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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 810.80352042
EAN: 9781550821581
ISBN: 155082158X
Label: Quarry Press
Manufacturer: Quarry Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 109
Publication Date: 1999-01
Publisher: Quarry Press
Studio: Quarry Press
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Siolence is a word coined by Penn Kemp to encapsulate the blending that so often occurs between violence and the silence enabling it. For more than a decade, a group of feminist writers in the League of Canadian Poets, self-dubbed the Feminist Caucus, have been meeting to wrestle with issues of language and gender, to share revelations and convictions and poems, and to reaffirm their place in the community of people who spend much of their lives working to end the violence of language and the silencing of voices that corrupt our society. Siolence is an anthology of the best position papers, manifestos, rants, essays, and poems written on women, violence, and silence during one of the most interesting eras in the history of feminism.
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"In order to combat silence, we all must first combat the silences we impose on ourselves."
Penn Kemp writes "Every witness leaves gaps, deliberate or not. A biographer learns to listen between the words for the potent silences . . . the work is to decipher that anxiety, not to smooth it over too soon or to bury it. Robert Bly describes a similar gap in his book, appropriately called The Silence of Snowy Fields, as the denial of his father's drinking . . . In the late seventies I wrote ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 810.80352042
EAN: 9781550821581
ISBN: 155082158X
Label: Quarry Press
Manufacturer: Quarry Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 109
Publication Date: 1999-01
Publisher: Quarry Press
Studio: Quarry Press