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    Tourist
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    Tourist

    By Tak Erzinger

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    In her collection Tourist, TAK Erzinger invites us on a journey. It's a deeply personal one: abandonment, discovery, loss and acceptance vie for space on the page.  With the help of winged messengers and flora and fauna that creeps, winds and demands we engage, Erzinger presents otherness and connectedness. She leads us through the flux of the human experience with powerful layers of imagery from the natural world.
    Revelations are made in the middle of the night, during a pandemic, in the heart of the forest, at the seaside and in food, snapshots of past and present. Through the wonder and surprise of nature, the search for identity is explored, surrendering to what cannot be changed and confronting the mercurial temperament of relationships and how they are perceived, one poem at a time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSea Crow Press
    Release dateApr 7, 2023
    ISBN9798986567662
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      Tourist - Tak Erzinger

      Living in a Big Top

      I was raised as a spectator. Taught to look with eyes wide open and a mouth shut closed, a spectre haunting their escapades.

      They came in droves in summer. A caravan of exotic animals.

      Their foreign tongues licked at my ears and swallowed up my voice.

      They pitched camp in every room, our house became a big top. Clowns with their magic potions created smoke screens, intoxicating the crowd.

      And the performers mastered the tightrope, walking between the tension points of addiction and their children.

      We were the objects that they juggled, like little balls kept in continuous motion, for entertainment and display. Once the performance was over, we were tucked away.

      Looking back, I can see, the format of these spectacles, the circle of that stage, developed me into the ringmaster I am today. Away from the side

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