Errabundos / Wanderers

About the Book

Errabundos, Wanderers is divided in four parts: Part 1 “Sitios oníricos, Oneiric Sites (Dream Images); part 2, “Sitios visitados, Visited Sites,” places she visited and worked at, like Somalia; part 3, Laos; Part 4, “¿Adónde me llevas? Where Are You Taking Me?” In the four parts, with varying degrees, she develops the themes of nature degradation, environment, hope, beauty, science. For instance, in the poem “Medusas,” the proliferation of jellyfish due to ocean warming.

About the Author

Maria Giovanna Tomsich was born in Fiume, Italy (until 1945, now Croatia). She immigrated to Canada in 1951. She worked as a lab assistant at the Western branch of the Connaught Laboratories for seven years while taking courses at the same time. After her BA, she changed direction by embarking on an MA in Spanish literature. Thanks to a teaching assistant scholarship, she pursued her PhD at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island). Thanks to yet another scholarship granted by the Canada Council, she was able to conduct research for her doctoral thesis in Spain. All her publications deal with eighteenth-century topics. As in her previous poetry book, Poemario de Spanish bank, she composes her poems in Spanish language, which she uses most frequently, then she translates them in English. Readers interested in poetry may find it intriguing to see how she meets the challenge of poetic expressions in two so different languages.