In a coming-of-age story inspired by second-wave feminism, the intelligent and curious Habella confronts her passions and those of the men around her. From her first period, to unsettling sexual encounters, to her dissatisfying life as a mother and wife, The Bee Book follows Habella as she negotiates the complexities of her desires as they conflict with the oppressive norms of patriarchy. In this genre-defying work that brings together fiction, poetry, visual art, games, and more, we follow Habella—deeply inspired by the lives of bees—as she seeks self-liberation.

Originally published in 1981, this new edition features an introduction by Stephen Cain and Eric Schmaltz.

About the Authors

Ann Rosenberg (1940–2018) was a vital presence in the Vancouver art and publishing scene as a curator, critic, artist, writer, and an editor at The Capilano Review from 1975 to 1986. She founded the Fine Arts department at Capilano College and was the author of Movement in Slow Time (1988) and The Bee Book.

Eric Schmaltz is the author of Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-gardism in Canada, 1963-1988 (University of Calgary Press), Surfaces (Invisible Publishing), and I Confess (Coach House Books). He is the editor of Another Order: Selected Works of Judith Copithorne (Talonbooks) and co-editor of I Want to Tell You Love by bill bissett and Milton Acorn. His creative work has been published, exhibited, and performed nationally and internationally.

Stephen Cain is Professor of English at York University where he teaches Canadian and avant-garde literature. He is the author of seven books of poetry and the editor of bp: beginnings (2014), a critical edition of the early long poems and sequences of bpNichol.

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