Ribsauce - An Anthology of Words by Women - Book with CD

by Taien Ng-Chan (Editor), Alex Boutros (Editor), Kaarla Sundstrom (Editor)

About the Author


Taien Ng-Chan is a Montreal writer and editor, originally from Calgary via Vancouver. In 2000 two of her short radio dramas were aired on CBC Radio and she was a winner of the CBC New Voices Radio Drama Competition. She produces art/lit websites including the "Speakeasy" webzine at Wired on Words

204 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[khara rosebrook · Rating 4 out of 5]

this anthology of women’s poetry, plays, and short stories was a beautifully random find for me—it was lying beneath French language classics by Vonnegut and Shelley in a cozy Montreal bookstore’s cardboard-box clearance section—and i earnestly believe it deserves front-display privileges. published in 2001 and featuring the work of 24 phenomenal writers (not including the performers on the CD, which i’ve yet to listen to because it is not 2001 anymore), Ribsauce is an exploration of many different types of girlhood—each as raw and unabashed and tough as the last—and i don’t mean Gen Z’s painstakingly gentle, coquettish, deliberately and all-consumingly feminine girlhood, the type of wretched “girlhood” that is neat and blithe and super-sweet as ever. Ribsauce contains true and real multitudes, colored by the hazy account of a young woman convinced she is tapped into the frequencies of the walls and the air around her, the blunt, awkward monologue of a farm-dwelling mother with baby daddies all across town, the harrowing, fragmented biography of a fictitious icon burdened by the cult that worships her trauma as its bible. my favorite works were “a story about god” by Dana Bath and the three included poems by Larissa Lai, two writers that i will be scouring the internet for any morsel of information on, as i felt they were really the most singular, most versatile, and least self-serious voices. i will be sharing this copy of Ribsauce with anyone and everyone because God only knows where else it can be found.