Subway Under Byzantium

by Maxine Gadd

First there was Backup to Babylon. Now comes Subway Under Byzantium, the second in Maxine Gadd's double act of works about the Gulf Islands and the Downtown Eastside: twin axes of the fall. Covering the period from 1986 to 1993, Gadd's writing in this volume is by turns intensely personal, slyly funny, and socially incisive. Her poetry draws on the people she knows and the sights she sees on the street. At the same time it invokes myth, formative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554200350
• ISBN13: 9781554200351
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: New Star Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.