Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas

Essays

Gloria Blizzard

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Dundurn Press
09 October 2024

Literary essays; Migration, immigration & emigration

A diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion.

In this powerful and deeply personal essay collection, Gloria Blizzard, in an international diasporic quest, moves up and down an urban subway line; between Canada and Trinidad; to and from a hospital emergency room; back and forth in time - and as a descendent of Africa living in the Americas, negotiates the complexities of culture, geography, race, and language. Through food, music, dance, and family history, Blizzard explores the art of belonging - to a family, a neighbourhood, a group, or a country. Using traditional narrative and the tools of poetry, Blizzard's essays hover at the crossroads, in the spaces where art, science, and spirit collide. The intimate becomes universal, the questions are all relevant, and the answers of our times require a sleight of hand - the holding of simultaneous and overlapping worlds.

By: Gloria Blizzard
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 297g
ISBN: 9781459752801
ISBN 10: 1459752805
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 09 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part I Ghost Black Cake Buddhism Turtle Soup The Yellow Dress Hummingbird Ancestor Repeat Part II Trains and Laundromats Ether The Mathematics of Rage Passage Part III Music Lessons Trifecta Water Joy The Year of Jazz Notes Bibliography

Gloria Blizzard is an award-winning writer and poet, and a Black Canadian woman of multiple heritages. Her work explores spaces where music, dance, spirit, and culture collide. She lives in Toronto.

Reviews for Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas: Essays

Mesmerizing, lyrical, and cadenced, Gloria Blizzard’s essays move like music. * Ayelet Tsabari, author of The Art of Leaving * Gloria effortlessly weaves elements of her life — its challenges and its gifts — into contemporary conversations about identity, feminism, the diaspora, art, and belonging. * Lorri Neilsen Glenn, author of The Old Man in Her Arms *