Questions of Travel
A ship docks at Santos and the traveller's immediate demands of a new country are for something bigger, or better, or a different language; inland, fire balloons go up on the saint's day and one comes down on a nest of owls. Half the book stays in Brazil, where the poet had been living for a decade, and half goes back to a Nova Scotia childhood, a grandmother's kitchen and a scream that hangs over the village.
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