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?'
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Canadian literature--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc. Feminism and literature--Canada--20th century--History