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Thirsting for Lemonade by Taylor Johnson, Heather is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Thirsting for Lemonade about?

In her third collection of poetry, Heather Taylor Johnson celebrates the liminal spaces between two cultures - the neither here nor there, the neither in nor out. It is indeed a world where 'Home is a relative term'. Thirsting for Lemonade is an affirmation of the migrant's acceptance of never-quite-belonging, and still it is her attempt to forge new paths in foreign, and remembered, territory, where past is always present. These poems recall the many things which get us home - photographs, a common cereal, a record album, a fooseball table. This latest collection is a celebration of 'the things that are especially good / because they cannot last.' Heather Taylor Johnson is the author of two books of poetry: Exit Wounds (2007) and Letters to my Lover from a Small Mountain Town (2012). She was a poetry editor for Wet Ink magazine from 2005-2012 and is currently the poetry editor for Transnational Literature. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide and tutors in Creative Writing at Flinders University. She is an ex-pat hailing from all over the US, now ecstatically relocated near the Port in Adelaide. She lives with her partner Dash, their three young childr

Author

Taylor Johnson, Heather

Publisher

Interactive Press (Interactive Publications)

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781922120359