'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.
- ISBN10 1847773958
- ISBN13 9781847773951
- Publish Date 1 May 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
- Format eBook
- Pages 78
- Language English