In The Slender Margin - Couverture rigide

Joseph, Eve

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1443426717 ISBN 13 : 9781443426718

Editeur : Patrick Crean Editions, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A journey into the land of death and dying seen through the lens of art and the imagination

Part memoir, part meditation on death itself, In the Slender Margin is an exploration of death from an “insider’s” point of view. Using the threads of her brother’s early death and her twenty years of work at a hospice, Joseph utilizes history, religion, philosophy, literature, personal anecdote, mythology, poetry and pop culture to discern the unknowable and to illuminate her travels through the land of the dying. The book is neither an academic text nor a self-help manual; rather, it is a rumination on death, dying and the mystery that awaits us all.

Rather than relying solely on narrative, In the Slender Margin gains momentum from a buildup of thematic resonances. In the process of thinking deeply about death, Joseph finds the brother she lost as a young girl. She wrote this book as a way to understand what she had seen: the mysterious and the horrendous.

Replete with literary allusions and references ranging from Joan Didion and Susan Sontag to D.H. Lawrence and Voltaire, among many other literary voices, the result is an absorbing and inspired consideration of how we die and how we deal with death.

Biographie de l'auteur :

EVE JOSEPH’s first book of poetry, The Startled Heart, was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. The Secret Signature of Things was also nominated for this prize, as well as the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and the Acorn-Plantos Award. Eve was awarded the 2010 P.K. Page Founders' Award for Poetry. Her non-fiction has been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards. Her essay “Intimate Strangers” was nominated for a National Magazine Award and won both The Malahat Review’s Creative Non-Fiction Prize and the Western Magazine Awards Gold prize (B.C./Yukon). Her work has been published in a number of Canadian and American journals and anthologies. She lives in Victoria, B.C.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Patrick Crean Editions
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1443426717
• ISBN 13: 9781443426718
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224