The Certain Days of Abstinence
- Publisher
- Ekstasis Editions
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1998
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896860404
- Publish Date
- Sep 1998
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
In The Certain Days of Abstinence the poet assumes the voice of a Japanese courtesan of the Tenth Century. While time and differences of culture separate the two writers, the matters of the heart which form their subject matter are eternal.
About the author
Lala Heine-Koehn was born in Poland in 1936. She immigrated to Canada in the late 1950s, living first in Saskatoon and then Victoria, where she and her family currently reside. She has published seven works of poetry, and also continues her passion for watercolours and pen and ink.