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Responses to My Grandmother's Hair

Marion Woodman, Jungian Analyst, Author. London, Ontario.
An autobiography told with alarming authenticity. Alarming because it divulges the delights and devastations of being the third generation daughter of a family rooted in small town Ontario. Ann Elizabeth Carson details the resultant psychic spit created in herself. She superbly outlines her healing process through the creative and connecting power of myth, and of her own art work. Readers will look more deeply into themselves.

Toronto Women's Bookstore My Grandmother's Hair, Ann Elizabeth Carson.
A moving, multigenre autobiography combining images, poetry, and personal essay, this performative book calls readers to read out loud. Interweaving the author's life with her grandmother's life and her memory of it, this book offers a view to women's life cycles in epic survey and in the detail of a moment.

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Responses to Shadows Light

Jan Bailey, Author, Paper Clothes, Midnight in the Guestroom, Heart of the Other .
"In Shadows Light the poet confronts the silences; through poignant images grounded in daily life we fall wholly into uncensored emotion."

Kathy Ross, Sculptor.
"I stood in the living room reading a poem and my heart turned over as my dinner guests waited for their coffee. Powerful sculptures."

Margo Little, The Sudbury Star , 18/07/05.
Carson's poetry distils her life experiences and gives shape to universal questions as she explores the dualities in human existence. The landscapes and seascapes of Islands - Manitoulin in Ontario and Monhegan in Maine - have served as both inspiration and solace. Ann's poetry is accompanied by photographs of her sculptures that illustrate her central themes of the necessity for a connection to nature, to community and to deeply suppressed feelings of isolation and loss. As the title of the collection implies, the poet is striving for balance. Although she acknowledges the moments when "blackness inks my soul" she always walks towards the light. Readers are left with images of "everyday pleasures" and "the comfortable sounds of the Earth's living."

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