One Stone (Signed First Edition)

Pelman, Barbara

ISBN 10: 1894800370 / ISBN 13: 9781894800372

Published by Ekstasis, Victoria, 2005

About this Item

Poems. Signed by author (signature only) on title page. 105 pages.

Seller Inventory # 22089

Bibliographic Details

• Title: One Stone (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Ekstasis, Victoria
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1894800370
• ISBN 13: 9781894800372
• Binding: Thin Trade Paperback Original
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadian Literature

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Synopsis

Lyrical poems map the reconstruction of a woman's life after an exodus from a twenty year marriage. Pelman takes this all-too common sorrow and places it in the natural world. The poems trace a conscious reconstruction of self: from a narrow place of limitations through a metaphorical desert, towards joy, the eventual promised land. In the process of creating and refining the poem itself, she has found a parallel healing of the spirit. “If words could build a world, like love / one stone would be enough.”

About the Author

Born in Vancouver, Barbara Pelman has lived in Toronto, London England, and various towns in BC –– from Blueberry Creek to Saltspring Island. She has taught in colleges, alternative schools, universities, and high schools. She currently lives in Victoria and teaches English at Reynolds Secondary School.