The Deep End
Editat de Lindsay Zier-Vogel, Andrea Bennetten Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mai 2027
What draws us to the water? Why do we return to it again and again--for exercise, escape, healing, challenge, community, and solitude? In this collection, twenty-three writers explore the many ways swimming shapes our lives, identities, and relationships to the world around us.
Spanning pools, lakes, rivers, oceans, and shorelines, these deeply personal reflections examine what we bring into the water, and what the water gives back. Ayelet Tsabari attempts to overcome her fear of swimming in the open sea as her country engages in yet another seemingly endless war; S. Bear Bergman returns to the pool as a trans man; Adrienne Gruber processes trauma in the water; Mark Tewksbury writes about giving up swimming after winning at the Olympics; Harrison Mooney writes about racism in Vancouver pools.
Together, these essays reveal swimming to be far more than mere physical activity. Water becomes a place of transformation, resistance, recovery, pleasure, and self-discovery. The anthology asks not only why we swim, but what swimming makes possible--how immersion can quiet the mind, reconnect us with our bodies, and offer moments of freedom beyond the language we use to articulate it.
The Deep End invites readers to dive into the complex emotional, cultural, and political currents that shape our relationship with water. Whether you're a lifelong swimmer or someone who simply feels the pull of a lake on a hot summer day, these essays illuminate the enduring mystery of why humans are drawn to the water.
With essay contributions from Jean Marc Ah-Sen, andrea bennett, S. Bear Bergman, Gillian Best, Marita Dachsel, John Degen, Dina Del Bucchia, Lev Goldberg, Adrienne Gruber, Jessica J. Lee, Tara McGuire, Harrison Mooney, Devon Murphy, emmy nordstrom higdon, Hue Pham, Tazi Rodrigues, Susan Simmons, Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Anna Swanson, Mark Tewksbury, Ayelet Tsabari, Andrea Warner, and Lindsay Zier-Vogel.
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ISBN-10: 1778980104
Pagini: 274
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Editura: Book*hug Press
Notă biografică
LINDSAY ZIER-VOGEL is a Toronto-based author, swimmer, grant writer, and the creator of the internationally acclaimed Love Lettering Project. She is the author of The Fun Times Brigade (2025), and Letters to Amelia (2021), and her first picture book, Dear Street (2023) was a Junior Library Guild pick, a Canadian Children's Book Centre book of the year, and was nominated for three reader's choice awards--the Forest of Reading (Canada), a Magnolia Book Award in Mississippi and the Mountain Laurel Award in Pennsylvania. Her first poetry collection, Midnight to 2 a.m., is forthcoming in fall 2027.
andrea bennett is a National Magazine Award-winning writer and a senior editor at The Tyee. They are the author of six books, including the essay collection Hearty: On Cooking, Eating, and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence, which won a Taste Canada gold award, and the berry takes the shape of the bloom, a second-place winner of the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry. With David Beers, they co-edited the B.C. best-selling anthology Points of Interest: In Search of the Places, People, and Stories of BC. bennett lives on the northern Sunshine Coast in British Columbia.