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Mind Your Eyes

by (author) Marian Frances White

Publisher
Breakwater Books Ltd.
Initial publish date
Jun 2003
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894294607
    Publish Date
    Jun 2003
    List Price
    $3.00

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Description

Mind Your Eyes is Marian Frances White's second book of poetry. Through herdirect yet subtle voice that is carved from the elemental longing of life inNewfoundland, White takes us on a journey through the secrets of herancestral survival, to travels that conjure up the beauty of a Jamaicannight, or a communion with the Greed gods and goddesses. In Mind Your Eyesthere is an underlying current of belonging to a global community, one wherea poem can take us on an encounter with forbidden love and back to thewatchful eye of a lover. In the three sections of Mind Your Eyes, there isroom for readers to move in, get comfortable, and make themselves at home.

About the author

Marian Frances White is a writer who has published in many different genres. Her published works include ten editions of A Woman's Almanac, featuring Newfoundland and Labrador Women (1987-1991), and Voices of Atlantic Canadian Women (1992-1996). In 1997 a collection of Almanac interviews was published in The Finest Kind, a Compendium of Almanac Stories. In 1994 White published the biographical book Not A Still Life, the art and writings of artist Rae Perlin. In 1995 she published a History of Newfoundland and Labrador with Grolier Ltd., as part of their Canadian series on the provinces. In 1996 it was translated into French.In 1997 White published her first book of poetry, Skinny Dipping. George Elliott Clarke wrote in the Halifax Chronicle Herald: AForget Toronto, St. John=s rules English Canadian poetry@. In 2000, White was named Artist of the Year by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council. White=s second book of poetry, Mind Your Eyes, was released by Killick Press in 2003. In 2005 with her partner Beni Malone, she co-wrote a children's book, The Sights Before Christmas. White is currently working on a sensual feast of a novel, Ah Paris! set in the 1960's and based in Newfoundland and Paris, France.Marian White also has three films to her credit: The Untold Story of the Suffragists of Newfoundland (1999); in 2002 she wrote and directed the documentary Fool Proof, a film which takes a light-hearted look at the art and craft of clown and circus life, and in 2005 she co-produced Stealing Mary, a documentary about the Beothuk native peoples of Newfoundland.

 

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