The Canadian Girl

By (author): Shannon Stewart

“Many of Stewart’s poems honour the ordinary and domestic; others get dressed up and strut their stuff. The female body and mind, from adolescence to maturity, bask in their glory, seducing the reader from cover to cover.”
–Lorna Crozier

In this first poetry collection, Shannon Stewart spans a century of female experience, from an 1890s Victorian housekeeping “how to” to her own journey into womanhood. From corsets to chewing gum, hysteric convulsions to conception, Stewart explores body, soul and the daily task of living with wisdom and wit. Whether examining a bizarre sexual ritual of puberty or a Victorian woman’s penchant for separating male and female authors on her bookshelf, Stewart’s is a real-life poetics that is earthy and expressive, astute and funny.

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Shannon Stewart

Shannon Stewart was born in Ottawa in 1966 and raised in British Columbia. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and her poems have been published in Breathing Fire: Canada’s New Poets, The Dominion of Love and numerous literary magazines. Stewart lives in Vancouver, where she has served as poetry editor for PRISM International and taught Creative Writing and English as a Second Language.


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“Many of Stewart’s poems honour the ordinary and domestic; others get dressed up and strut their stuff. The female body and mind, from adolescence to maturity, bask in their glory, seducing the reader from cover to cover.”
–Lorna Crozier

In this first poetry collection, Shannon Stewart spans a century of female experience, from an 1890s Victorian housekeeping “how to” to her own journey into womanhood. From corsets to chewing gum, hysteric convulsions to conception, Stewart explores body, soul and the daily task of living with wisdom and wit. Whether examining a bizarre sexual ritual of puberty or a Victorian woman’s penchant for separating male and female authors on her bookshelf, Stewart’s is a real-life poetics that is earthy and expressive, astute and funny.

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Dimensions:

80 Pages
9in * 6in * 0.32in
0.5lb

Published:

January 01, 1998

Publisher:

Nightwood Editions

ISBN:

9780889711693

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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