Sounding differences : conversations with seventeen Canadian women writers
Sounding differences : conversations with seventeen Canadian women writers
/ [interviewed by] Janice Williamson
- xx, 370 pages : portraits
Jeannette Armstrong
Text: 'Grief Is Not the Activity That Heals'
Interview: 'What I intended was to connect...and it's happened.'
Di Brandt
Text: 'nonresistance or, love Mennonite style'
Interview: 1 'The sadness in this book is that I'm reaching for this story...'
Interview: 2 'that questioning self'
Nicole Brossard
Text: 'Certain Words,'
Interview: 'Before I became a feminist, I suppose I was an angel, a poet, a revolutionary...'
Elly Danica
Text: Excerpt from Don't: A Woman's Word
Interview: 1 'an enormous risk, but it's got to be done'
Interview: 2 '...once I remembered...all of the rest of it was there.' Kristjana Gunnars
Text: Excerpt from The Prowler
Interview: 'In that gap where one searches, the muse hangs around...' Claire Harris
Text: 'A Question of Joy'
Interview: 'I dreamt of a new naming...' Smaro Kamboureli and Lola Lemire Tostevin
Text: Smaro Kamboureli, fragments from 'Various Blues'
Interview: 'where the imaginary takes over' Joy Kogawa
Text: Excerpts from Obasan
Interview: 'In writing I keep breathing, I keep living...' Lee Maracle
Text: Excerpt from 'Maggie'
Interview: 'an infinite number of pathways to the centre of the circle' Daphne Marlatt
Text: 'There is a door'
Interview: 'When we change language...' Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland
Interview: 'in companionship with another voice' Erin Moure
Text: 'Song of a Murmur'
Interview: 'my existence whenever I start to think' M. Nourbese Philip
Text: 'Discourse on the Logic of Language'
Interview: 'writing a memory of losing that place' Gail Scott
Text: Excerpt from Heroine
Interview: 1 'a very rhythmic and almost conversational surface'
Interview: 2 'Writing starts in trying to create a text that listens.' Lola Lemire Tostevin
Text: Excerpt from Frog Moon
Interview: 'inventing ourselves on the page' Bronwen Wallace
Text: 'Koko'
Interview: '...I couldn't separate the landscape from how I see my poems moving.' Betsy Warland
Text: Excerpt from Proper Deafinitions
Interview: 'a language that holds us' Phyllis Webb
Text: 'Performance'
Interview: 'Read the poems, read the poems. All right?'
0802068081
Canadian literature--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Feminism and literature--Canada--20th century--History
810.809287
Jeannette Armstrong
Text: 'Grief Is Not the Activity That Heals'
Interview: 'What I intended was to connect...and it's happened.'
Di Brandt
Text: 'nonresistance or, love Mennonite style'
Interview: 1 'The sadness in this book is that I'm reaching for this story...'
Interview: 2 'that questioning self'
Nicole Brossard
Text: 'Certain Words,'
Interview: 'Before I became a feminist, I suppose I was an angel, a poet, a revolutionary...'
Elly Danica
Text: Excerpt from Don't: A Woman's Word
Interview: 1 'an enormous risk, but it's got to be done'
Interview: 2 '...once I remembered...all of the rest of it was there.' Kristjana Gunnars
Text: Excerpt from The Prowler
Interview: 'In that gap where one searches, the muse hangs around...' Claire Harris
Text: 'A Question of Joy'
Interview: 'I dreamt of a new naming...' Smaro Kamboureli and Lola Lemire Tostevin
Text: Smaro Kamboureli, fragments from 'Various Blues'
Interview: 'where the imaginary takes over' Joy Kogawa
Text: Excerpts from Obasan
Interview: 'In writing I keep breathing, I keep living...' Lee Maracle
Text: Excerpt from 'Maggie'
Interview: 'an infinite number of pathways to the centre of the circle' Daphne Marlatt
Text: 'There is a door'
Interview: 'When we change language...' Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland
Interview: 'in companionship with another voice' Erin Moure
Text: 'Song of a Murmur'
Interview: 'my existence whenever I start to think' M. Nourbese Philip
Text: 'Discourse on the Logic of Language'
Interview: 'writing a memory of losing that place' Gail Scott
Text: Excerpt from Heroine
Interview: 1 'a very rhythmic and almost conversational surface'
Interview: 2 'Writing starts in trying to create a text that listens.' Lola Lemire Tostevin
Text: Excerpt from Frog Moon
Interview: 'inventing ourselves on the page' Bronwen Wallace
Text: 'Koko'
Interview: '...I couldn't separate the landscape from how I see my poems moving.' Betsy Warland
Text: Excerpt from Proper Deafinitions
Interview: 'a language that holds us' Phyllis Webb
Text: 'Performance'
Interview: 'Read the poems, read the poems. All right?'
0802068081
Canadian literature--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Feminism and literature--Canada--20th century--History
810.809287