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Confessions of a Fertility Expert

by (author) Priscila Uppal

Publisher
Exile Editions
Initial publish date
Sep 1999
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550965506
    Publish Date
    Sep 1999
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

All day long, a male gynecologist surrounds himself with patients trying to get pregnant. All of this talk about creating new life only makes him more concerned about his failure to create life. In Confessions of a Fertility Expert, Priscila Uppal presents a series of poetry that examines this complex character with great passion and empathy.

About the author

Dr. Priscila Uppal is a Toronto poet, fiction writer and York University Professor. Among her publications are nine collections of poetry, most recently, Ontological Necessities (2006; shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize), Traumatology (2010), Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998-2010 (Bloodaxe Books, U.K.), and Winter Sport: Poems and Summer Sport: Poems; the critically-acclaimed novels The Divine Economy of Salvation (2002) and To Whom It May Concern (2009); the study We Are What We Mourn: The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy (2009), and the memoir Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother (2013; shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize and the Governor General's Award). Her work has been published internationally and translated into Croatian, Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, Korean and Latvian. She was the first-ever poet-in-residence for Canadian Athletes Now during the 2010 Vancouver and 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic games as well as the Roger's Cup Tennis Tournament in 2011. Six Essential Questions, her first play, had its World Premiere as part of the Factory Theatre 2013-2014 season, and will be published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2015. Time Out London recently dubbed her ÒCanada's coolest poet.' For more information visit priscilauppal.ca

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