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Praise for The Shining Material
“Miss John here reminds, in oddly comely poems of direct address, ‘how small the aesthetic is’ and how ravenously transcendent the human woman. The mouths of these poems adore phonemes and are unafraid of their important difference: they say the woman as the linguist of thinking. They refuse to assuage or to mollify or to rectify. They smack of an emergent candour. To serve their biopolitic, they may have invented an extra vowel, the first since Hittite.” — Lisa Robertson
“Hers are poems fighting against the dark but not caught or trapped there, in pieces fighting to be heard” — rob mclennan
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Aisha Sasha John writes poetry and plays. Her work has appeared in The Capilano Review, Exile Quarterly, CV2, Carousel, and the Diaspora Dialogues anthology, TOK 3. In 2009, Aisha completed her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph; in 2010/11, she’s writing a play called Kissy Kissy as part of Nightwood Theatre’s Write From the Hip program as well as Theatre Passe Muraille’s theatre creators group, Upstarts. Visit her here: hugetime.tumblr.com.
96 pages | 8 x 5.5 inches | perfectbound
Condition: New
ISBN 9781897388792