TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wiesenthal,Christine
TI  - The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther
SN  - 9780802036353
AV  - PR9199.3.L66 Z95 2005eb
U1  - 811/.54 
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Since her untimely death in 1975, the life and work of the Vancouver poet Pat Lowther have often been referred to as 'the Lowther legacy.' In The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther, Christine Wiesenthal seeks to convey what that legacy actually entails.Combining biography with an analysis of literary and cultural history, Wiesenthal examines the critical legacy of a writer whose remarkable life and poetry have remained overshadowed by her notorious death. Working within a new form of biography, which employs multiple narrative arcs - or 'half-lives' - that interpret Lowther's life and poetry within and across several interpretive frameworks, Wiesenthal retraces the influences on the public memory of the poet. She charts Lowther's complex creative evolution: from her modest beginnings as a high-school drop out and single mother, to her emergence as one of the most distinctive poetic voices of the seventies. A wealth of previously uncollected and unpublished letters, notebook entries, court documents, interviews, and archival materials illuminate Pat Lowther's manifold achievements in her domestic, political, and intellectual lives. The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther is the premier work on this remarkable figure
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