Journey with no maps : a life of P. K. Page / Sandra Djwa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Djwa, Sandra, 1939- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Page, P. K. (Patricia Kathleen), 1916-2010.

Page, P. K.

Poets, Canadian--20th century--Biography.

Poets, Canadian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 p.)

Place of Publication:

Montreal, [Quebećbec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Journey with No Maps is the first biography of P.K. Page, a brilliant twentieth-century poet and a fine artist. The product of over a decade's research and writing, the book follows Page as she becomes one of Canada's best-loved and most influential writers. "A borderline being," as she called herself, she recognized the new choices offered to women by modern life but followed only those related to her quest for self-discovery. Tracing Page's life through two wars, world travels, the rise of modernist and Canadian cultures, and later Sufi study, biographer Sandra Djwa details the people and events that inspired her work. Page's independent spirit propelled her from Canada to England, from work as a radio actress to a scriptwriter for the National Film Board, from an affair with poet F.R. Scott to an enduring marriage with diplomat Arthur Irwin. Page wrote her story in poems, fiction, diaries, librettos, and her visual art. Journey with No Maps reads like a novel, drawing on the poet's voice from interviews, diaries, letters, and writings as well as the voices of her contemporaries. With the vividness of a work of fiction and the thoroughness of scholarly dedication, Djwa illustrates the complexities of Page's private experience while also documenting her public emergence as an internationally known poet. It is both the captivating story of a remarkable woman and a major contribution to the study of Canada's literary and artistic history.

Contents:

Beginnings, 1884-1927

Calgary: Intimations, 1928-1934

England: Discovering Modernism, 1934-1935

Saint John: Apprenticeship, 1935-1941

Montreal: Art and Life, 1941-1944

Halifax and Victoria: Loss, 1944-1946

Ottawa: Recovery, 1946-1953

Australia: The Journey Out, 1953-1956

Brazil: Exotic Worlds, 1957-1959 - Mexico: New Maps, 1960-1964

Victoria: Finding Oneself, 1964-1969

Victoria: Inner Events, 1970-1979

Victoria: Transformations, 1980-1989

Victoria: Acclaim, 1990-1999

Victoria: Endings, 2000-2010.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780773587779

0773587772

OCLC:

818015813