The Bosun Chair

Biography & Memoir, Literary, Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Cover of the book The Bosun Chair by Jennifer Bowering Delisle, NeWest Press
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Author: Jennifer Bowering Delisle ISBN: 9781926455884
Publisher: NeWest Press Publication: April 15, 2017
Imprint: NeWest Press Language: English
Author: Jennifer Bowering Delisle
ISBN: 9781926455884
Publisher: NeWest Press
Publication: April 15, 2017
Imprint: NeWest Press
Language: English

Part family memoir, part poetry, part love letter to Newfoundland and its people, The Bosun Chair is a lyrical exploration of how we are fortified by the places of our foremothers and forefathers and by how they endured.

Like 'ballycater,' the ice that gathers in harbours along the coast, Jennifer Bowering Delisle gathers fragments of history, family lore, and poetry—both her own and that of her great-grandparents—to tell stories of shipwrecks, war, resettlement, and men and women's labour in early twentieth-century Newfoundland. With deftness and haunting imagery, The Bosun Chair reveals the inherent gaps in ancestral history and the drive to understand a story that can never fully be told.

Praise for The Bosun Chair

"[T]he author’s delicate language will have you feeling comfortable as you swing from moment to moment and piece together her myriad stories."
~ WHERE Edmonton

"Poetic linking throughout the book ... reminds us of the gaps in our own identity. In the end, Delisle helps us realize that construction of identity is an ongoing, slippery and deliberate journey."
~ Elizabeth Johnston, Atlantic Books Today

"The Bosun Chair, with its transparency of process and its artful blend of reportage, poetry, and prose, shines a light on migration’s dark sea."
~ Susan Olding, The Malahat Review

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Part family memoir, part poetry, part love letter to Newfoundland and its people, The Bosun Chair is a lyrical exploration of how we are fortified by the places of our foremothers and forefathers and by how they endured.

Like 'ballycater,' the ice that gathers in harbours along the coast, Jennifer Bowering Delisle gathers fragments of history, family lore, and poetry—both her own and that of her great-grandparents—to tell stories of shipwrecks, war, resettlement, and men and women's labour in early twentieth-century Newfoundland. With deftness and haunting imagery, The Bosun Chair reveals the inherent gaps in ancestral history and the drive to understand a story that can never fully be told.

Praise for The Bosun Chair

"[T]he author’s delicate language will have you feeling comfortable as you swing from moment to moment and piece together her myriad stories."
~ WHERE Edmonton

"Poetic linking throughout the book ... reminds us of the gaps in our own identity. In the end, Delisle helps us realize that construction of identity is an ongoing, slippery and deliberate journey."
~ Elizabeth Johnston, Atlantic Books Today

"The Bosun Chair, with its transparency of process and its artful blend of reportage, poetry, and prose, shines a light on migration’s dark sea."
~ Susan Olding, The Malahat Review

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