One and Half of You

A work exploring sibling and romantic love, and the complexities of being a biracial person looking for completion in another

About the author

Leanne Dunic transgresses genres and form to produce projects such as One and Half of You (Talonbooks, 2021) To Love the Coming End (Book*hug / Chin Music Press 2017) and The Gift (Book*hug 2019). She is the leader of the band The Deep Cove and lives on the unceded and occupied Traditional Territories of the x¿m¿¿k¿¿y¿¿m, S¿wx¿wú7mesh, and s¿l¿ilw¿tä¿ peoples.

Summary

From the talented multidisciplinary artist, musician, and writer Leanne Dunic comes the lyric memoir One and Half of You. In sinuous language, with candour, openness, and surprising humour, Dunic explores sibling and romantic love and the complexities of being a biracial person looking for completion in another. Including links to three songs written and performed for the book by tidepools.

Additional text

"In One and Half of You maps reify the inhabited milieux of a biracial body ... Dunic’s poems witness the events of permanent closures, rent increases, and fading photographs on the walls of restaurants. Against the ever-gentrifying calligraphy of Chinatown’s streets, Dunic’s poetry acts as a “love letter” to place at once past and present.”
—Isabella Wang, the Capilano Review
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Product details

• Authors: Leanne Dunic, Leanne Dunic
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.04.2021
• EAN: 9781772012866
• ISBN: 978-1-77201-286-6
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 145 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Ethnic Studies, POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family, Social and cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies