How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (621 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1551525003 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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She won the Writers' Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilivie Prize for emerging LGBT writers in 2012. While the plot of the book was wildly imaginative, it was also based on the author's own experience as a sex worker in the 1990s and early 2000s, and on her coming out as lesbian.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. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.. City of Vancouver Book Award winnerAs raw and fiery as its author, How Poetry Saved My Life is a powerful account of survival and the transfo
How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir--Required Reading Call yourself a feminist? Then you must read Amber Dawn's new book, How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir. Scratch that. Call yourself a human? Read this book. Immediately. Amber Dawn has written a collection of wry, witty and heartbreaking observations on gender, butch-femme relations, desire and capitalism. Punctuated with finely-wrought poems that illuminate her memoir, How Poetry Saved My Life is full of unexpected gems, both in the muscle of the language and the beauty of the truths she is unafraid t. loved it The grass harp it's harrowing epic tender brutal. she's an excellent writer and it took me to a world i didn't know about. i enjoyed the prose pieces more than the poetry, but just because i was so hungry for details. it's written in a kind a episodic way, much like sex work itself. powerful to read, almost too painful at times, but real and beautiful.. Crisis and Creativity How Poetry Saved My Life is a gorgeous example of an emotional journey told in prose and various forms of poetry. Amber Dawn's memoir is an invitation to visit places that "have been made silent, small or wounded." For this Vancouver, British Columbia author, it is "the terrain of sex work, queer identity, and survivor pride."Dawn invites readers to create a final section of How Poetry Saved My Life, exploring their own stories of survival and finding community. She has, in fact, scattered such challenges throug
"Amber Dawn’s voice is heartbreakingly sensitive, yet unabashed. It is tender and biting, gorgeous and courageous, even heroic and, above all, it is hers." —National Post"How Poetry Saved My Life is every bit as forthright as Amber Dawn's novel Sub Rosa, with the bonus of being a subtly pitched call to arms." —The Globe and Mail. The empowerment and solace she found in the poetry that saved her life is contagious." GO Magazine"An emotionally difficult but revealing read about the sex industry and the lifestyle of sex workers in which the author encourages more frankness and discussion in the future." Library Journal"Defiant and proud, Amber Dawn's memoir categorically refuses silence, daring to imagine a