The Weight of Survival by Biello, Tina

The Weight of Survival (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781773861395)

Vendor: Tina Biello
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Format: Paperback
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The Weight of Survival by Biello, Tina

The Weight of Survival

$15.00
The Weight of Survival by Biello, Tina

The Weight of Survival

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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Nestled in a small logging town near Lake Cowichan is an old elementary school. The child of immigrants from post-war Italy attends this school among the population of mostly white, anglo-saxon families. She does not speak English. Her family is one of four who emigrated from southern Italy, to this small forested community. There are other families, from India, who share a kinship of ' other' with the Italian families. What happens when your voice, your food, your home is different? How do you know how to be queer when there is no language or place for it? How do you remember a time not spoken of, but passed on through the smell of walnut blossoms in the spring, grapes in the fall? In Portrait of an Immigrant, Tina Biello chronicles this upbringing of otherness, of being shaped by two very different communities, of blending identities into one, and what is left behind in the process.

Author: Tina Biello
ISBN-10: 1773861395
ISBN-13: 9781773861395
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Language: English
Published: 05/02/2024
Pages: 72
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.30w x 0.20d
By Tina Biello
By Tina Biello
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Tina Biello is Italian by way of Lake Cowichan, BC. She is born to immigrant parents from Southern Italy. She lives on the traditional territory of the Snaw-naw-as people. She is an actor, a poet and playwright. Her first full-length book of poetry, In the Bone Cracks of the Walls, published by Leaf Press, was part of a multi-disciplinary art exhibition of poetry, watercolour and music in Montreal, Vancouver and Italy. A Housecoat Remains is her second collection with Guernica Editions, 2015. Playing into Silence is her third collection with Caitlin Press, 2018.

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