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| Title: | Backscatter
: New & Selected Poems |
| Author: | Raymond Filip |
| ISBN: | 1550711288 : 9781550711288 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 125x200mm |
| Pages: | 138 |
| Weight: | .15 Kg. |
| Published: | Guernica Editions - July 2001 |
| List Price: | 8.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Poetry & poets |
At the age of eighteen, Raymond Filip wrote 'I am a citizen of the world in exile'. Thirty years later, Filip's ethno-eccentric vision has remained prescient and true. Born in a displaced persons camp after World War II, Lithuanian by blood, Canadian by citizenship, a Quebecker by homing instinct, and Asian by marriage to a Filipina: three continents populate Filip's voice.
"Raymond Filip's poems have a ferocious beauty -- the beauty of a wound in the process of healing but still giving pain. His poems are an alchemy of images, memories and expectations, pronounced beautifully, without hesitation, poems to be sung for the few or many ears that listen." -- R Murray Schafer.
