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Poetry Women Authors

Put Your Hand in Mine

by (author) Elaine Woo

Publisher
Signature Editions
Initial publish date
Jul 2022
Category
Women Authors, Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781773240473
    Publish Date
    Apr 2019
    List Price
    $17.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781773241104
    Publish Date
    Jul 2022
    List Price
    $9.99

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Description

This is a book of the inner sea. Language, concept, and form alternate holding the depths. That broken diamond of sun on rough waters: she speaks egalitarian. That cool glass of viridian water just within reach of the surface: water daemons flit through meaning. Obeying the dictates of water, Put Your Hand in Mine guides us through a deep love of the world and all beings in it. It matters not, the pain, nor the broken flippers, nor the sting in old wounds. Reading this is a cleansing, a claim of survival against iron pleats of loneliness.

About the author

Elaine Woo is a poet, artist, and librettist. Her second poetry collection, Put Your Hand in Mine (Signature Editions, 2019), follows her debut book, Cycling with the Dragon (Nightwood Editions, 2014). Her work appears in Elephant JournalEVENTPrism InternationalGrainARCcarte blancheOtolithsS/tick and h&. Also, she is a contributor to the anthologies, Veils, Halos, & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression & Empowerment of Women, Shy, V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and The Enpipe Line: 70,000+ kilometres of poetry written in resistance to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines proposal. Elaine's art song collaboration with Daniel Marshall, "Night-time Symphony," won a Boston Metro Opera festival prize, 2013. Born in Saskatchewan, she resides on British Columbia's west coast.

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