The Village of Sliding Time

by David Zieroth

tagged: canadian

Description

In this masterful work by award-winning poet David Zieroth, a man opens his apartment door to find a younger version of himself. The boy becomes his guide on a profound journey from 21st-century urban Vancouver to the 1950s Canadian prairies and back again. Along the way, time slides magically back and forth between the speaker's contemporary existence and his rural childhood life.

Zieroth's language resonates with a strong cadence and rhythm, becoming almost hypnotic as it weaves back and forth through time and around subjects as diverse as the endless dark of the snow and the inexplicable way we learn from the children we once were and the adults we are becoming. The Village of Sliding Time, a marvellously achieved addition to Zieroth's work, is a major contribution to the long poem in Canada.

About the Author

David Zieroth was born in Neepawa, MB, in 1946. His 2009 collection The Fly in Autumn won the Governor General’s Literary Award. Zieroth also won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for How I Joined Humanity at Last (1998). Other publications include the trick of staying and leaving (2023), the bridge from day to night (2018), Albrecht Dürer and me (2014), The Village of Sliding Time (2006), the speculative-fiction work Zoo and Crowbar (2015) and the memoir The Education of Mr. Whippoorwill: A Country Boyhood (2002). His poems have been included in the Best Canadian Poetry series and shortlisted for National Magazine and ReLit awards. He lives in North Vancouver, BC, where he runs The Alfred Gustav Press and produces handmade poetry chapbooks.

Age:: 15
Grade:: 10

Editorial Review

"David Zieroth begins this account with the night of his own conception, continues through early childhood to schooldays and ends with his family's move to BC... [He] skillfully avoids cynicism and nostalgia, engrossing the reader in a memory album that is not narrative, although narratives are implied... Loneliness, family ties, farmyard slaughter and schoolboy pranks; this is a loving but not mawkish reminiscence. The undertone is an awareness of death that insures against the sentimental... It amounts to an engaging and highly readable memoir."
- Hannah Main-van der Kamp, BC Bookworld

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The Village of Sliding Time

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