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Dead Can't Dance, The

by (author) Pam Calabrese MacLean

Publisher
Ronsdale Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2009
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781553800699
    Publish Date
    Mar 2009
    List Price
    $15.95

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With a mother's touch, a lover's touch and the sure hand of an undertaker, Pam Calabrese MacLean compels the reader to take a dangerous look behind every façade, even though we will long to look away. Her women are fierce with their men, protective of their children and abrupt with the world. She observes the minutiae of life with an eye of appreciation, and looks at the grandeur with suspicion.

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Contributor Notes

Pam Calabrese MacLean lives in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where she works in the Library of St. Francis Xavier University. She is a mother, a grandmother, a poet and a playwright. Her first book of poetry, Twenty-four Names for Mother, was published in 2006 by The Paper Journey Press (Wake Forest, NC). Her flash fiction has appeared in two US anthologies: Women Behaving Badly, 2004, and Blink, 2006.