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Fiction Anthologies (multiple Authors)

Untying The Apron

Daughters Remember Mothers of The 1950s

edited by Lorri Neilsen Glenn

Publisher
Guernica Editions
Initial publish date
Mar 2013
Category
Anthologies (multiple authors), Biographical, Contemporary Women
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550717297
    Publish Date
    Mar 2013
    List Price
    $25.00

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Description

Mothers of the 1950s were wasp-waisted, dutiful, serene, and tied to the kitchen with apron strings. Or so we thought. This collection of searing and startling poetry and prose unties the stereotype and reveals women who were strong, wild, talented, wise, mad, creative, desperate, angry, courageous, bitter, tenacious, reckless and beautiful, sometimes all at once. The contributors include multi-award-winning poets, novelists, and essayists, as well as compelling new literary voices.

About the author

Lorri Neilsen Glenn's most recent book is Following the River: Traces of Red River Women (Wolsak and Wynn), an award-winning work about her Ininiwak and Métis grandmothers and their contemporaries. Lorri is the author and contributing editor of fourteen titles of nonfiction and poetry, former Halifax Poet Laureate, and Professor Emerita at Mount Saint Vincent University. An award-winning teacher and researcher, Lorri has served on juries for the Canada Council, CBC literary awards and numerous provincial and national book prizes. Neilsen Glenn's poetry has been adapted several times for libretti and her essays and poems appear in numerous anthologies and literary journals.? She was a recipient of Halifax's Women of Excellence award, has had appointments as Writer in Residence across Canada and served as President of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. Lorri has mentored writers across Canada and in Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Greece and Chile.

She divides her time between Halifax and Rose Bay, Nova Scotia.

Lorri Neilsen Glenn's profile page

Editorial Reviews

Reading the anthology is a consciousness-raising exercise. The details make the writing good and true. The commonalities of experience make it political.

Malahat Review