Stephanie Bolster

Inside A Tent Of Skin

"Photographs, paintings and artifacts provide the women Stephanie Bolster addresses in these edgy beautiful poems. Each reveals a text of history, need and desire that reverberates between the observer and the observed. The poems reach through the boundaries of the personal into mirrors of time and call up worlds of anatomy, cosmology, mythology and art. Bolster's world is large, the nuances sharpened by a passage through the heart."

–Marilyn Bowering

Colophon: Nine poems from the National Gallery of Canada. 6" x 8" with 28 unnumbered pages with text in New York 14pt and Avant Garde 10pt. Cover 80lb Wausau Summer Tan recycled fiber. Title and author's name letterpressed on cover & 1/4" spine in black soyabean oil-based ink. Endpapers- Riblaid, wine paper from France. Text paper archival acid-free Regalia Pearl 24lb. Tipped-in postcard of "Hope I" by Gustav Klimt, oil on canvas 1903, from the National Gallery of Canada. Spine handpressed, glued and handsewn with burgundy cotton thread. Signed and numbered.

About the Author: Stephanie Bolster's first collection, White Stone: the Alice poems, won the Governor General's Award and the Gerald Lampert Award in 1998. Her 2nd book, Two Bowls of Milk (M&S, 1999), was short-listed for the Trillium Award 2000. Her third book, also by M&S is titled Pavilion (2002).

Awards: Winner of the 1998 Governor General's Award for Poetry, and 1st prize, 4th (m)Öthêr Tøñguè poetry chapbook contest. Judges: Robert Kroetsch and Marilyn Bowering.

Edition: Limited Edition of 100.

ISBN: 1-896949-08-8

Year: 1998

Price: $55 CDN plus $4.00 shipping