9781774390092_

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 Geitzlers 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

Its 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 anthropologists 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 Heavens Thieves

In her formidable poetic debut, Kayla Geitzler navigates a world of unregulated overtime and tip skimming aboard the cruise ship Saturnalia. No mere three-hour tour, That Light Feeling Under Your Feet is an unflinching portrait of life at sea, and the discrimination, racism, and misogyny inherent in the tourism industry. Darkly humorous and deftly realized, the poems in That Light Feeling Under Your Feet stick in the mind like endless leviathans harnessing the controlled chaos of the word.
Jim Johnstone, author of The Chemical Life

Like a workaday Virgil, Kayla Geitzler takes us from the upper decks of rum cocktails, jackpot bingo, and conga lines into the underworkings of cruise ships the sale-to-sail palliative powers of simulacrum, the trinket-exhausted ports, and the forced smiles of deck staff under a managers beady gaze. In poem after startling poem, Geitzlers sustained meditation forces our attention back to this absurd microcosm, proving herself a provocative emissary to frantic mass tourism. These imperial floating wedding cakes, she insists, are always ready to blot out the sky, taking those on board with them.
Tammy Armstrong, author of Take Us Quietly

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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!

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

"Its an effective (and affective) look at the unglamorous behind-the-scenes of a (temporary) life at sea.
Breanna Mroczek, Avenue Edmonton

"In her formidable poetic debut, Kayla Geitzler navigates a world of unregulated overtime and tip skimming aboard the cruise ship Saturnalia. No mere three-hour tour, That Light Feeling Under Your Feet is an unflinching portrait of life at sea, and the discrimination, racism, and misogyny inherent in the tourism industry. Darkly humorous and deftly realized, the poems in That Light Feeling Under Your Feet stick in the mind like endless leviathans harnessing the controlled chaos of the word."
Jim Johnstone, author of The Chemical Life

"Like a workaday Virgil, Kayla Geitzler takes us from the upper decks of rum cocktails, jackpot bingo, and conga lines into the underworkings of cruise ships the sale-to-sail palliative powers of simulacrum, the trinket-exhausted ports, and the forced smiles of deck staff under a managers beady gaze. In poem after startling poem, Geitzlers sustained meditation forces our attention back to this absurd microcosm, proving herself a provocative emissary to frantic mass tourism. These imperial floating wedding cakes, she insists, are always ready to blot out the sky, taking those on board with them."
Tammy Armstrong, author of Take Us Quietly

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