Lola LemireTostevin
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Tostevin’s latest offering of poetry emerges from her deep-seated interest in the creativity of women who face advanced age and its ailments. Through study of exhibitions in galleries and museums, films and dance performances, and voluminous “bodies” of text, it became clear to Tostevin that aging not only serves women’s creativity but also reinforces it, revealing many forms of strength in vulnerability.
Singed Wings invites the reader to peer into the interior world of Camille Claudel, whose intimate understanding of her subjects, from young girl to old woman, captured quite a different power than that of her lover, sculptor Auguste Rodin. Although Claudel was not able to fully realize her creative process into old age, many others did, including Louise Bourgeois, Frida Kahlo, Betty Goodwin, Pina Bausch, and Agnès Varda, and it is in direct response to the vital creativity of these women that the poet finds the inspiration and determination to move her own art forward.
- Published 2013
- Talonbooks Publishers
- Vancouver, B.C.,Canada
- ISBN 13: 9780889227903 | ISBN 10: 088922790X
- Published 2007
- Nomados Literary Publishers
- Vancouver, B.C.,Canada
- ISBN 978-0-9781072-4-6
Site-Specific Poems is Lola Lemire Tostevin's ninth book - accomplished, lyrical, incisive, beautiful, it can be read as a series of linked poems, as a book of longer poems, or as one extended poem that questions and examines the "site" of poetry: memory, paper, ink, geography language, nostalgia, the body. Lola Lemire Tostevin acts as poet-surveyor, while mapping out the long poem. Site-Specific Poems is redolent and radiant with the magical light of place without and within writing.
- Published 2004
- The Mercury Press
- Toronto, Ont. Canada
- ISBN 1-55128-108-2
Writing about the death of one's father or of close friends brings into sharp focus the essential relation between language and death as it was so beautifully expressed on the temple walls of Ancient Egypt.
The journal entries of Cartouches were not written in the usual traditional diary form in which a day's events are recorded. They were, like the poems, "fashioned" as a process of writing through which the writer gives meaning to events that may (or may not) have happened.
"...a fine poetic talent who is able to give us a new relationship to language. "There is a depth of reflection and an honesty of emotion in these poems that make Cartouches a very special reading experience." - Journal of Canadian Poetry
" ...lovely, nape-tingling work. It bears re-reading, it repays the attention given." - Books in Canada
' ... [Tostevin's] Writing is disciplined, lucid, and enormously suggestive. ...[There is] delight ... in words themselves, in the interplay of sound and sense, but there is always a bite behind the play ...' - Journal of Canadian Poetry
- Published 1988
- The Coach House Press
- Toronto, Ont. Canada
- ISBN 0-88910-323-2
An Italian translation of 'sophie.
"The poetry of Lola Lemire Tostevin crosses cultures - - as witnessed by the voice and music of Billie Holiday, and of Bach, of Einstein and of Pythagoras, of Derrida, of Brossard and of Phyllis Webb,the voice of the woman in the Song of Songs and that of a private I, lived and imagined"
'... confirms her as one of the most intelligent and important poets in Canada today.' - The Malahat Review
- Published 1985
- Longspoon Press
- Edmonton, Alberta
- ISBN 0-919285-34-1
' ... language honed to a fine exactitude; not a word struggles; ... one of the finest examples of the poetry of necessity ...' - Canadian Literature
- Published 1983
- Underwhich Editions
- Toronto, Ont. Canada
Two of the central issues of contemporary Canadian discourse, bilingualism and feminism, are used as metaphors for the struggle we all must make to recover our own personal speech, a way of reaching each other.
' ... a powerful and invigorating performance, a superb book from anyone, but especially as a first effort.' - Quarry
- Published 1982
- The Coach House Press
- Toronto, Ont. Canada
- ISBN 0-88910-255-4
Color of Her Speech translated into Italian by Analisa Goldoni. The texts are laid out so as to present the English version on the opposite page.
- Published 2009
- Editioni Empiria
- Via Baccina, 79-00184, Roma
- ISBN 978-88-96218-03-7
Singed Wings
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