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Bezig met laden... Small Bodies of Water (editie 2021)door Nina Mingya Powles (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I loved this book so much, I wish I had purchased a copy that I could dog-ear and underline - so many things to research/read/explore/learn. ( ) You can really tell that Nina Mingya Powles is a poet first and foremost - this is a book of prose essays using various bodies of water (some more tenuous than others) to explore belonging, family, nature, language, identity, and home, but the language is so beautiful and poetic that there were times that it felt more like a prose poem. She is of mixed race - white European/NZ on her dad's side, and Malaysian Chinese on her mum's, and she has lived and travelled throughout the world at various points in her life, so there were lots of places and cultures to inspire her writing. She writes about bodies of water she has known from swimming pools to coastlines to monsoon rains, and yet the chapter which affected me most was more internal, about periods - it was absolutely fantastic (now there's a word I wouldn't expect to use in the same sentence as 'periods'!!!). This is really hard to categorise, although a lot of people place it in nature writing (the proposal for the book won the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize a few years ago). It's lovely. 4/5. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Where is the place your body is anchored? Which body of water is yours? Is it that I've anchored myself in too many places at once, or nowhere at all? The answer lies somewhere between. Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo - where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through her life there have been others that have meant different things, but have still been, in their own way, home: from the wild coastline of New Zealand to a pond in northwest London. This collection of essays explores the bodies of water that separate and connect us, as well as everything from migration, food, family, earthquakes, and the ancient lunisolar calendar to butterflies. In lyrical, powerful prose, Small Bodies of Water weaves together personal memories, dreams and nature writing. It reflects on a girlhood spent growing up between two cultures, and explores what it means to belong."--Publisher. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)824.92Literature English English essays Modern Period 21st centuryLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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