Where the Words End and My Body Begins
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize finalist
Award-winning novelist and memoirist Amber Dawn reveals a gutsy lyrical sensibility in her debut poetry collection: a collection of glosa poems written as an homage to and an interaction with queer poets such as Gertrude Stein, Christina Rossetti, and Adrienne Rich. By doing so, Dawn delves deeper into the themes of trauma, memory, and unblushing sexuality that define her work.
Amber Dawn is the author of the Lambda Award-winning novel Sub Rosa and the memoir How Poetry Saved My Life (winner of the Vancouver Book Award). Her other awards include the Writers' Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize.
Author: Amber Dawn
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: 04/21/2015
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781551525839
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/2015 pg. 86
About the Author
Amber Dawn is a writer, filmmaker, and performance artist, and the author of the Lambda Award-winning novel Sub Rosa and the memoir How Poetry Saved My Life (winner of the Vancouver Book Award). She is also editor of Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire and co-editor of With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn. She has an MFA in Creative Writing (UBC) and was the 2012 winner of the Writers' Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers.