Playing Into Silence by Tina Biello (English) Paperback Book

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Growing up during the 50s and 60s in small town Alberta, Pam was keenly aware, by the age of nine, that she was a lesbian. And she also knew well to hide this about herself. Pam would search for books on the The Island of Lesbos, only to return from the library with a copy of Little Women. In between the vast spaces of dust and dugouts, she grows up and grows old, playing her saxophone in deep, blaring notes. Age is a constant marker throughout these poems for an otherwise long and lonely time of waiting for queer rights, for acceptance, for love. Poet Tina Biello unearths just about everything from beneath the Alberta ground: dinosaur bones, a familys firstborn, missing cows. A voice from within the Prairies, Playing Into Silence is a look back at a dry time in lesbian identity.

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Tina Biello is Italian by way of Lake Cowichan, BC. She is born to immigrant parents from Southern Italy. She lives on the traditional territory of the Snaw-naw-as people. She is an actor, a poet and playwright. She had the great privilege of working with mentor Patrick Lane from 2008-2019. Her first full-length book of poetry, In the Bone Cracks of the Walls, published by Leaf Press, was part of a multi-disciplinary art exhibition of poetry, watercolour and music in Montreal, Vancouver and Italy. A Housecoat Remains is her second collection with Guernica Editions, 2015. Playing into Silence is her third collection with Caitlin Press, 2018. Her recent two-act play is based on Lorna Crozier's poems from A Saving Grace. She was the second Poet Laureate of Nanaimo from 2017–2020. Since then she has been collaborating with composers and the Vancouver Island Symphony with new symphonic works set to her poetry.

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It isnt often that poetry keeps me reading to find out what happens next but that was the case with Playing into Silence, Tina Biellos third, full-length collection of poetry. [] The conversational aspect and first person voice of many of the poems will make those readers who are fearful of or resistant to poetry into fans Mary Ann Moore, Story Circle Book Reviews

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It isnt often that poetry keeps me reading to find out what happens next but that was the case with Playing into Silence, Tina Biellos third, full-length collection of poetry. [] The conversational aspect and first person voice of many of the poems will make those readers who are fearful of or resistant to poetry into fans Mary Ann Moore, Story Circle Book Reviews

Details ISBN198791578X Author Tina Biello Pages 72 Publisher Caitlin Press Year 2018 ISBN-10 198791578X ISBN-13 9781987915785 Language English Format Paperback Place of Publication Saint George Country of Publication Canada UK Release Date 2018-08-06 Publication Date 2018-06-01 Imprint Caitlin Press DEWEY 811.6 Audience General We've got this

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