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Asian Heritage in Canada
Authors
Souaid, Carolyn Marie
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Carolyn Marie Souaid was born in 1959 and raised in Montreal, Quebec. She earned a teaching degree at McGill Univeristy and in 1995 an M.A. in English from Concordia University. Her thesis, Hollow Grass, is a collection of poetry about motherhood in the context of adoption. Souaid has taught at the elementary and university levels, taught high school English to adult students, and has worked as a freelance journalist and magazine columnist. Her ancestral heritage is Lebanese. |
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Poetry
October
Winnipeg, Man.: Nuage Editions, 1999.
Includes some text in French.
Publisher's Synopsis (from the Signature Editions website)
October spans three decades of Quebec life, chronicling one woman's attempt to forge some kind of reconciliation between the "warring" cultures, to find the common ground of the French and the English. It is a personal, unabashed look at her own marriage to a French Quebecer which finds her straddling two worlds, two cultures, two very different mentalities. From start to end, echoes of the October Crisis are carefully woven into the text, a constant reminder that the fractious past is never very far behind.
Awards and Honours
1999 or 2000 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (Quebec Writers' Federation)(Nominated)
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Poetry
Paper Oranges
Winnipeg, Man.: Signature Editions, 2008.
9th floor PS8587 .O87 P36 2008
Publisher's synopsis (From its website)
Paper Oranges is a poetic response to Vladimir and Estragon, Beckett's infamous pair, who pin their hopes on salvation that never arrives. It explores the notion of human existence as an extended wait characterized by quiet desperation, loneliness, suffering and the search for self. ...
Using the metaphor of flight, these evocative poems examine how habit and daily routine, societal convention and moral obligation trap us in the emotional death of repetitive cycles. Perhaps the only truth in this random universe lies in the present moment. ... |
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Poetry
Satie's Sad Piano: A Long Poem
Winnipeg, Man.: Signature Editions, 2005.
9th floor PS8587 .O87 S28 2005
Publisher's Synopsis (from its website)
Satie's Sad Piano is a long poem charting the convergent deaths of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, a love affair, and a fetus through the intersecting voices of an unlikely cast of characters—among them Radio, Mont-Royal, a series of old love letters, and a modern-day apostle.
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Poetry
Snow Formations
Winnipeg, Man.: Signature Editions, 2002.
Publisher's Synopsis (from its website)
Weary of her humdrum existence, a woman packs up and heads for Arctic Quebec, where she hopes to find a new lease on life teaching native children. She quickly discovers, however, that the Inuit have far more to teach her than she, them, as she slowly learns that each day on this earth is a rich sensory experience, not merely to be lived, but savoured. Loosely based on the author's own three-year experience in settlements along the Hudson-Ungava coast, Snow Formations takes a realistic look at the modern Inuit world through post-industrial eyes, always walking the fine line between idealism and cynicism, hope and despair.
Awards and Honours
2003 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (Quebec Writers' Federation)(Nominated) |
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Poetry
Swimming Into the Light
Montreal: Nuage Editions, 1995.
9th floor PS8587 .O87 S95 1995
Publisher's Synopsis (from the Signature Editions website)
Swimming into the Light is a sequence of poems charting a woman's struggle with infertility and her entry into motherhood through the back door of international adoption. The book traces these events in a connected narrative, from her frustration and despair over infertility to the uncertainty of international adoption and rescuing a new life from a war-torn country, and finally to the quiet reflections on motherhood.
Awards and Honours
1995 or 1996 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (Quebec Writers' Federation) (Nominated) |
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