Cutting My Mother's Hair

Cutting My Mother's Hair is a contemporary, feminist engagement with Dante's Inferno. It is also a portrait of society's lack of compassion for those who suffer from mental illness. Taking as its inspiration the great Italian epic, this book depicts contemporary women in various stages of domestic hell and interrogates their familial and social inheritance of patriarchy. The final section creates a fictional story of two women caught in the rings of the Inferno, suffering breakdown, for whom there is no compassion.

Prologue - Beatrice's granddaughter	p. 11
The fruitpicker	p. 15
One day her daughter	p. 17
For love of smugness that we pulled it off	p. 18
A letter never written to daughters	p. 19
You, runaway North Bay	p. 20
Cutting my mother's hair	p. 21
A terror for washed floors	p. 24
Last passenger on the Ferry at Port-aux-Basques	p. 29
The fishdresser's half life drives north on route 430	p. 31
This side of Acheron	p. 35
The riddle of Cirrus, or the high horse that observed Canada	p. 36
Snapshot of a grandfather from Antrim	p. 41
Widowmaker	p. 43
Entries missing from the Logger's dictionary	p. 45
The Hangglider on the Blomidon Mountains	p. 46
I have imagined ...	p. 51
The superintendent	p. 52
A want of light	p. 54
Angels in Absentia	p. 55
The principles of Chiaroscuro	p. 57
Some turn ...	p. 59
Buying the S collection	p. 60
The genome project	p. 61
Conversations on Yonge St	p. 63
The landlord	p. 65
Notes missing from the captain's log, Charon's Ferry to Acheron	p. 66
They tie wrists ...	p. 67
Three paintings	p. 68
The city clots a collage at the corner of the taking	p. 70
What the doctor observed after 72 Hours	p. 71
Our first visit	p. 72
The line grows thin ...	p. 73
The wood of the suicides	p. 74
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