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Backup to Babylon Paperback - 2006

by Maxine Gadd


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Poetry. BACKUP TO BABYLON collects three shorter works by Maxine Gadd, a writer who has based her life and her work in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside for more than two decades. The first section, Greenstone, follows an arc between rural life, shaped by idealism, and the city. Feminism, activism, and utopianism are among Gadd's concerns. Backup to Babylon describes the Vancouver of the 1980s, a time of the Francis Street Squat, of Solidarity, of political hope raised up and crushed. Lac Lake describes a world made from the pieces left by the collision of cultures called contact. Versions of Greenstone, Backup to Babylon, and Lac Lake were privately published in limited editions. With their publication in book form, they are now made available for the first time to a broader readership. Red diaper baby Maxine Gadd's writing reflects an engagement with contemporary art and critical movements, alongside a connection to neighbourhoods and community. She credits the Kootenay School of Writing with introducing her to many of the writers who fed her during the time this work was written

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  • Title Backup to Babylon
  • Author Maxine Gadd
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 148
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Star Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Date 2006
  • ISBN 9781554200245 / 1554200245
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Canadiana
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006445421
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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