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What is Culverts: Beneath the Narrow Road about?

Culverts, Brenda Schmidt tells us, were first called to her imagination when she was a child. In and around their steel dark openings she played and took risks. In the daring poetry and prose of Culverts beneath the Narrow Road, the risk-taking continues . In her journeys , s he asked people from all walks of life - construction workers, farmers, biologists, writers, musicians - about their culvert stories. Their recollections, both dark and light, brought to light her own, giving another sense of the connections we share and the way stories emerge and flow. The collection is rich with both these imaginings and stories where events like "A bunch of us put a culvert across the road so the cops couldn't get us." or "He crawled in and got stuck. / Couldn't move forward / couldn't move back," set in motion experiences as real to anyone growing up rural as they might imagine. Culverts are real events in peoples' lives, but in Schmidt's world they are also catalysts for transformation in nature, waiting for metaphor to burst from their openings. For Schmidt, the use of culverts can be a source of defense or a source of danger in everyday life, sweeping children into them during

Author

Brenda Schmidt

Publisher

Thistledown Press Limited

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781771871549