Crow Said Poetry - That Light Feeling Under Your Feet

Finalist for The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize at the New Brunswick Book Awards! Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry at the 2019 Alberta Book Publishing Awards! That Light Feeling Under Your Feet plunges headfirst into the surreal and slogging world of cruise ship workers. These masterfully crafted poems challenge perpetuating colonial and class relations, as well as the hedonistic lifestyle attributed to the employees of these floating resorts. Kayla Geitzler’s debut collection interprets isolation, alienation, racism, and assimilation into the margins as inevitable consequences for the seafaring workforce of the most profitable sector of the tourism industry. Exploring the liminal space between labour and leisure, the poems in That Light Feeling Under Your Feet are at once buoyant and weighty, with language that cuts like a keel through the sea. Praise for That Light Feeling Under Your Feet: "Some of these poems seem to walk on water, on the froth from a swell where capital meets little human moments, an odd place full of sadness, humour and terror." ~ Symon Jory Stevens-Guille, Parallel Universe: The Poetries of New Brunswick "It's an effective (and affective) look at the unglamorous behind-the-scenes of a (temporary) life at sea.” ~ Breanna Mroczek, Avenue Edmonton “Armed with wit, an anthropologist’s curiosity and a gift-shop service job, Kayla Geitzler charts cruise ship life from below deck (way below) and behind the counter, navigating culturally specific hangover cures and avoiding the sexual advances of the Food and Beverage manager. If David Foster Wallace — with his compassion and writerly acumen — had worked on a cruise instead of taken a cruise, it might have looked like this.” ~ Sue Sinclair, author of Heaven’s Thieves "In her formidable…