Ghost Country
By Steve Noyes
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"In a sober and carefully understated voice I say: this is a damn good poet." Al Purdy on Backing into Heaven
Ghost Country enters the difficult electric air between cultures and lovers, alive to the fierce exoticism of desire but also to its confusions, its political and personal dissonances. Set in contemporary China, these poems spring from the intense anguished observations of the lover of a culture who is also, inescapably, the outsider. Lyrical, candid, tough, they are rooted in a passionate honesty that refuses to sentimentalize or look away. In Steve Noyes we have a writer who has steadily hewed to his own course, producing writing with its own unforgettable tang.
I turned from you. One look back -
your face wet, eyes downcast -
then one look back ramified, became
a city of return, where mind as emperor
holds court endlessly with the heart.
From "The Middle Kingdom"
"Ghost Country is not so much a book of poetry as the rangefinder of an exquisite camera, in which two worlds merge to form a single, rich vision. To read this book is to walk into this vision, to breathe its air, to speak its language. It's a journey worth taking, one that will linger long after the last page is turned." -- Terence Young
Steve Noyes
Raised in Winnipeg, and a graduate of UBC's MFA Writing program and Carleton's journalism school, Steve Noyes has published six books of poetry and fiction, and has published more than 100 poems, stories and book reviews. It is Just That Your House is So Far Away is his first novel. His writing appears regularly in such magazines and newspapers as The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Event, The Globe and Mail, Queen's Quarterly, and the Vancouver Sun. He has travelled extensively across China and over the past decade has worked and studied in Beijing, Shanghai, Taibei, Qingdao, and a little town north of Beijing.
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