The Tightrope Walker : Autobiographical Writings of Anne Wilkinson PDF
by Anne Wilkinson
Edited by Joan Coldwell
Part of the Heritage series
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Anne Wilkinson (1910-61) was one of the most celebrated Canadian writers of her time.
Her success as a poet came against all odds: nothing in her background, from geography to genealogy, would have suggested a literary career.
She lived her life and practiced her art in Toronto at a time when the nerve centre of Canadian poetry was unquestionably Montreal.
She was born into the highest levels of Toronto society, a daughter of the very distinguished Osler family. And yet she wrote poetry, and was published to great acclaim, through decades of marriage, child-rearing, divorce, and illness. From December 1947 to July 1956, the years during which she wrote her most successful poetry, Wilkinson kept journals; in due course she also wrote an autobiography, part of which appeared in a literary magazine shortly after she died.
Joan Coldwell brings together the complete text of the autobiography with the poet’s journals, some samples of her poetry, and a moving exchange of letters between Wilkinson and her mother. The journals vividly reveal the inner workings of the writer’s mind and her struggles to create in a difficult environment.
With an immediacy and power that only journals can achieve, these writings explore the nature of the creative process in a context of daily realities that are often harsh and sometimes heart-breaking.
The autobiography tells the story in a different way, rearranged to fit the forms of a 'legitimate' genre. Together with Coldwell’s introduction, these writings present a unique and moving self-portrait of a poet who died too young, at the peak of her career.
This volume celebrates Wilkinson’s life and work, and the spirit that informed them.
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- Pages:275 pages
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:20/07/1992
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- ISBN:9781442682443
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:275 pages
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:20/07/1992
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- ISBN:9781442682443