Two Eyes Are You Sleeping
by Heather O'Neil
Book Description
This is the first full-length collection of poems by Heather O'Neill, a writer and performer living in Montreal. two eyes are you sleeping is a linked collection of personal and political lyrics, written in a voice that reflects both the rootlessness and violence of the urban landscape and a metaphorical brilliance that transforms the ordinary into the visionary.These are poems of the street, poems of defenselessness, strength, perversity and generosity, poems of drug addicts, alcoholics, con-men and sexual adventurers, poems to shout out in the bathtub with the radio blaring out the song you loved when you were fourteen. Most of all they are about growing up human in the drab beauty of the city.
About the Author
As well as two eyes are you sleeping Heather O'Neill has written the screenplay for the film St. Jude, directed by John L'Ecuyer. She lives in Montreal with her daughter Arizona and her father, ex-gangster and local legend Buddy O'Neill.
Keywords: Two Eyes Are You Sleeping, Books, Heather O'Neil, Heather O'Neill, Poetry, General
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