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"an intimate journey of self-reflection...sensitive, sincere, and
skillful"
--Sherry Quan Lee, author of "Chinese Blackbird"
About the Author
Nick Purdon was born in 1976 in East London in the Eastern Cape
province of South Africa. After a few moves around the country, his
family settled in the Western Cape city of Cape Town in 1981 where
he has lived since. Nick began writing poetry seriously at the age
of 27, though he had been writing on-and-off since his teenage
years.
About the Chapbook
The Road-Shaped Heart is the poetic journey of a man winding his
way through a landscape of darkness, anguish, addiction, loss and
grief; carrying with him a lantern of hope, courage, idealism and
love to illuminate a pathway to self-forgiveness, acceptance and
spiritual growth. While often haunting and melancholy, the poems
are also rich in vivid colour and imagery, with an ever-present
sense of fire lilies relentlessly springing forth from a razed and
scorched soul.
Acclaim for The Road-Shaped Heart
"The "Road-Shaped Heart" by Nick Purdon will squeeze the heart of
each reader to elicit emotions held tight. Each reader will find
his or her own life pain and loss within the words spread before
them like a feast to be swallowed until the soul has been
touched."
Barbara Sinor, PhD, author "Tales of Addiction and Inspiration for
Recovery"
Learn more at www.NickPurdon.com
From the World Voices Series at Modern History Press
www.ModernHistoryPress.com
How to Write a Suicide Note examines the life of a Chinese/Black
woman who grew up passing for white, who grew up poor, who loves
women but has always married white men. Writing has saved her life.
It has allowed her to name the historical trauma--the racist,
sexist, classist experiences that have kept her from being fully
alive, that have screamed at her loudly and consistently that she
was no good, and would never be any good-and that no one could love
her. Writing has given her the creative power to name the
experiences that dictated who she was, even before she was born,
and write notes to them, suicide notes.
Sherry Quan Lee believes writing saves lives; writing has saved
her life.
Acclaim for "How to Write a Suicide Note"
"How to Write a Suicide Note is a haunting portrait of the
daughter of an African mother and a Chinese father. Sherry dares to
be who she isn't supposed to be, feel what she isn't supposed to
feel, and destroys racial and gender myths as she integrates her
bi-racial identity into all that she is. Through her raw honesty
and vulnerability, Sherry captures a range of emotions most people
are afraid to confront, or even share. Her work is a gift to the
mental health community."
--Beth Kyong Lo, M.A., Psychotherapist
"Sherry Quan Lee offers us, in How to Write a Suicide Note, a deep
breathing meditation on how love is under continuous revision. And
like all the best Blues singers, Quan Lee voices the lowdown, dirty
paces that living puts us through, but without regret or
surrender."
Wesley Brown, author of Darktown Strutters and Tragic Magic
"I love the female aspects, the sex, and the strong voice Sherry
Quan Lee uses to share her private life in How To Write A Suicide
Note. I love the wit, the tongue-in-cheek, the trippiness of it
all. I love the metaphors, especially the lover and suicide ones. I
love the free-associations, the 'raving, ravenous, relentless' back
and forth. Quan Lee breaks the rules and finds her genius. How to
Write a Suicide Note is a passionate, risk-taking, outrageous,
life-affirming book and love letter."
Sharon Doubiago, author of Body and Soul, Hard Country; and other
works
Learn more about the author at www.SherryQuanLee.com
Book #2 in the Reflections of History Series from Modern History
Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com
Modern History Press is an imprint of Loving Healing Press
Critical Acclaim for Sherry Quan Lee's "Chinese Blackbird"
"Quan Lee eloquently expresses how painful and confusing it can be
to embrace the many complex identities that one body can contain.
With evocative imagery and words that cut straight to the heart,
Quan Lee details her lifelong struggles with both the vagaries and
concreteness of race, class, gender and sexual identity. Her guilt
and shame are palpable. But so too are her emotional and
intellectual triumphs. Like a favorite sad song when we have been
dumped by the love of our lives, this volume will be oddly
comforting to anyone who has ever been overcome by that sorrow
which seems insurmountable."
--Eden Torres, Assistant Professor Women's Studies, Chicano
Studies, University of Minnesota
"It's been a long time since I've been treated to a voice so full
of honesty about one's struggle to come to terms with her identity.
Through elegant poetry, full of exquisite imagery and detail, Quan
Lee takes the reader on her personal, transformative journey in
which she explores how race, class, gender and sexual identity
inform who she is. Along the way, she encounters rocks and boulders
that would have stopped many of us. Instead, she turns them over
and examines the creatures hiding in the darkness underneath,
leaving no stone on her path unturned. Quan Lee is a courageous
woman. She is one of my sheroes."
--Carolyn Holbrook, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of English,
Founder and past Artistic/Executive Director of SASE: The Write
Place
"In Chinese Blackbird, Sherry Quan Lee renders stories of her
complex cultural heritage with the lyrical touch of a poet coming
into self-possession. Through the generative power of language, Lee
creates an inspirational and a multifarious self. This self blows
breath unto the page and into the reader, who may have felt
quiescent or invisible, often feeling forced to choose among
various enriching worlds, until she experiences the truth that only
good literature can unveil about the joys and struggles of defining
oneself on one's terms."
--Pamela R. Fletcher, Associate Professor of English Co-Director
of Critical Studies in Race and Ethnicity, College of St. Catherine
Learn more about the author at www.SherryQuanLee.com
Book #3 in the Reflections of History Series from Modern History
Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com
Modern History Press is an imprint of Loving Healing Press
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