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Poetry Canadian

The Red Velvet Forest

by (author) Shawna Lemay

Publisher
J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Initial publish date
Apr 2009
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897289402
    Publish Date
    Apr 2009
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

The Red Velvet Forest is a sequence of poems exploring themes of silence and solitude, dream and forest. The poems are organized into three sections, titled, The Circumference, Lost, and Red Velvet Forest. The sections reflect the stages of a personal spiritual quest.

About the author

Shawna Lemay was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. Lemay earned a Bachelor of Arts in Honours English, and has just recently completed her Masters in Englishboth at the University of Alberta. Lemay lives in Edmonton with her husband, Rob Lemay who is a visual artist, and their daughter Chloe. She currently works for the Edmonton Public Library. Other works by Lemay include Still (selfpublished),Against Paradise (McClelland & Stewart), and All the GodSized Fruit (McGillQueens University Press)the winning title of the Gerald Lampert and Stephan G. Stephansson awards.

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