Who Do I Think I Am? Conversations about Women's Lives in Poetry and Paint |
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| Author:
| Lucas, Rose |
| Artist:
| Monagle, Sharon |
| ISBN: | 978-0-6450449-0-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2020 |
| Publisher: | Liquid Amber Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $25.00 |
Book Description:
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In this project, we - poet Rose Lucas and visual artist Sharon Monagle - have focused on evolving experiences in the lives of women: dealing with our bodies, interacting with others, living in the everyday as well as the imaginative, coping with the vicissitudes of change and loss. Ideas grow out of other ideas - and they are particularly sparked by the shared conversations of friendship. In this exploration of what it might mean to be female - being seen, seeing ourselves - poems have...
More DescriptionIn this project, we - poet Rose Lucas and visual artist Sharon Monagle - have focused on evolving experiences in the lives of women: dealing with our bodies, interacting with others, living in the everyday as well as the imaginative, coping with the vicissitudes of change and loss. Ideas grow out of other ideas - and they are particularly sparked by the shared conversations of friendship. In this exploration of what it might mean to be female - being seen, seeing ourselves - poems have responded explicitly to images, as well as images to poems. We hope that through these collaborative conversations between the languages of words and paint, 'Who do I think I am?' speaks to some of the challenges and richness of women's lives - at least as we have known them.