Looking Into Your Voice: The Poetic and Eccentric Realities of Alzheimer's - Softcover

Borrie, Cathie

9780981378671: Looking Into Your Voice: The Poetic and Eccentric Realities of Alzheimer's

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ISBN 10: 0981378676 ISBN 13: 9780981378671

Publisher: NIGHTWING PRESS, 2010

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This beautiful poem of a book, looking into your voice ~ the poetic and eccentric realities of Alzheimer's, is a collection of conversations offering alternative and beautiful insights into the Alzheimer's mind.

Celebrating the revelatory eloquence of the altered realities of dementia, these vignettes are also included in Cathie Borrie's lyrical memoir, The Long Hello which chronicles and cherishes the relationship between a mother and daughter over a seven-year period as the mother's mind transforms and her dementia increases.

The mother's voice weaves throughout the memoir with insight, humor and an astonishing poetic sensibility, challenging the negative stereotypes pervasive in the current and often limiting geography of dementia.

This family memoir is also intended for readers interested in the quirks of memory and in the universal themes of loss, love, divorce, and the meaning in suffering. It includes many tender, moving, and happy childhood stories.

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About the Author

Cathie Borrie (a.k.a. Cath, CB, Cat) has degrees in health (2) and law (1), but nothing prepared her for the seven years she spent caring for her mother who had Alzheimer's & Parkinson's.

Along this often heartbreaking and unexpectedly fascinating journey, she discovered that recording conversations with her mother, writing a memoir, and learning to ballroom dance were ways to tell both her and her mother's story.

Excerpts from The Long Hello were shortlisted three times in the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Literary Awards, Canada's most notable writing competition for unpublished work.

Currently she directs and performs in concerts based upon the text in her memoir, THE LONG HELLO. She incorporates dance and film and is accompanied by actor Patti Allan and cellist Ariel Barnes.

From the Back Cover

This tender elegy reveals the brilliance of a transforming mind and will forever change how you relate to a person with Alzheimer's.

Perhaps it will forever change how you relate to anyone . . .

Cathie Borrie is the artistic director and performer in concert productions based upon text from THE LONG HELLO, where she is accompanied by award winning actor Patti Allan and cellist Ariel Barnes. The concerts incorporate dance and film.

For information: cathieborrie.com

From the Inside Flap

These are a selection of book blurbs, serving as a sort of inside flap.
It is thrilling for me that so many wonderful and respected people "get" my mother in the middle of her dementia, and celebrate her and her mind. I celebrate you too, Mum.

In the "upside-down language of birds", Borrie and her mother find each other. This book challenges our beliefs about what it means to live with dementia and strengthens our knowledge of the possibilities of the mind.
More, it's a belly laugh--and that is smart medicine.
GARY GLAZNER Founder and Executive Director, The Alzheimer's Poetry Project

Une explosion et l'�sprit s'ouvre, se dilate . . .This book shows us that dementia--a term to describe our incapacity to understand and celebrate the metamorphosis of a mind--can be a way to access and experience the extreme richness and flourishing of the human psyche. looking into your voice, the poetic and eccentric realities of alzheimer's is a work of art that captures the work of art of an altering reality. An illumination of the strange and beautiful symphonic shifting of the dementia mind, it brings forth startling and visionary truth.
DARIO GARAU SETZU pianist, musicologist, researcher, visionary caregiver.

It's a good thing when the veil lifts as it does in this work. What previously felt opaque suddenly offers a view of life that shines. This book reminds me that when I listen in a new way, a window to the soul is eased open. That's a relief . . . and it's also redemptive.
John Fox, President & CEO, The Institute for Poetic Medicine; Certified Poetry Therapist; author of Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making