| Leak Contributor(s): Hargreaves, Kate (Author) |
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ISBN: 1771660562 ISBN-13: 9781771660563 Publisher: Book*hug Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 7.9" (0.35 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Welcome to Kate Hargreaves' Leak, where the relationship between language and the body lives in the bumps and bruises that in turn become new ways of understanding the borders and leaks of our everyday existence. In Leak, bodies lose pieces and fall apart, while words slip out of place and letters drop away. Emergency room signage becomes incomprehensible, the census requests bodily measurements, a cyclist confuses oil with her own blood. This visceral deconstruction of the body and its multiple representations tests the boundaries of body politics -- pathologically, emotionally, and lyrically. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hargreaves, Kate: - Kate Hargreaves is a poet, fiction writer, book designer and roller derby skater. Her first book, Talking Derby: Stories from a Life on Eight Wheels (2012), is a collection of short prose vignettes inspired by playing women's flattrack roller derby. Hargreaves' poetry has been published in literary journals across North America, including Descant, filling Station, The Puritan, Drunken Boat, The Antigonish Review, Canada and Beyond, Carousel, and Rampike, and has also appeared in the anthologies Whisky Sour City (2012) and Detours (2012), and the Windsor Review's "Best Writers Under 35" issue. Hargreaves was the recipient of a Windsor Endowment for the Arts emerging Literary Artist award in 2011 and a Governor General's Gold Medal in Graduate Studies at the University of Windsor in 2012, where she obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English & Creative Writing. Kate grew up in Amherstburg, Ontario, but now lives in Windsor, where she works as a publishing assistant and book designer at Biblioasis. |