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The vivian poems

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  • Running Time: 01:42 hrs
    Publisher:
    Radiant Press, 2020
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

Details:

  • Author: Rice, Bruce
    Contributor: Prpick, Zoé Beaulieu
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2020
    Summary:

    These poems peel back the layers of suburban life and the American Dream. Vivian Maier was a self-taught street photographer who worked as a nanny for wealthy employers in New York and Chicago. The poet imagines her as a documentarian who is compassionate, abrasive, and meditative, while her subjects provide their own narrative. More than anything, the poems are a response to her work, which is all we have that comes directly from her. It is a deliberate challenge to the "mystery nanny" she is reduced to in much of the constructed narrative of her life.

    Genre:
    Subject(s): Fiction | Poetry
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Radiant Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781989274309
    Collection(s)/Series: Saskatchewan Book Awards 2021