Where the words end and my body begins

by Amber Dawn

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781551525839
Publisher:	Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited
Publication date:	04/21/2015
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.40(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

04/15/2015
Dawn's Vancouver Book Award-winning How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir and Lambda Literary Award-winning first novel, Sub Rosa, build naturally to this autobiographical first collection. In your face yet tightly, beautifully crafted, it uses the glosa, a 15th-century Spanish form, as it moves through hard-bitten high school years ("our after-school program was Alcoholics Anonymous"), depression, stripping and hustling, sex and sexuality, to tough love with tough women and a deep relationship with queer writers from Gertrude Stein to Adrienne Rich. A bravura performance—and insightful if scary reading for poetry lovers and more.

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