Publisher's Synopsis
After Paradise , Janis Rapoport's fifth book of poetry, straddles the boundaries of the physical and the spiritual, the known and the unknown, while offering a unique investigation of what lies in between.
In these emotionally bold pieces you'll come across fossils and tourists, oysters and parrots, adventurers, angels, saltwater ghosts and the last annual death party.
The voice that celebrates the integrated and comprehensive vision of After Paradise is original, multifaceted and sensitive. The language spoken by that voice is evocative and richly cadenced. Janis Rapoport is a poet who hears with her imagination.
After Paradise is a compelling exploration of the links between what Gwendolyn MacEwen perceived as our "preworlds and afterworlds/and the present myriad inner worlds."
