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Passing Worlds
Tahiti in the Era of Captain Cook
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164 g
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229x152x7 mm
Beschreibung:
Elizabeth Holmes is the author of two previous books of poetry, The Patience of the Cloud Photographer and The Playhouse near Dark. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and many other journals. She lives in Ithaca, New York.
In Passing Worlds, Elizabeth Holmes gives us poems that imagine the historic voyages to Tahiti of Captain James Cook on the Dolphin and Endeavor. The poems examine both imperialism and exploration from various points of view, including a Tahitian priest, native girls stolen from their families, Captain Cook, and lowly sailors living on shipboard.The voyages brought back impressive stores of knowledge on new plant and animal specimens, and Captain Cook surely made a significant contribution to the history of exploration and science, but all these scientific rewards came at a high human cost.