Product Description
This book is a collection of essays and articles by Canadian painters and sculptors, musicians and composers, poets and novelists and journalists. Teachers, choreographers, actors, book-store owners, cooks, farmers, needle-workers...
Creative folks discuss what they do, and why, and how they do it. Apparently thereés not one correct way. These people create in whatever ways work for them. Forget those how-to books. Find your own method. You too can be creative.
Writers write. Painters paint. Composers compose. All we creatures groping, learning the world whatever way we can; using pens, paintbrushes, musical instruments, whatever we have.
Trying to understand the world and our place in it; to bring order out of chaos; to figure out who we are, where we are, what we are doing here. Sometimes trying to communicate with others. Who are you? What are you doing? Hereés what Iéve been creating. This is my version of the world. Is it the same as yours?
What in the world do non-artists do? How do they manage to figure out the world? Donét they need to make sense of things, create order? Is it possible that they already understand the world? If so, how come?
About the Author
Carol Malyon’s publications include The Migration of Butterflies (a novel), Colville’s People (poetry), The Adultery Handbook (a novel), If I Knew I’d Tell You, a novel shortlisted for the Smithbooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award, The Edge of the World (stories, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize), and Lovers & Other Strangers (stories). Her stories also appear in the anthologies Love and Hunger and Vivid: Stories by Five Women. In the 1980s Malyon owned the Beaches Book Shop in Toronto. She currently lives and writes in Toronto, with occasional peregrinations to Vancouver, and to Fredericton, where she was writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick in 1997. She lives and writes in Toronto.
