Paperback. The lyrical and precise stories in "The Garden of Earthly Intimacies" achieve an intensity that touches on the rhapsodic. Few characters in recent Canadian fiction are as responsive to the sensual richness of the world as the women who inhabit these beautifully transparent stories. Whether they're stepping into a warm bath recently abandoned by an elusive, imaginary lover, or stepping onto the pure whiteness of an isolated Mexican beach, the women in Meeka Walsh's fictional garden carry themselves forward in a glistening exquisite dance. These stories also tell, with uncanny accuracy, of the closeness between human and animal worlds. Leopard cousins, hieratic iguanas and a dog like a gazelle occupy the same active and emotional space as the humans encountered by the reader. In what has been described as break-through writing, Meeka Walsh writes in a celebratory way about her own body, and her narrators take from their womanly beings fierce and delicate imprints for lives lived with quiet but uncompromising passion. Includes lyrical and precise stories that achieve an intensity that touches on the rhapsodic. This title tells the closeness between human and animal worlds. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: The Garden of Earthly Intimacies (Paperback)
Publisher: Porcupine's Quill Inc.,Canada, Ontario
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0889841845
ISBN 13: 9780889841840
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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The lyrical and precise stories in "The Garden of Earthly Intimacies" achieve an intensity that touches on the rhapsodic. Few characters in recent Canadian fiction are as responsive to the sensual richness of the world as the women who inhabit these beautifully transparent stories. Whether they're stepping into a warm bath recently abandoned by an elusive, imaginary lover, or stepping onto the pure whiteness of an isolated Mexican beach, the women in Meeka Walsh's fictional garden carry themselves forward in a glistening exquisite dance.

These stories also tell, with uncanny accuracy, of the closeness between human and animal worlds. Leopard cousins, hieratic iguanas and a dog like a gazelle occupy the same active and emotional space as the humans encountered by the reader. In what has been described as break-through writing, Meeka Walsh writes in a celebratory way about her own body, and her narrators take from their womanly beings fierce and delicate imprints for lives lived with quiet but uncompromising passion.

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It's uncanny how these stories and their characters sneak up on you, stay with you, haunt you, for these are mostly stories in which nothing happens. A woman stays in a hotel for two weeks and gets small gifts on her dinner service from a chef she never sees; a woman takes a bath in a tub recently vacated by her travelling companion. But there's magic at work. Walsh has done something to time. She can stretch a description of a man casting a fishing line for a full page, and you are hooked; the tension never lessens.'--Rosemary Sullivan "Quill & Quire "

"The Garden of Earthly Intimacies" perfectly captures the intangible. The best stories (the title story, Mexican Island Quartet', Going Down') are like translations of sensuality, as if sand or butter or seawater spoke a language not quite like ours. And it's through the senses that her characters discover themselves, or find the power to rebel against a variety of cruelties.'--Andre Alexis "Globe & Mail "

A central theme of the book is the belief that knowing and interpreting the world are private and nearly unsharable passions. What can be exchanged are words, stories, music. And beneath the language and visual beauty of the text is a yearning to tell smells. The olfactory sense, once so vital to our survival, is often evoked.'--Michael Kenyon "Malahat Review "

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