Marrying the Sea

by Janice Kulyk Keefer

Fantasies and meditations on friendship and on erotic, romantic, tormented, spurned, married, illicit, patriarchal, filial, professional, and shot-gun. On the love of men and women, and of women for as friends, as mothers, as daughters, as uncertain selves; intimate communion with women living, with their imagined pasts, and with the dead. Acclaimed author of Rest Harrow and The Green Library , Janice Kulyk Keefer brings her passionate intelligencs to bear on the beauties and perplexities of these most perennial of human obsessions. The poems are notable for their alert, musical line as much as for their range and sophistication. WINNER of the 1999 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry SHORTLISTED for the 1999 Pat Lowther Memorial Award for the Best Book of Poetry by a Canadian Woman (Published in 1998) -- sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets

Genres: Poetry

126 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1998

About the author

She is a Canadian novelist and poet.

Born in Toronto, she studied literature at universities in England and France. She teaches literature and theatre in the graduate studies department at the University Of Guelph.

Of Ukrainian heritage, Janice often writes about the experiences of first-generation Canadian children of immigrants. Her sister is the Canadian artist, Karen Kulyk.

Reviews

[Jessie B. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful and dreamlike but also feels very personal

[Kerem Ince · Rating 4 out of 5]

I see this as the convulsions of an ordinary romantic mind, not of a poet's. It gives back one's own dissappointments and inspiration. It takes one to an hardly accesable place, I would even say.