Deep Salt Water

Deep Salt Water is a stirring memoir about loss and abortion, expressed through the layering of imagery from the ocean. In detail at once sensual and sophisticated, Apostolides unfurls the emotional experience of a love affair and unwanted pregnancy, the abortion itself, and her reconnection with the man seventeen years later--a rekindling of love which stimulates this gentle attempt to come to terms with the abortion and its consequences. Moving from a place of intense intimacy to an outward focus that engages with the broader world, Deep Salt Water discusses abortion in all its complexity, rejecting polarizing rhetoric in favour of the unfathomable truths that women hold in their bodies.

With 9 full colour plates of mixed media collage by Catherine Mellinger.

Praise for Deep Salt Water

"...an intoxicating, accretive reading experience, shot through with recognizable truth and a clever use of the splice of precision and interruption to deliver them." --Anakana Schofield

"Deep Salt Water is intimate and sensual, tidal and saline--how can a book be tidal and saline? These words make sense within the environment of the book. Apostolides's language is not of pristine nature but of the anthropocene, our current geologic age of bleached coral and oceans choking on plastics. In light of man-made climate catastrophe, learning this language takes on added urgency." --Jade Colbert, The Globe & Mail

Author: Marianne Apostolides
Publisher: Book*hug Press
Published: 03/08/2017
Pages: 174
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781771662789
ISBN10: 1771662786
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Literary Criticism | General

About the Author
Marianne Apostolides is the author of six books, three of which have been translated. She's also a recipient of the Chalmers Arts Fellowship and a finalist for the KM Hunter Award. Her previous non-fiction work, Voluptuous Pleasure, was listed among the Top 100 Books of 2012 by the Globe & Mail. Marianne lives in Toronto with her two children.

Catherine Mellinger is a mixed media and analog collage artist whose works find inspiration in the ideas originated by the feminist artists of the Dada period as well as the early Surrealists, lending to the exploration of dichotomy; real and unreal, beauty and trauma. Mellinger's works have been published in literary magazines, and she has been commissioned by musicians, writers and private collectors. She lives in Waterloo, Ontario with her husband and son.