Confessions of an Empty Purse

by S. McDonald

The interstices of gender, perception and image! confessions of an empty purse is a poetic transmemoir of passion and fear, laughter, nightmares and dysphoria, preservation, degradation, dreams and pride ... and it really happened. I was am there. S. McDonald

Genres: Poetry

72 pages

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

S. McDonald was born, raised and continues to live in Toronto. Ze grew up in pre-gentrification Cabbagetown and Regent Park. Ze has performed zir alternative spoken word performance pieces at various venues including Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s annual Rhubarb! Festival and Paddy’s Playhouse. Ze is the love child of Christine Jorgensen & John Rechy & the spiritual godchild of Jacqueline Susann.

Reviews

[Alexis]

I hate giving star rating to poetry, so I'll just talk about what I liked about this book. I loved the old film references and the clear, narrative line throughout the poetry. I think this is one of the first books of poetry I've read that talks about the trans experience. This was a very quick read, and I think this collection would work best as a stage show performed by the author.

[Jeffrey Greening · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best line from the poem “Slip”

“I want to be as thin as the scars on my wrist”

[THE TORONTO QUARTERLY · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best new Canadian poetry collections of 2010!!