Tom Three Persons

by Yvonne Trainer

Tom Three Persons was created as a one-person oral performance piece by Yvonne Trainer in the early 1990s. Yvonne's audiences have variously defined it as Biography in Verse, a work of Prairie Realism, a Postmodern long poem, a Postcolonial text, and a Multimedia piece. In Yvonne's own "Tom Three Persons stands as a symbol for my childhood on the Canadian prairie and the death of that childhood." Ultimately, on the page Tom Three Persons reveals the striving to go beyond the self, whatever the situation, toward the advancement of human progress.

71 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2002