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She Dreams in Red

by Alexis Kienlen

She Dreams in Red is the story of journeys – from China to Canada, to Indonesia, to Mongolia into the mysteries of the human heart and romantic relationships. Exploring the author’s unique cultural background and history, travels and encounters with love and loss, these poems attempt to make sense of the world with simple images painted in clean brushstrokes.

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$15.95 CAD

Additional information

Weight .155 kg
Dimensions 8.5 × 5.5 × .25 in
Page Count

88
Binding

Soft Cover
Year Published

2007

Alexis Kienlen

Alexis Kienlen is originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and currently lives in Edmonton, Alberta. She is of mixed ethnic heritage: Chinese, French, German, and English/Scottish. She holds an International Studies degree from the University of Saskatchewan,  a Graduate Diploma in Journalism from Concordia University and a Certificate in Food Security from Toronto Metropolitan University. Alexis’ journalism work, essays, poems, and fiction have appeared in numerous publications in Canada, and on the world wide web. Alexis has published two books of poetry with Frontenac House, She dreams in Red and 13. Her biography of a Sikh civil rights activist, Truth, love, non-violence was published in 2014. Her novel Mad Cow, which tells the story of a farm family dealing with the BSE (Mad cow) crisis was published in 2020.

Kienlen writes knowingly of Chinese Cafes, splendid meals, a barely acknowledged grandfather’s wife left in China and racism, of the words that “slapped my mother’s face.” These poems live in a world of secrets and legends and what she takes from the past.
~ Bill Robertson, Star Phoenix

Plenty to admire in the brevity and close observation of domestic and travelogue detail, the handling of colloquial speech rhythms and phrasing.
~ Richard Stevenson, Northern Poetry Review