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Sounding differences : conversations with seventeen Canadian women writers / [interviewed by] Janice Williamson

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [1993]Description: xx, 370 pages : portraitsContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0802068081
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.809287
Contents:
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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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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