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    The Flower Can Always Be Changing
    The Flower Can Always Be Changing
    The Flower Can Always Be Changing
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    The Flower Can Always Be Changing

    By Shawna Lemay

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    “A lamp and a flower pot in the center. The flower can always be changing.”—Virginia Woolf. From the bestselling author of Rumi and the Red Handbag comes a new collection of brief essays about the intersection of poetry, painting, photography and beauty. Inspired by the words of Virginia Woolf, Lemay welcomes you into her home, her art and her life as a poet and photographer of the every day. Lemay shares visits to the museum with her daughter, the beauty in an average workday at the library, and encourages writers and readers to make an appointment with flowers, with life. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPalimpsest Press
    Release dateMay 1, 2018
    ISBN9781989287019
    The Flower Can Always Be Changing
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    Shawna Lemay

    Shawna Lemay is a writer, blogger, photographer, and library assistant. She has written six books of poetry, All the God-Sized Fruit, Against Paradise, Still, Blue Feast, Red Velvet Forest, and Asking, as well as a book of essays, Calm Things, and an experimental work, Hive: A Forgery. Her first book won the Stephan G. Stephansson Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She lives in Edmonton.

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