Naming

Elizabeth Kouhi

A PECULIAR NORTHNESS informs these poems about Elizabeth Kouhi's own life as a Canadian-born daughter of Finnish immigrants. Ten years have past since Kouhi published her first volume of poems for adults—Round Trip Home—ten years have past in which she concentrated on writing for children. In Naming, Kouhi reconsiders not only her childhood search but an entire community's collective struggle to find Home.

We are introduced to pioneers who talk at kitchen tables about coffee and bread, weddings and dances, coffins and funerals. We become tourists, gliding

         'like skittering waterbugs


         over still water,


         occasionally pulled 


         by tag-ends of history.'

Elizabeth Kouhi

Author

Elizabeth Kouhi is of Finnish ancestry and lives in Thunder Bay, Ontario. A retired school teacher, she still regularly visits elementary schools to enchant young children with samples of her northern verse.

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