Toward Antarctica

by Elizabeth Bradfield

Book Overview

Poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield's fourth collection, Toward Antarctica, documents and queries her work as a guide on ships in Antarctica, offering an incisive insider's vision that challenges traditional tropes of The Last Continent. Inspired by haibun, a stylistic form of Japanese poetry invented by 17th-century poet, Matsuo Bashō to chronicle his journeys in remote Japan, Bradfield uses photographs, compressed prose, and short poems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597098868
• ISBN13: 9781597098861
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Boreal Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 8.4"