Dowager Empress
Subtitle: Poems of Adele Wiseman
Publisher: Inanna Publications & Education, Incorporated
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9781771336895
Description: "Adele Wiseman, lifelong writing friend of Margaret Laurence, is best know for her novels, The Sacrifice, winner of the Governor-General's Award in 1956, and Crackpot, Winner of the Canadian Booksellers Association Award in 1974. She also wrote essays, plays, and children's books. Her poetry, the work of the last ten years of her life, and mostly unpublished, ranges in form from haiku to sonnets to subversive feminist epic; in content from poems about poetry ("Instructions for Poems in Progress"), to love poems ("In Our Play), to nature poems ("Mysteries of Flight"), to family poems, and to political poems, including "The Dowager Empress Suite." This is Adele Wiseman writing in her most personal voice. The Dowager Empress: Selected Poems by Adele Wiseman rounds out our knowledge of a major Canadian writer."--