Deep Salt Water

by Marianne Apostolides, Catherine Mellinger (Illustrator)

Overview

Deep Salt Water is a stirring memoir about loss and abortion, expressed through the layering of imagery from the ocean. In detail at once sensual and sophisticated, Apostolides unfurls the emotional experience of a love affair and unwanted pregnancy, the abortion itself, and her reconnection with the man seventeen years later—a rekindling of love which stimulates this gentle attempt to come to terms with the abortion and its consequences. Moving from a place of intense intimacy to an outward focus that engages with the broader world, Deep Salt Water discusses abortion in all its complexity, rejecting polarizing rhetoric in favour of the unfathomable truths that women hold in their bodies.

With 9 full colour plates of mixed media collage by Catherine Mellinger.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771662789
Publisher:	Book*hug Press
Publication date:	03/08/2017
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

MARIANNE APOSTOLIDES is a recipient of the Chalmers Arts Fellowship, and the author of six books, including three critically-acclaimed titles: Swim, Voluptuous Pleasure (listed among the Top 100 Books of 2012 by Toronto's The Globe and Mail), and Sophrosyne. Marianne lives in Toronto with her two children.

CATHERINE MELLINGER is a mixed media and analog collage artist whose works find inspiration in the ideas originated by the feminist artists of the Dada period as well as the early Surrealists, lending to the exploration of dichotomy; real and unreal, beauty and trauma. Mellinger's works have been published in literary magazines, and she has been commissioned by musicians, writers and private collectors. She lives in Waterloo, Ontario with her husband and son.