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Poetry Canadian

Touching Marble

by (author) Lala Heine-Koehn

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Dec 2011
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897430781
    Publish Date
    Dec 2011
    List Price
    $22.95

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Description

Sensuous, lyrical and voluptuous, the poems of Touching Marble animate the space between art and life. Lala Heine-Koehn breathes new insights into the workings of the imagination, the arousal of fear and desire, and the dangerously porous borderlines between the inanimate and the animate, the object and the subject, and finally, between death and life. She sustains a graceful, sophisticated, and seductive tone in the display of a sensibility that is at once both unique and accessible. Her poems present a stark beauty that arise out of the worlds of art and ritual and into that of flesh, the touch which affirms life. In Touching Marble the statuesque and sculptural flesh is lifted from still dance into dancing life.

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.

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