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"A sense of place and story dominates this first collection. Soraya Peerbaye... has an ear for languages and how it shapes experience... Peerbaye as a companion-poet is quietly deft, her voice ranging from lyrical to musical plain-speaking." -- Barbara Myers * Arc Poetry Magazine *
"These are marvellous poems, deft, rich, searching, and with remarkable range: tender in recalling her father's French and Creole roots, spare and brilliant in depicting the landscape of Antarctica. For Peerbaye words connect lives across time and space. Reading her poems sharpens our own connection with the world." -- John Steffler
"If the poet has a duty to see and name, Soraya Peerbaye has answered the call. I believe in this, the object, quotidian, beloved, she writes, fully aware of how names change as we encounter them, lose and regain and even rename them, in turn renaming us. Unapologetically gentle and intimate, this ambitious first book is not a mere coming-of-age, but a coming into one's own, introducing us to an explorer aware of the joys and dangers of intrusion." -- Priscila Uppal

Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic

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      Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 02/10/2009
      ISBN13: 9780864925367, 978-0864925367
      ISBN10: 864925360
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      "A sense of place and story dominates this first collection. Soraya Peerbaye... has an ear for languages and how it shapes experience... Peerbaye as a companion-poet is quietly deft, her voice ranging from lyrical to musical plain-speaking." -- Barbara Myers * Arc Poetry Magazine *
      "These are marvellous poems, deft, rich, searching, and with remarkable range: tender in recalling her father's French and Creole roots, spare and brilliant in depicting the landscape of Antarctica. For Peerbaye words connect lives across time and space. Reading her poems sharpens our own connection with the world." -- John Steffler
      "If the poet has a duty to see and name, Soraya Peerbaye has answered the call. I believe in this, the object, quotidian, beloved, she writes, fully aware of how names change as we encounter them, lose and regain and even rename them, in turn renaming us. Unapologetically gentle and intimate, this ambitious first book is not a mere coming-of-age, but a coming into one's own, introducing us to an explorer aware of the joys and dangers of intrusion." -- Priscila Uppal

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