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    Sumac's Red Arms

    By Karen Shklanka

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    Karen Shklanka writes clearly and unsentimentally about stitching a fight victim back together in Moose Factory, going to sign the death certificate of a radiant long-time patient on Salt Spring Island, watching a man slowly losing his memory in an unnamed city. How is a medical professional to survive these daily reminders of life's fragility and uncertainty with compassion and humanity intact, without becoming cold and distant?

    She presents two very different answers to this task. One is to drink deeply of the earthy beauty of the natural world and its feast for the senses. She writes passionately about garden flowers, exotic fruits and spices, animals both wild and domestic, the crystalline beauty of the heavens.

    The other is to give oneself to the nuanced, sophisticated, sensuality of the tango. She tangos, poetically, with husbands, lovers and strangers in many parts of the world. She finds in the dance's controlled abandon an embrace, a celebration of her life sufficiently intense to make her want to go on, despite what she so clearly knows about what inevitably lies ahead. We live in the physical world, she says, both the world around us and the physicality of our own bodies. It is the potential for beauty, grace and passion in both of these physical worlds that must be our touchstone and our solace.

    Partial Proceeds of this book will be donated to the Vancouver Foundation, and directed toward programs for Aboriginal youth and suicide prevention.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCoteau Books
    Release dateApr 1, 2009
    ISBN9781550508697
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    Sumac's Red Arms
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    Karen Shklanka

    Karen Shklanka is a poet, family physician and an Argentine Tango dancer. Her first book of poetry, Sumac’s Red Arms, published by Coteau Books in 2009, was nominated for a ForeWord Review’s Book of the Year award. In 2012 she was long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize (for “Flight Log” – included in this collection). Her poetry has been included in the Planet Earth Poetry Anthology and the 2004 chapbook anthology, Letters We Never Sent, edited by Patrick Lane. She was four times a finalist in ARC magazine’s international poem contest, and has been published in numerous other literary periodicals, most recently in CV2 and Room. Born in Toronto, Karen Shklanka spent 14 years practicing rural and emergency medicine in small and medium-sized Canadian communities. She has an MFA in creative writing from UBC and currently works as a hospital-based Addiction and Pain medicine consultant in Vancouver, and as a Clinical Assistant Professor at UBC.

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