White Sheets - Paperback

by Beverley Bie Brahic (Author)

Beverley Bie Brahic is a poet with her eye on what is happening between us, between continents on which she lives, between familial relationships, between languages in which she works. In this, her second collection--the first to be published in Canada--her assured and dignified voice speaks of the world around her, creating original and fascinating poems.

Author Biography

Beverley Bie Brahic is a poet and translator. Born in Saskatoon, she grew up in Vancouver and was educated at the University of British Columbia, Columbia University, and the Université de Provence. She has published a poetry collection, Against Gravity (Worple, 2005) and a number of translations from French, including a selection of poems by Francis Ponge, Unfinished Ode to Mud (CBeditions, 2008), a finalist for the Popescu Prize for Poetry in Translation, and Hélène Cixous's Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint (2004, Columbia University Press). She lives in Stanford, California and Paris, France.