Hemisphere of Love

Poetry. Asian American Studies. HEMISPHERE OF LOVE reflects the author's passion and honesty as he delves into the mystery of love and strives to bring order to human experience. In this collection a range of scenes and situations is carefully carved in words and couched in metaphor. Geographical and spiritual boundaries, shifting tonalities and moods carry the reader into Dabydeen's complex universe. Janus-faced, he continually looks forward and backward. Cyril Dabydeen has been called a "gifted Canadian poet" by The Toronto Star. He was born in Guyana, South America, and now lives in Ottawa, where he was where he was the Poet Laureate in 1986-1987.