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Since her untimely death in 1975, the life and work of the Vancouver poet Pat Lowther have often been referred to as A'the Lowther legacy.A? 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 A? or A'half-livesA? A? that interpret LowtherA's life and poetry within and across several interpretive frameworks, Wiesenthal retraces the influences on the public memory of the poet. She charts LowtherA'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 A wealth of previously uncollected and unpublished letters, notebook entries, court documents, interviews, and archival materials illuminate Pat LowtherA's manifold achievements in her domestic, political, and intellectual lives. The Half-Lives of Pat Lowtheris the premier work on this remarkable figure.Wiesenthal, Christine is the author of 'Half-Lives Of Pat Lowther ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780802094803 and ISBN 0802094805.
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