97 Positions of the Heart
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97 Positions of the Heart

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Full Title

97 Positions of the Heart
Author(s)

Jaik Josephson
Edition
ISBN

9781990738029, 9781897289778
Publisher

The Muses’ Company
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Elizabeth Smart, author of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945), has been heralded as a complicated and passion fuelled artist who dared to live in disregard of the burdensome expectations for women in the first half of the last century. 97 Positions of the Heart is a lyrical travelogue through the courageous life of this Canadian writer. Poet Jaik Josephson mines both her biography and literary catalogue to escort the reader into her remarkable world. Each poem charts Smart’s persistent quest to resist the forces that sought to claim and silence her. Text is paired with illustrations by Erin Josephson-Laidlaw to reveal a vast emotional range that meditates upon Elizabeth’s bewildering childhood, a tumultuous romantic pairing with English writer, George Barker, the experience of motherhood and her pursuit of a prosaic language that speaks a truth about life in the social margins.

I am ready for a teetering walk in the dark

on those highest of heels.

I am ready for that merciful car.

Ready to ride to where suckling jazz wails feral,

to where my people smoke and laugh absurd in their feathers and uncaring.

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