebra. "In all these places we have been/ there will be no trace of us," Duran writes mid-volume, expressing directly the quiet sadness lingering behind the previous pieces. Four poems of terminated pregnancies are followed, in a masterful segue, by a portrait of her niece carrying and carving a pumpkin. Weaker poems include character portraits, childhood memories and new, yet cliched fairy tales. By the end of this volume, which won the 1995 Forward Poetry Prize for best first collection, Duran's themes fuse to give readers an unnerving portrait of a childless woman without roots.
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- PublisherEnitharmon Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1870612523
- ISBN 13 9781870612524
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages64
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