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My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems

Amber Dawn

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English
Arsenal Pulp Press
01 October 2020
Inher novels, poetry, and prose, Amber Dawn has written eloquently on queer femmesexuality, individual and systemic trauma, and sex work justice, themes drawnfrom her own lived experience and revealed most notably in her award-winning memoirHow Poetry Saved My Life.

In this, her second poetry collection, Amber Dawn takes stock of the costs of coming out on the page ina heartrendingly honest and intimate investigation of the toll that artmakingtakes on artists. These long poems offer difficult truths within theirintricate narratives that are alternately incendiary, tender, and rapturous.

In a cultural era whenintersectional and marginalized writers are topping bestseller lists, Amber Dawninvites her readers to take an unflinching look at we expect from writers, and from each other.

Includes a foreword by writer Doretta Lau (HowDoes a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?).
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Imprint:   Arsenal Pulp Press
Country of Publication:   Canada
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 152mm, 
ISBN:   9781551527932
ISBN 10:   1551527936
Pages:   128
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Amber Dawn is a poet, memoirist and novelist. She is the author of the novels Sub Rosa (Lambda Literary Award winner) and Sodom Road Exit, the Vancouver Book award-winning memoir How Poetry Saved My Life, and the BC Book Prize-nominated poetry collection Where the words end and my body begins. She is also the editor or co-editor of numerous anthologies, including Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poems. She teaches creative writing at Douglas College.

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