97 Positions of the Heart

97 Positions of the Heart

97 Positions of the Heart

97 Positions of the Heart

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Overview

Elizabeth Smart, author of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945), has been heralded as a complicated and passion fuelled artist who dared to live in disregard of the burdensome expectations for women in the first half of the last century. 97 Positions of the Heart is a lyrical travelogue through the courageous life of this Canadian writer. Poet Jaik Josephson mines both her biography and literary catalogue to escort the reader into her remarkable world. Each poem charts Smart's persistent quest to resist the forces that sought to claim and silence her. Text is paired with illustrations by Erin Josephson-Laidlaw to reveal a vast emotional range that meditates upon Elizabeth's bewildering childhood, a tumultuous romantic pairing with English writer, George Barker, the experience of motherhood and her pursuit of a prosaic language that speaks a truth about life in the social margins.

I am ready for a teetering walk in the dark

on those highest of heels.

I am ready for that merciful car.

Ready to ride to where suckling jazz wails feral,

to where my people smoke and laugh absurd in their feathers and uncaring.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781990738029
Publisher: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Publication date: 10/05/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 64
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Jaik Josephson's poetry has been published in Shared Wisdom: A Poetry Anthology and Prairie Fire. He has particular interest in fusing theatre and poetry. Six of his pieces were incorporated into Coming into Autumn, a multi-disciplinary work by Naomi Cooke and Brent Lott. Jaik is the author of The Colour of Vowels, a play based on the life and poetry of Arthur Rimbaud (workshopped by Theatre Projects Manitoba in 2001 and with a staged performance in 2002).


Erin Josephson-Laidlaw is a visual artist who often works in drawing, painting and collage. She received her BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2010 and completed her thesis work in Florence, Italy through OCAD’s 2008-09 Off-Campus Florence Program. She currently resides in Winnipeg and works at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art. Erin has exhibited work in Winnipeg, Gimli, Toronto, and Venice.

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