I Used to Live Here

By (author): Amy LeBlanc

The driving impulse of Amy LeBlanc’s new collection of poetry, I used to live here, is an examination of chronic illness, disability, and autoimmunity. The collection also aims to find moments of magic and ritual within the experience of illness and to find new metaphors for illness and autoimmunity that do not rely on militarization, self-cannibalism, or suicide. LeBlanc thinks deeply about autoimmunity and the poetic representations of the body that self-destructs and that cannot recognize itself? specifically, she asks: What does a body feel like when it doesn’t feel like a home? What does it look like when a body self-destructs? How do we write through and about bodily doubt? 

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Amy LeBlanc

Amy LeBlanc holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Calgary where she is currently completing an MA in English Literature and creative writing. She is non-fiction editor at filling station magazine and was Editor-in-Chief of N?D Magazine for two years. Her debut novella Unlocking will be published in the UCalgary Press’ Brave and Brilliant Series in 2022. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Room, Prairie Fire, Contemporary Verse 2, LRC, and EVENT among others. Amy won the 2018 BrainStorm Poetry Contest for her, poem ‘Swell’. Her piece “Redress” was long-listed for Room Magazine‘s 2018 short forms contest. She is the author of two chapbooks, most recently Ladybird, Ladybird published with Anstruther Press.


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Dimensions:

Pages
8.75in * 5.55in *
250.00gr

Published:

April 01, 2025

Publisher:

Porcupine’s Quill

ISBN:

9780889844841

Book Subjects:

POETRY / General

Language:

eng

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