How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir by Dawn, Amber

How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir

City of Vancouver Book Award winnerAs raw and fiery as its author, How Poetry Saved My Life...
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Author: Amber Dawn
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How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir by Dawn, Amber

How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir

$40.65

How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir

$40.65
Author: Amber Dawn
Format: Paperback
Language: English

City of Vancouver Book Award winner

As raw and fiery as its author, How Poetry Saved My Life is a powerful account of survival and the transformative power of literature.

Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating fantasy about a group of magical prostitutes who band together to fend off bad johns in a fantastical underworld, won a Lambda Literary Award in 2011. While the plot of the book was wildly imaginative, it was also based on the author's own experience as a sex worker in the 1990s and early 2000s, and on her coming out as lesbian.

How Poetry Saved My Life, Amber Dawn's sophomore book, reveals an even more poignant and personal landscape--the terrain of sex work, queer identity, and survivor pride. This memoir, told in prose and poetry, offers a frank, multifaceted portrait of the author's experiences hustling the streets of Vancouver, and the how those years took away her self-esteem and nearly destroyed her; at the crux of this autobiographical narrative is the tender celebration of poetry and literature, that--as the title suggests--acted as a lifeline during her most pivotal moments.

Amber Dawn is the author of Sub Rosa, editor of Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009), and co-editor of With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005). She won the Writers' Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilivie Prize for emerging LGBT writers in 2012. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.




Author: Amber Dawn
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: 04/02/2013
Pages: 156
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781551525006


Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/2013 pg. 80

About the Author
Amber Dawn: Amber Dawn is a writer, filmmaker, and performance artist. She is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning novel Sub Rosa, editor of Fist of the Spider Woman, and co-editor of With a Rough Tongue. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She is also winner of the Dayne Ogilvie Prize from the Writers' Trust of Canada.


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