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In these poems, the exotic includes not only a world of Bedouin and camels, djinn and ghouls, but also the internal territory of the narrator himself, who alternately feels "like an ambassador of sorts, / albeit penned in tourist class" and a "post-imperial naïf / in metaphorical Bermuda shorts." Canaday offers here a complex meditation on the inner and outer nature of journeys and confronts the powerful recognition that the sense of the foreign arises through an inevitable encounter with the self.
In the midst of this richly textured palimpsest of an alien land, the spirits of the Western poetic tradition--Dante, Blake, Whitman, Dickinson, Bishop--also hover. Confident in both lyric and narrative modes, including blank verse, free verse, sonnet, terza rima, and ghazal, Canaday's poems create a stunning landscape of words, an invisible world of discovery, memory, and sensation: "Lost in this Persian Gulf / of the mind, this poem, my heart's Baghdad. / The land's alive in me. I can't let go."
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