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list price: $13.95
edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: Feb 1999
ISBN:9780921870654
publisher:
Ronsdale Press
Description
Using language as exorcism and photographs as a mirror of the shifting unconscious, Florence Treadwell crosses oceans both literal and emotional in Cleaving, her first book of poems. Memories of an elusive father shadow the unfolding love story, haunting the narrator who confuses childhood and adult passion and endows both father and lover with magical, god-like powers, thus allowing them - or her vision of them - to define her.
Contributor Notes
Born and educated in Bordeaux, Florence Treadwell came to Canada at the age of 25, married, settled in Peterborough, Ontario, and started to write the year following the birth of her fourth child. Her poems and photographs have been published in The Canadian Forum, Descant, Event, Grain, Poetry Canada, Pottersfield Portfolio and Prairie Fire. She returns to France every summer to photograph sand dunes and apocalyptic Atlantic landscapes. She teaches French at Trent University.
