arsarca

My blogs

Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	freelance writer / literary journalist
Location	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Introduction	A misanthropic mostly stay-at-home mother writes while dosed on the vicious combination of ennui and graduate school education. She is antisocial, antisociety, and anticipating catharsis.
Interests	Overextending myself. Putting fingers in lots of pots. (I actually wrote "poets" there, which would have been incriminating.) Revealing biographical details on-line.
Favorite Music	Feist. Espace Musique. Alex Cuba. Metric, even though I'm a little shy to say that. Classical music, esp. depressing Russians. AA Sound System.
Favorite Books	Have been reading a lot of poetry recently; stuff I keep revisiting: Charles Olson, Pablo Neruda (Canto General, not the lovey-dovey stuff), Daphne Marlatt, Denise Levertov, Robert Kroestch, Jack Spicer. I've been reading field manuals of flowers native to the Canadian prairies for the extended pastoral I'm writing right now: Edible and Medicinal Plants of Canada & Wildflowers of Alberta, eg.