About this ebook
'I should never ask directions to my childhood', writes Fred D'Aguiar: 'There is no way back home'.
The Rose of Toulouse is a book of geographies tracing the various places the poet has lived, their histories, and his own history as he travels away from who he was. His transformations and shifts - between Britain, Guyana and the USA - are his identity: 'Each year I travel, my passport photolooks less like me.'
In both flexible free verse and more formally patterned poems, D'Aguiar conveys the fragility of flesh and the transience of memories.
About the author
Fred D'Aguiar is a poet, a writer, and a professor of English and Africana studies at Virginia Tech State University. He is the author of British Subjects, Continental Shelf, English Sampler: New and Selected Poems, and The Longest Memory. He is also the recipient of the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award. He lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.
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