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Where it hurts : essays / Sarah de Leeuw.

by De Leeuw, Sarah.

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NeWest Press, 2017.

Loss (Psychology)

Canadian essays -- Women authors

Canadian essays -- 21st century.

9781926455846 (pbk.)

123 pages : portrait ; 22 cm

"A highly-charged collection of personal essays, haunted by loss, evoking turbulent physical and emotional Canadian landscapes. Sarah de Leeuw's creative non-fiction captures strange inconsistencies and aberrations of human behaviour, urging us to be observant and aware. The essays are wide in scope and expose what - and who - goes missing. Sarah de Leeuw reflects on missing geographies and people, including missing women, both those she has known and those whom she will never get to know. The writing is courageously focused, juxtaposing places and things that can be touched and known - emotionally, physically, psychologically - with what has become intangible, unnoticed, or actively ignored. Throughout these essays, de Leeuw's imagistic memories are layered with meaning, providing a survival guide for the present, including a survival that comes with the profound responsibility to bear witness. Sarah de Leeuw is a human geographer, award-winning poet and creative non-fiction writer. She grew up on Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii, then lived in Terrace, B.C. She has worked as a tugboat driver, women's centre coordinator, logging camp cook, and as a journalist and correspondent for Connections Magazine and CBC Radio's B.C. Almanac. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Northern Medical Program at UNBC, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of the 2012 poetry collection Geographies of a Lover"--Provided by publisher.

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