Unleashed

by Sina Queyras

05/09/04 Now she is blogging. Now she is sitting on the black couch listening to the sirens wail and the rain fall. Now she is thinking of oysters. Now she is wondering why this is worth sharing. Now she is thinking, how decipher what is worth reading? Who is to say? Sifters. She thinks we have become a nation of sifters. So began a three-year experiment in blogging. An experiment begun for many reasonsï??a way for an expat to keep in touch with fellow Canadian writers and artists, a way to come to terms with the increasing relevance of the internet in literary lives, and a way to figure out why, after decades of gains, women writers are still grossly underrepresented in critical dialogues. 11/27/05 Where, one might ask, are the women? I have my theories. Look to the deletions, the hesitations, the reflective responsesï??the women are still out there thinking, their voices not quite up for the often bombastic and instantaneous responses. Taking up a public space and voice does something to one's brain. There is no getting away from the space one creates "out there"ï??unleashed.

Genres: Poetry, Art

176 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2009

About the author

Sina Queyras' last collection of poetry, Expressway, was nominated for a Governor General's Award and won Gold at the National Magazine Awards. Her previous collection Lemon Hound won a Lambda Award and the Pat Lowther Award, and she is the winner of the 2012 Friends of Literature Award. She is a blogger for Harriet, the Poetry Foundation's blog.

Reviews

[Nikki · Rating 5 out of 5]

As you may know, I've been blogging for Sina Queyras' Lemon Hound blog since January 2010 and I enjoyed reading through the development of the blog in book form through various stops and starts and rethinks. The importance for women to make their voices public was especially meaningful for me

[Shannon · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

it's fabulous to be able to have Lemon Hound's blog in book form to take along and mull over wherever you go.