She - Harris, Claire
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Penelope-Marie Lancet yearns for a child. A baby would mend her life, a baby would heal her maimed relationship with the world. A false pregnancy ignites her conviction that her child has been taken away. She tells of Penelope's obsession, her tragic history, her theft of a baby, and the fragmentation of her personality. In letters to her sister Jasmine, at least six personalities write in their different voices, at first in turn and then interrupting one another. As Jasmine arrives from Trinidad and knocks at the door of Penelope's Calgary apartment, the inner dialogues become cacophony.

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Penelope-Marie Lancet yearns for a child. A baby would mend her life, a baby would heal her maimed relationship with the world. A false pregnancy ignites her conviction that her child has been taken away. She tells of Penelope's obsession, her tragic history, her theft of a baby, and the fragmentation of her personality. In letters to her sister Jasmine, at least six personalities write in their different voices, at first in turn and then interrupting one another. As Jasmine arrives from Trinidad and knocks at the door of Penelope's Calgary apartment, the inner dialogues become cacophony.
Autorenporträt
Claire Harris (1937-2018) was a Canadian poet of Trinidadian background who produced eight collections of poems. Her first volume, Fables from the Women's Quarters (1984), won the Commonwealth Award for Poetry for the Americas Region. First released in 1992, Drawing Down a Daughter was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry. Her work has been included in more than 70 anthologies and has been translated into German and Hindi. Claire Harris was born in Trinidad, West Indies, studied at University College, Dublin, where she earned a BA Honours in English. She came to Canada in 1966 and settled in Calgary. In 1975, during a study leave in Nigeria, she first wrote for publication and was encouraged by Nigerian poet, J.P. Clark. She also earned a diploma in communications from the University of Lagos, Nigeria (1975). After returning to Canada, Harris became active in the literary community in Calgary working as poetry editor at Dandelion from 1981-1989 and helping to found the all-Alberta magazine, blue buffalo, in 1983. She taught grade nine English in Calgary's Separate School system for 28 years, influencing generations of young people.