Born Sacred
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Bosun Chair, The
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Part family memoir, part poetry, part love letter to Newfoundland and its people, The Bosun Chair is a lyrical exploration of how we are fortified by the places of our foremothers and forefathers and by how they endured.
Like 'ballycater,' the ice that gathers in harbours along the coast, Jennifer Bowering Delisle gathers fragments of history, family lore, and poetry—both her own and that of her great-grandparents—to tell stories of shipwrecks, war, resettlement, and men and women's labour in early twentieth-century Newfoundland. With deftness and haunting imagery, The Bosun Chair reveals the inherent gaps in ancestral history and the drive to understand a story that can never fully be told.
Jennifer Bowering Delisle is the author of The Bosun Chair (NeWest 2017), a lyric family memoir set in early twentieth century Newfoundland. Her poetry and prose have been published in magazines and anthologies across North America. She has a PhD in English from UBC, and is also the author of a scholarly monograph. She recently joined the board of NeWest Press, and can sometimes be found teaching creative writing at the U of A Faculty of Extension. She is currently working on a manuscript of lyric essays about family and motherhood. She lives in Edmonton on Treaty 6 territory with her husband and two young children.
- ISBN-13
- 9781926455877
- Publisher
- Newest Press
- Imprint
- NeWest Press
- Publication date
- 1 April 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 120
- Dimensions
- 216 x 140 mm
- Language
- English
