Shawna Lemay
Shawna Lemay lives in Edmonton. She received a B.A. in Honors English from the University of Alberta in 1995.
Her first book of poems, All the God-Sized Fruit (1999), won the Gerald Lampert and the Stephan G. Stephansson Awards in 1999. Her second book of poems, Against Paradise, was published in 2001.
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Against Paradise
Trade Paperback | 104 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry
978-0-7710-5227-9 (0-7710-5227-8)
February 15, 2001 | $16.99
Shawna Lemay’s rich, amused, insistent, ingenious meditation on Venice will surprise readers with its peculiar grace. Here is the work of an elegant raconteur; a self-effacing, sharp-eared occupier of voices; a high-toned, compassionate gossip. From many mouths, she offers us the city, doomed, full of light.
Lemay’s Venice is a small...
Written by Shawna Lemay
Trade Paperback | 104 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry
978-0-7710-5227-9 (0-7710-5227-8)
February 15, 2001 | $16.99
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Shawna Lemay’s rich, amused, insistent, ingenious meditation on Venice will surprise readers with its peculiar grace. Here is the work of an elegant raconteur; a self-effacing, sharp-eared occupier of voices; a high-toned, compassionate gossip. From many mouths, she offers us the city, doomed, full of light.
Lemay’s Venice is a small...
