Bøger af Jane Munro

In this new and masterful collection, Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jane Munro balances her signature themes-dream life, the visual arts, the mysteries of the natural world-with an urgent, more directly political voice. False Creek, Munro's eighth collection of poetry, responds to the discovery of sodded-over graves around residential schools and the elimination of S¿n¿äq¿, home to fifteen thousand S¿wx_wú7mesh before the genocide caused by European diseases. Poems ask What counts as violence? and address erasure. Others reflect on False Creek's reduction to one-fifth its original size, offer a litany of species living there before the destruction of habitat, and observe how it remains a cherished inlet to the heart of Vancouver.As Munro walks around False Creek images arise. In content and form, the book ranges far and wide. While not shirking painful realities, the poems support the human capacity to climb ladders, arrive at fresh points of view, listen to one another, and greet despair with wit, attention, intention-and hope.

When Jane Munro¿s husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer¿s, the Griffin-award-winning poet must chart a path through the depths of grief, learning to live with loss and to take solace and find freedom in the restorative powers of writing.Open Every Window is a genre-bending prose account of the unravelling of a life¿two lives¿when Munro¿s husband, Bob, twenty years her senior, is diagnosed with Alzheimer¿s. Evoking Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden, this memoir charts a path through sorrow¿the pain of seeing a partner age and approach death, the exhaustion of caretaking and the regret in seeing life¿s scope narrow and diminish. Writing with courage and love, Munro grapples with what it means to care for a husband who is gradually but devastatingly deteriorating. Her identity as a writer, yoga practitioner, mother and grandmother is eclipsed by a single word¿caregiver. When a doctor admonishes, ¿What job could be more important than caring for your husband?¿ Munro wonders if the same question would be asked if the roles were reversed and her husband was asked to put aside all his own needs in order to care for a wife with dementia. Ultimately, Munro finds respite in the power of writing, Iyengar yoga and the rhythms of the moon¿not to heal but to allow her to face grief without breaking.A poignant affirmation for anyone who has experienced loss, Open Every Window reveals the pain and power inherent in loving and being loved. Framed with short observations of the moon¿from a new moon in Pune, India, to the following new moon in Vancouver, Canadäthis memoir will entrance with its lyricism and comfort with the writer¿s hard-won warmth and wisdom.

The articulated human figure made of wax or wood has been a common tool in artistic practice since the 16th century. This book locates the artist's mannequin within the context of an expanding universe of effigies, avatars, dolls and shop window dummies.