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    We Might As Well Be Underwater
    We Might As Well Be Underwater
    We Might As Well Be Underwater
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    We Might As Well Be Underwater

    By Gemma Cooper-Novack

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    We Might As Well Be Underwater is a collection of poetry split into two parts: Travelling and Not Travelling. Cooper-Novack lyrically discusses family, love, death, aging, and illness through travels. The collection travels through Cape Town, Sydney, Venice, Moscow, Chicago, Antarctica, London, Tokyo, Oregon, Florida, and many more places while also uniting the world through experiences.

    Readers will enjoy the sense of space and how certain memories or ideas are sprung from a specific environment. Throughout her travels Cooper-Novack explores many spaces, cleverly exposing emotion in places revisited and sharing memories in new environments. They will both feel foreign and familiar as she leads us to both specific and general places (places that are described and could be in any community). Cooper-Novack lyrically composes stanzas that discuss the journey of life through aging and travels while also discovering home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUnsolicited Press
    Release dateJan 18, 2017
    ISBN9781370009862
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