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| Named Person: | Susan Gardner |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan Gardner |
| ISBN: | 9780979986550 0979986559 |
| OCLC Number: | 712118254 |
| Description: | 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Susan Gardner. |
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Sophisticated and profound, DRAWING THE LINE is soulful and beautiful.
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“I have lived a life in motion,” writes Susan Gardner in her insightful memoir, Drawing the Line. “With a brush in my hand and the silence of the line, I found myself to be real.” Indeed, from surviving as an unwanted child and abused wife, Gardner has moved through her life line “serpentine, calligraphic, curving with deliberate and inadvertent turnings.” This capacity for change has enabled her to adapt to life in Korea, Japan, Mexico and numerous other ports of call as mother, artist, researcher, diplomatic escort, teacher and writer. Using the calligraphic line as an extended metaphor (“I saw a place of silence, first in the line and then in myself”), Gardner has given us a meticulously detailed, ruthlessly honest and emotionally redemptive story of how she has crafted a reality of her choosing. “My line was my epiphany,” Gardner writes. Drawing the Line generously offers that epiphany to all of us.
-Wayne Lee, author of Doggerel & Caterwauls: Poems Inspired by Cats & Dogs
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