Woman Arborescent
- Publisher
- Ekstasis Editions
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2005
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894800617
- Publish Date
- Jan 2005
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
In Woman Arborescent sensual, expressive images lead us into symbolic worlds rich with the pains and joys of being; there magic mingles with the voices of trees, water and wind.
About the author
Annick Perrot-Bishop is a Francophone Canadian author of multicultural background (Vietnamese, Indian and French). A resident of St. John’s, Newfoundland, she has published some sixty short stories and translations in literary journals and anthologies as well as five books. Her highly-acclaimed poetry collection Femme au profil d’arbre (Éditions David) was published by Ekstasis Editions in Neil Bishop’s English translation as Woman Arborescent (2005). In Long, Secret Rivers is Neil Bishop’s translation of Annick Perrot-Bishop’s En longues rivières cachées (Eds. David), a translation for which he won First Prize in the prestigious John Dryden Translation Competition (2008), organized by the British Comparative Literature Association and the British Centre for Literary Translation