Full Description
'I should never ask / directions to my childhood', writes Fred D'Aguiar: there is no way back home. The Rose of Toulouse is a book of geographies tracing the various places the poet has lived, their histories, and his own history as he travels away from who he was. His transformations and shifts - between Britain, Guyana and the USA - are his identity: 'Each year I travel, my passport photo / looks less like me.' In both flexible free verse and more formally patterned poems, D'Aguiar conveys the fragility of flesh and the transience of memories.
Contents
Politics Rigged Key West Excise Boy Soldier War on Terror Wartime Aubade Trace Monday Morning Shoes My Father Wore The Lady with the Purple Glove Underwater Wednesday's Child Yesterday's News The Dream Giver Letter from King Ferdinand of Spain to the Tainos in October 1493 Legal Tender Dreamboat Wish News from Nowhere English Life Dalí on Dickens Calvino In MemoriamLove 19 Victoria Street, Shrewsbury A Concrete Walk in the Woods The Rose of Toulouse Saturday, Ocean Creek Calypso History Lesson from American Vulture- The Vulture Goddess - Vulture Highway Code - Vulture Red Letter Day - Vulture's Theory of Perpetual Return - Vulture in El Dorado Emily Dickinson, How Does Your Garden Grow? The Storm The Fence Night Swim The Giant of Land's End
