Love Me True by Fiona Tinwei Lam
What keeps us together? What breaks us apart? In Love Me True, 27 creative nonfiction writers and 20 poets explore how marriage and committed relationships have challenged, shaped, supported and changed them. The stories and poems in this collection delve deep into the mysteries of long-term bonds. The authors cover a gamut of issues and ideaseverything from everyday conflicts to deep philosophical divides, as well as jealousy, adultery, physical or mental illness, and loss. Theres happiness here too, along with love and companionship, whether the long-term partnering is monogamous, polyamorous, same-sex or otherwise. From surprise proposals, stolen quickies, and snoring to arranged marriage, affairs, suicide, and much more, the wide-ranging personal stories and poems in Love Me True are sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing, and always engaging as they offer their intimate and varied insights into the complex state that is marriage. Editors Jane Silcott and Fiona Tinwei Lam have assembled work from notable authors across Canada, both well-known and up-and-coming, including Luanne Armstrong, Joanne Arnott, Donna Besel, Ronna Bloom, Lesley Buxton, Mandy Len Catron, Kevin Chong, Lorna Crozier, Michael Crummey, Eufemia Fantetti, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Maureen Scott Harris, Maureen Hynes, Michelle Kaeser, Jagtar Kaur Atwal, Chelene Knight, Evelyn Lau, Ellen McGinn, Lauren McKeon, Monica Meneghetti, Jane Munro, Susan Musgrave, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Juliane Okot Bitek, Susan Olding, Elise Partridge, Miranda Pearson, Toni Pieroni, Tana Runyan, Rachel Rose, Andreas Schroeder, Karen Shklanka, Anne Simpson, Kara Stanley, Chris Tarry, Rob Taylor, Yasuko Thanh, Russell Thornton, Ayelet Tsabari, Bronwen Wallace, Betsy Warland, Gina Leola Woolsey, Samra Zafar, and others.Fiona Tinwei Lam is the author of two poetry collections, Intimate Distances (a City of Vancouver Book Award finalist) and Enter the Chrysanthemum, as well as a children's book, The Rainbow Rocket. She edited The Brilliant Well: Modern Canadian Poetry About Confronting Cancer and co-edited Two Lives: Writing and Motherhood (McGill-Queen's University Press). Almost 30 anthologies have published her poetry and prose. Her video poems have been screened locally and globally, and her poems have appeared twice on BC buses as part of the Poetry in Transit program. She has a BA (UBC), LLB (Queen's), and LLM (University of Toronto) as well as an MFA in creative writing from UBC.
She is currently employed at SFU Continuing Studies as a teacher and mentor. fionalam.net is a website dedicated to all things fionalam.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781987915662 |
| ISBN 10 | 1987915666 |
| Title | Love Me True |
| Author | Fiona Tinwei Lam |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Caitlin Press |
| Year published | 2018-02-14 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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