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The Lost Coyote

by John P. Portelli
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798233168109
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Sulfur Editions, Horizons
  • Publisher Imprint: Sulfur Editions, Horizons
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 120
  • Original Price: GBP 6.49
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 173 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

John P. Portelli's The Lost Coyote is a profound meditation on dislocation as a metaphysical state, an unflinching document of the human spirit's endurance amid catastrophic temporal and geographic rupture. This collection transcends mere memoir or political commentary, operating instead as a rigorous philosophical inquiry into the dialectic of belonging and exile, where the concept of "home" is eternally reduced to the "in-between".

Portelli employs a stark, almost cinematic lyricism to expose the scars of history, weaving personal memory-fragments of past loves, Mediterranean seascapes, and domestic moments -into the massive, impersonal horror of geopolitical violence. His poetry performs a constant deconstruction of time, where "yesteryear" and the present are fused by perpetual trauma. The clock face-a recurring visual and thematic motif -serves not as a measure of linear progress, but as a circular witness to a history that ceaselessly repeats its atrocities. The titular "lost coyote" is the ultimate symbol of the alienated subject: an existence "unnoticed", howling at a universe that remains taciturn. Love, when it appears, is framed by its own futility and transience, a brief "fictitious embrace" or a fragile desire caged by a world that demands a "perfect silence". This is a necessary, formidable work that establishes Portelli as a major voice charting the enduring sorrow and moral complexity of a globalized, yet fragmented, world.

Portelli, John P.: -

John Peter Portelli (MALTA )

John P. Portelli is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto (OISE) and an accomplished poet and fiction writer from Malta, residing in both Canada and Malta. He is also a poet and novelist

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