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Red with living poems and art

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  • Publisher:
    Inanna Publications, 2016
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Driedger, Diane
    Date:
    Created
    2016
    Summary:

    In this compelling collection of poems and art, the colour of living is red with excitement, pain, sunsets, blood, and tropical flowers. Along the way, the poet  paints herself into the works of Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet and Maud Lewis. Diane Driedger confronts  the body in two different contexts: through her participation in the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival and through her experience of undergoing breast cancer treatment and of being chronically ill. This is poetry that celebrates the body in all its varied forms.

    Genre:
    Canadian poetry
    Subject(s): Canadian poetry
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Inanna Publications
    Language(s): English
    Collection(s)/Series: Authors with Disabilities Collection