Blood Orange ponders the resilience of the human spirit as it explores the meaning of home (Heimat) and homelessness, and circles themes such as forced displacement and loss. Memory is interrogated, but never completely trusted as the poems shift back and forth between post-war Poland and western Canada, the past and present day and other unnameable time frames. Life and death, eros and thantos intermingle in a world in which a mother braids her child's hair with hands of smoke and where there is nowhere to sit comfortably or feel safe, a world in which one is forever a refugee and without legitimate citizenship. (From Frontenac House)