Driven - Softcover

Struthers, Betsy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887533450 ISBN 13: 9780887533457

Publisher: Black Moss Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Betsy Struthers, a poet, novelist and critic, and former president of the League of Canadian Poets, has written eight books. Driven, her fifth book of poetry, is about being "driven" from one place - physical and metaphorical - to another. It is a book about duality, the being-in-between generations. In the first part, she writes about her father's death and a son's coming of age, with the speaker in the middle of her own life story, caught between what is ripening and what is passing away. In the second part, Struthers writes about "body and soul," and searching for answers in runes and cards. The language has a lyrical simplicity, but at an emotional level that is powerful and touching. Struthers has been a runner-up for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award. She also was short listed for the Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award. Her work has been praised for its narrative clarity, distinctive voice, and erotic play of language.

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About the Author

Betsy Struthers has published eight books of poetry, including Still (Black Moss Press), winner of the 2004 Pat Lowther Memorial Award for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman, and three novels as well as co-editing an anthology of essays about teaching poetry. Her first book of short stories, Relay: Short Fictions, was also published by Black Moss Press.Struthers received the Silver Medal as runner-up for the Milton Acorn Peoples Poetry Award in 1994 and was short-listed for the Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award in 1993 and the CBC Literary Awards in 2006. A past president of the League of Canadian Poets, she has read her work from coast to coast in Canada, in Australia, and in North Carolina, including the Sleeping Giant Literary Festival in Thunder Bay, the Spring Pulse Poetry Festival in Cobalt, Ontario, and the Labrador Creative Arts Festival in Happy Valley/Goose Bay. Her poems and fiction have been published in many anthologies (most recently, In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry and Going Top Shelf: An Anthology of Canadian Hockey Poetry) and literary journals; she has taught workshops in both poetry and fiction to students of all ages from kindergarten to adults. Resident in Peterborough since 1977, Struthers works as a freelance editor of academic texts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Moss Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0887533450
• ISBN 13: 9780887533457
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80