Published in 1992 by Rowan Books, Edmonton 

ISBN 1-895836-01-8

About this book

Time as physics, time as geometry, time as housecleaning. Time as the experience of emigration and displacement. Time as politics. Time as cleaning out the fridge.

In this first collection of poems, many of Alice Major’s poetic concerns are well established, including her marriage of scientific thought with daily life. The centre sequence, Words Selected and Imposed on Time, is a meditation on the nature of time as a fourth ‘dimension’ for human experience, first inspired by Nelson Mandela’s release from prison.

Experience a poem

Time Travel is a One-way Street – performed with Nora Bumanis

Text Poem – Transformations II

Reviews

In Time Travels Light, Major explores the nature of time and memory, and examines the various transformations that occur in the lives of individuals and families with humour, feeling and depth. Her images are precise and memorable.

- Calgary Herald, 1993

With deceptive simplicity, Major aligns herself with the elements. She manages to call up electromagnetism, Fibonacci numbers, relativity and entangle them in our day to day world, recasting much of ordinary experience at a mythological level.

- Poetry Canada, Vol. 14, No.1 

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