Visible Cities captures moments of joy and sadness that occur each day on city streets, exploring the humble triumphs and mundane tragedies of urban life.
About the Author: Kathleen Wall is the author of Without Benefits of Words, Time's Body, and Blue Duets which was shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award for fiction.
160 Pages
Poetry, Women Authors
Series Name: Brave & Brilliant
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Book Synopsis
Visible Cities captures moments of joy and sadness that occur each day on city streets, exploring the humble triumphs and mundane tragedies of urban life. Photographs taken in locales from Regina to Venice, from Ottawa to Paris, inspire poems that reveal the unexpected beauty of the everyday experiences shaped by the cities we inhabit.
Veronica Geminder's photographs peer into back lanes, admire people absorbed in public art, and consider those ruminating on their own reflections in the glass expanses of office buildings. Kathleen Wall's poems delve for the story behind the photograph, nurturing the moments that would otherwise quickly pass us by.
Lose yourself in Visible Cities and uncover the vitality and complexity of urban life
Review Quotes
Geminder has a true talent for finding the rich abstract in what could hardly be more concrete. Out of these three-dimensional alleys and gardens and pedestrians and towers and streets and public sculptures and objects for sale, she creates flatted rectangles of shade and structure, rendering architecture into composition and revealing the inherent variety of ways of seeing that materialize when stasis is brought to bear on a moving world, or when our own movement through the city-space is arrested by a moment of attention.
--Andrew Dubois, University of Toronto Quarterly
An utterly compelling collaborative exploration of the richness of being in cities . . . by a mother-daughter team who capture the singularities of urban experience with originality and a depth of sensibility alternately lyrical, wry, and refreshingly candid.
- Christine Wisenthal, AlbertaViews
About the Author
Kathleen Wall is the author of Without Benefits of Words, Time's Body, and Blue Duets which was shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award for fiction.
Veronica Geminder holds an Honours B.A. in the History of Art and Architecture from McGill University and a Master in Philosophy in the History and Philosophy of Architecture from Cambridge University.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.24 Inches (H) x 7.52 Inches (W) x .51 Inches (D)
Weight: .69 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 160
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Women Authors
Series Title: Brave & Brilliant
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Kathleen Wall
Language: English
Street Date: February 21, 2018
TCIN: 1008780735
UPC: 9781552389591
Item Number (DPCI): 247-22-9725
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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