Laundry lines : a memoir in stories and poems

Carson, Ann Elizabeth 1929- (author.).

Summary: "One unique feature of this book is Ann Elizabeth?s exploration of similarities between the unique coded language used by women and the one used by those working on the Underground Railway. The positioning of laundry on a line and particular quilted patterns were used to convey, for instance, whether a man/woman or a travel route was safe. Ann uses her skill as a long-time psychotherapist and writer to elucidate the role of women?s hidden language and how we communicate a rich subterranean world of emotion and knowledge subtly to one another." --publisher's website

Record details

ISBN: 9781771332699
ISBN: 1771332697
Physical Description: print
xv, 130 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Toronto : Inanna Publications, [2015]
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Life laundry: prospects and constraints -- We must tell our stories -- Laundry life -- Mind cellar -- The play -- Weave and mend -- Border lines: loss and redemption -- Testing the spirit -- Life lines: nature's lineage.