arsarca

About me

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.