Hannus / Rachel Lebowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lebowitz, Rachel, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hannus, Ida, 1953--Poetry.

Hannus, Ida.

Suffragists--Canada--Poetry.

Suffragists.

Canada.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

170 pages : illustrations, portraits, genealogical table ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Pedlar Press, [2006]

Summary:

You're outside, the white of the page. You could be here, anywhere. The way cities and countries turn to water, the way yolk spreads; you're shedding letters, you're spinning into finches and rivers. You're like the necklace in your photograph, the one that was drawn in after, absent and seen. She was someone else, and that means you're not standing with rope in your hands, the cow eating her shadow, the bell that not ringing. It means I lost you again, the spinning and all the papers burnt in the fire. I could dig you up, hold your bones to the light, place them on earth, but dust motes, dandelion fluff, the light and the white pages, a wild girl running, cartwheels, somersaults across grass, a flute and the ocean retreating, rushing, retreating - underneath ash, there could be anything.

Hannus is a creative biography of Ida Hannus, a Finnish-Canadian suffragist and socialist living in Vancouver and in the BC Finnish commune Sointula through the turn of the century to the Cold War. Approached from different angles, employing a collage of techniques, Hannus is a constantly shifting - and consistently engaging - narrative that raises questions about the reliability of history and biography.

Contents:

Selective Family Tree 10

1910 - 1905

Utterly Strange Doors 19

Place of Harmony 27

1905 - 1927

Peippo 63

Strom 97

1931 - 1953

The Dirty Thirties 117

We Came to a Great War 125

This Time of Day 151.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1897141114

9781897141113

OCLC:

69186629