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All My Love and Then Some
All My Love and Then Some: The Letters of Cpl. Polly G. Meilman RCAF (WD) to Her Parents, 1942-1944 is not one of my artist's books, but a just-published book of letters edited by my sister Margaret Melhorn. I didn't become a funny feminist artist all on my own—both my parents had a sense of humour, but my mother was particularly wacky. (It was she who chose Light and Flaky as the title of the memoir with recipes which I produced many years ago.) As the description on the Friesen Press website says: "Filled with Meilman's characteristic wit and humour, these letters provide a lively firsthand account of a young woman learning, adjusting and maturing during her service in the air force." More than eighty of the letters Polly wrote home were saved in a brown paper bag. Margaret has compiled and edited these letters and augmented them with insights into their historical and familial context.
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Friesen Press
On the Grain
On the Grain is the latest in a series of sewn books using poems about sewing as text. So far, there are five books with text by Lorna Crozier (see Button, Zipper, Needle, Ironing Board and Scissors on the LIST-sewing page,) four with poems by Hazel Hall (see Counterpanes, Heavy Threads, Mending, and Two Sewing,) one with a poem by Terry Ann Carter (see Zipper: A Suite,) one by Alexandra Cussons (see Sewing Pattern,) two by Diane Dawber (see Grandmother and Aunt,) one by Bronwen Wallace (see Like the Petit Point) and one by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (see I Sit and Sew) and this one by Cindy Veach.
Cindy Veach's poem comes from her book entitled Gloved Against the Blood which explores the relationships of four generations of women in Lowell, Massachusetts, site of several textile mills in previous centuries. The impatient teenaged seamstress in the poem tries to skip important steps so her clothes never look like the pictures on the pattern envelopes.
See the LIST page, for more information. Click on the Poems about Sewing button.
Permission to use poem from CavanKerry Press.
2024, Kingston. (7 1/2 x 11 x 3" when closed ) Edition of 10. $750
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