{"product_id":"rooms-women-writing-woolf-paperback","title":"Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSina Queyras\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE QWF MAVIS GALLANT PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, \u003ci\u003eRooms\u003c\/i\u003e offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e30 years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they'd turned in an essay on Virginia Woolf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eQueyras returns to that contentious first encounter with Virginia Woolf to recover the body and thinking of that time. Using Woolf's \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e as a touchstone, this book is both an homage to and provocation of the idea of a room of one's own at the centre of our idea of a literary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow central is the room? And what happens once we get one? Do we inhabit our rooms? Or do the rooms contain us? Blending memoir, prose, tweets, poetry, and criticism, \u003cem\u003eRooms\u003c\/em\u003e offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind, and from a very private life of the mind to a public life of the page, and from a life of the page into a life in the Academy, the Internet, and on social media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With Virginia Woolf alongside them, Queyras journeys through rooms literal and figurative, complicating and deepening our understanding of what it means to create space for oneself as a writer. Their hard-won language challenges us to resist any glib associations of Woolf's famous 'room' with an easy freedom. Inspiring and moving, Queyras's memoir testifies to Woolf's continuing generative power.\"--Mark Hussey, editor of \u003cem\u003eVirginia Woolf's Between the Acts\u003c\/em\u003e (2011) and author of \u003cem\u003eClive Bell and the Making of Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e (2021)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this beautiful, perceptive book, Sina Queyras moves deftly between the words and wake of Virginia Woolf and their own formation as writer, lover, teacher, friend, and person. \u003cem\u003eRooms\u003c\/em\u003e is expert in its depiction of personal and literary histories, and firmly aware of its moment of composition. Reading these pages, I was enticed by Queyras's curiosity and openness, thrilled by the sharp edges of their anger. Tight prose, electric thinking, self-discovery - it's all here, all abuzz. \u003cem\u003eRooms\u003c\/em\u003e is alive.\" - Heather Christle, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Crying Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It is impossible not to question the world as we thought we knew it by the end of this book. Sina Queyras painstakingly aims their extraordinary nerve and talent at Virginia Woolf's idea of a room of one's own: 'It's a mistake to consider the room without all of its entanglements.' Taking Woolf's cue, Queyras explores writing that is not world-building but something far more generous and transformative; as Woolf wrote, 'Literature is open to everybody.'\" - CAConrad, author of \u003cem\u003eAMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \r\nSina Queyras is the author of the poetry collections, MxT, Expressway and Lemon Hound. Her work has been nominated for a Governor General’s Award, and won The Friends of Poetry Award from Poetry Magazine, The AM Klein Award for Poetry, a Lambda, the Pat Lowther Award, a Pushcart Prize and Gold in the National Magazine Award. Her first novel, Autobiography of Childhood was nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. In 2005 she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets, for Persea Books. She is founding editor of Lemon Hound. She has taught creative writing at Rutgers, Haverford and Concordia University in Montreal where she currently resides.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 7.95 x 4.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 31, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48206191296760,"sku":"9781552454336","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/VUluVFpwcVg0MG9pc0JSc1YrNS9ZZz09.webp?v=1775602204","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/rooms-women-writing-woolf-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}