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The following is excerpted from the Globe & Mail review of Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa.
When P.K. Page (1916-2010), painter, short fiction writer and extraordinary poet, sought a biographer, she turned in 1996 to Sandra Djwa, author of The Politics of the Imagination: A Life of F.R. Scott (1987) and professor emeritus of Simon Fraser University. Djwa, who first met Page in 1970, when she invited her to give a reading at Simon Fraser, accepted the assignment. The loving result is a candid work shaped by Djwa’s many subsequent interviews with the writer, as well as interviews with Page’s husband, distinguished statesman Arthur Irwin, and many of her friends.
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Illustrated with paintings and photographs, Journey with No Maps is a detailed voyage through Page’s life, including her lifelong quest for self-discovery, her inceasing involvement with Sufism and her self-description as “a borderline being.” This first full biography of a multitalented poet and visual artist, who won applause from such disparate figures as Stephen Spender, Joseph Brodsky and Margaret Atwood, is a foundational work future studies will consult for a full appreciation of Page’s astonishing career as a major artist of our time.
Read an interview with Sandra Djwa
Meet the author
Meet Sandra Djwa at the Toronto launch of her book,
Journey with No Maps
Monday, November 5, 2012, 6-8 pm
Ben McNally Bookstore, 366 Bay Street, Toronto
To learn more about Journey with No Maps, or to order online, click here.
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