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How poetry saved my life : a hustler's memoir / Amber Dawn.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.D3876 Z46 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amber Dawn, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amber Dawn, 1974-.
- Amber Dawn.
- Ex-prostitutes--British Columbia--Biography.
- Ex-prostitutes.
- Lesbians--British Columbia--Biography.
- Lesbians.
- Prostitution.
- Lesbians--Identity.
- British Columbia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 156 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating fantasy about a group of magical prostitutes who band together to fend off bad johns in a fantastical underworld, won a Lambda Literary Award in 2011. How Poetry Saved My Life, Amber Dawn's sophomore book, reveals an even more poignant and personal landscape-the terrain of sex work, queer identity, and survivor pride. This story, told in prose and poetry, offers a frank, multifaceted portrait of the author's experiences hustling the streets of Vancouver, and the how those years took away her self-esteem and nearly destroyed her; at the crux of this autobiographical narrative is the tender celebration of poetry and literature, which-as the title suggests-acted as a lifeline during her most pivotal moments. As raw and fiery as its author, How Poetry Saved My Life is a powerful account of survival and the transformative power of literature. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Outside 17
- Oral Tradition 19
- Bikini Kill Lyrics 21
- Melhos Place 31
- What Do Dreams About Flying Mean? 38
- Sex Worker's Feet 40
- Chevron Restroom 1212 East Hastings 41
- Before I Found a Lesbian Feminist Doctor 43
- 1999 45
- Ghetto Feminism 46
- How Poetry Saved My Life 55
- Inside 57
- But I'm in College 59
- Glossy 68
- What's My Mother F***ing Name 70
- Hey F*** Face 76
- Dream Makeover 80
- Sensual Bliss Massage & More 88
- You are Here (A Map) 89
- How to Bury Our Dead 90
- Sculpted From Light 100
- Missing Children 102
- How I Got My Tattoo 104
- Lying is the Work 109
- Inward 121
- There are the Romances that Stick 123
- The One Thing that Could Have Kept Me in Fort Erie, Ontario 125
- To All the Butches I Loved Between 1995 and 2005: An Open Letter About Selling Sex, Selling Out, and Soldiering on 137
- ...And We Did 145
- Self-Addressed Postcards 149.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1551525003
- 9781551525006
- OCLC:
- 812258276
- Publisher Number:
- 99953793142
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