Bøger af Emily Wall

Fig encapsulates the voices of Alice Waters, chef, and food activist through persona poems. It seeks to speak to women who are living with trauma and fear in this current political climate.

Flame, a collection of persona poems in the voice of Mary, mother of Jesus (inthe Christian tradition) and Isa (in the Islamic tradition), is equal parts bodyand spirit, experience and myth. The poems are imaginative, as hope and faith areimaginative: we need to be able to envision a better day even if we cannot see ityet. What thrills me is the restraint, and how each poem quietly--butfully--delivers. Flame is feminist, timely, and timeless. --Maggie Smith, 2018 contest judge, author of Good Bones

Fist comes to us in the voice of artist Georgia O'Keeffe. In this chapbook, O'Keeffe offers readers details of her life-as an artist, as a wife to a man who both helped and harmed her, and as an older woman who found her spiritual home. Each poem is ekphrastic, written in response to pieces of her art; epistolic, in homage to the many letters she wrote during her lifetime; and persona, based on factual events and experiences. Fist is part of a trilogy of chapbooks written in the voices of three powerful and influential women: Mary, mother of Jesus, artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and chef and food activist Alice Waters.

Poet Emily Wall began collecting birth stories after the birth of her third child, Lucy. She realized that women were always quietly sharing their storiesin living rooms with a mug of tea, or whispered at the preschool playground. She saw the intensity with which women listened to each other's stories. They were shared, remembered, retold, but not collected, not treated as the art form they are. Wall began asking for, and collecting birth stories: women sent her emails, handed her their journals, and recorded their own voices. She collected stories from a lesbian couple, a story from an indigenous father who is fighting for his language, and a story from a grandmother. Some of the stories are about difficult and painful births: a woman who had a miscarriage, a woman unable to get pregnant. And some of the stories are beautiful: a birth in water that happened exactly as the mother dreamed it would. Wall has taken these stories and shaped them into poems, and then into this collection, offering the reader a look into the story that women, for centuries, have been quietly sharing with each other.

A collection of poems inspired by Emily Wall's living aboard her Tayana 37 sailboat in Vancouver, British Columbia for four years.