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    Closer to Home
    Closer to Home
    Closer to Home
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    Closer to Home

    By Derk Wynand

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    Poised and buoyant, musing among ironies; alive to the psychologies of weather, night noises, mowing the lawn and putting it off; knowing the many mindscapes of neighbourhood, detecting the places where myth surfaces into a backyard or long weekend, where a situation teeters on the brink of art and "imagined creatures are making / real connections" -- what is Closer To Home is domestic life that has been given back its dance, the bite and mystery that both provokes and eludes the grasp of the mind.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateOct 15, 1997
    ISBN9781771310031
    Closer to Home
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    Derk Wynand

    Derk Wynand was born in Bad Suderode, Germany in 1944 and has lived in Canada since 1952. The author of several works of poetry, fiction and translation, and a former editor of The Malahat Review, he teaches in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. Brick Books published Wynand’s Closer to Home in 1997.

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