Trading Beauty Secrets with the Dead
Erina Harris
October 15, 2024
150 pages | ISBN 978-1-998408-03-0
In Trading Beauty Secrets with the Dead, Erina Harris works with fairy tales, children’s literature, mythology and feminist literary history to ask important questions of gender, of queerness, of misogyny and of the role of art in social change. These are brilliant, innovative poems, where Harris displays an exceptional mastery of both traditional and experimental forms to examine versions of our endangered future. Vibrant, disruptive and always questioning, Harris invites us all to upend tradition and engage deeply with the modern world.
Reviews
Trading Poetics: A Review of Trading Beauty Secrets With The Dead by Erina Harris (Wolsak & Wynn 2024) (Chris Banks, The Woodlot, 10/09/2024)
"Trading Beauty Secrets With The Dead is not always an easy read, but it is not meant to be, and if the reader can let go of their expectations, and trust themselves to the reassuring voice of the poet Erina Harris, the collection becomes a compendium of striking poetic lines and a fascinating deep dive into misogyny and myth, other writers, other texts, most of which are all long gone."
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About the Author
Erina Harris is a Canadian writer, educator and mentor. Her first book, The Stag Head Spoke (Buckrider Books, 2014), was shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry. A graduate and Fellow of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, her work has been published widely, translated and awarded multiple prizes including international residencies. She lives and teaches in Edmonton, Alberta.
OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR
The Stag Head Spoke (2014)
