TY - BOOK ID - 77884448 TI - Treading fast rivers PY - 1999 SN - 1283531453 9786613843906 0773584463 9780773584464 0886293618 9780886293611 PB - [Ottawa, Ont.] Harbinger Poetry Series DB - UniCat KW - Nature KW - Geography KW - Thought and thinking KW - Mind KW - Thinking KW - Thoughts KW - Educational psychology KW - Philosophy KW - Psychology KW - Intellect KW - Logic KW - Perception KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Self KW - Cosmography KW - Earth sciences KW - World history UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77884448 AB - This collection of linked poems takes us on a journey where angels ride bicycles, wounds both grieve and heal, and "our will / diving through the shuddering / wet world, carries us." Resonant with "a longing so ardent and spacious," these are poems of place and displacement, sickness and health. A poet of striking maturity, Eleonore Schönmaier writes of icy depths and serene pools with equal ease. Unflinching when charting the terrains of human nature and the natural wilderness, she travels to such far-flung landscapes as Crete and Portugal, and the watery depths of the Sargasso Sea. Closer to home she looks beneath the surface of Northern mining communities and explores an abandoned lighthouse on the Atlantic coast. ER -