I’m Ingrid Rose, writer, facilitator of online creative writing & ‘writing from the body’; graduate of The Writers Studio in 2001 and I’ll be launching my book, A Woman Re/members the Body: essays & other stories on Saturday October 24 @2pm at enabling arts, 343 Railway St, Vancouver.
This is what Rachel Rose, author of The Octopus Has Three Hearts and The Scarlet Daughter, says about A Woman Re/members the Body — Walk with Ingrid Rose through her lyrical life, explored and interrogated in her memoir. Learn the measure and pace of one woman’s story as she finds her place in her eccentric family and in the world at large. How is the walk of a lifetime measured when the path is crooked and complicated? Ingrid was born English, Jewish, loved passionately as a schoolgirl, left home early, seeking the life of a writer in New York City, lived a communal life in France, becoming a mother with her Flemish husband, Jos, and then moved again for Vancouver, returning to walk with her twin after decades apart.
She has crafted a memoir that will make you re-examine your own life path as you read. A Woman Re/members interrogates politics and language itself, doubling back from past to far past to present, asking the hard questions of self and family, freedom, home and belonging, never settling for a facile answer, but always seeking out the sweetness of the journey itself, wherever it may lead.
Arleen Paré, author of ten collections of poetry, winner of a Governor Generals’ Award for Poetry, writes — Ingrid Rose has given us a memoir for the times. Born mid-twentieth century and a self-described maverick, she was the daughter of a London communist/capitalist father and a demanding bourgeois mother. She is a lover of books and a passionate reader from an early age, an unmarried mother, a twin, always companioned. Canisia Lubrin stresses the importance, the appeal, of story: “a wanting life to continue.” In A Woman Re/membersthe Body, Rose writes her story in engaging detail from the outside in toward self love, toward what makes us all human.
