Dream Elevators: Interviews with Canadian PoetsBeverley Daurio In these remarkable conversations with poets from across Canada, readers will rediscover the wonder that drives the imagination. Angels, cyberspace, and prayer; the sex lives of vegatables, and medieval monks who lived in caves; travels across land and through ideas; all these and more are touched on in this collection. Canada’s most fascinating poets speak about their practice, their writing, and about their lives. |
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... Steveston , How Hug a Stone , and Salvage , and she is also the author of the novels Ana Historic and Taken . She lives in Victoria , B.C. BRENDA CARR : I like to think of your life / text in process as being like Adrienne Rich's a ...
... Steveston , How Hug a Stone , and Salvage , and she is also the author of the novels Ana Historic and Taken . She lives in Victoria , B.C. BRENDA CARR : I like to think of your life / text in process as being like Adrienne Rich's a ...
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... Steveston , we talked about how Steveston's women seemed invisible and I realized that what I wanted to make surface through the obvious ring of that town's fishing activity were the women , the women you didn't see on the streets , you ...
... Steveston , we talked about how Steveston's women seemed invisible and I realized that what I wanted to make surface through the obvious ring of that town's fishing activity were the women , the women you didn't see on the streets , you ...
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... Steveston , trying to shift that ground which is usually background for the figure so it becomes foreground . The shift in values that's involved is also what feminism is about . But to get back to your question about the ...
... Steveston , trying to shift that ground which is usually background for the figure so it becomes foreground . The shift in values that's involved is also what feminism is about . But to get back to your question about the ...
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