Priscila Uppal has (to date) published five collections of poetry: How to Draw Blood From a Stone (1998), Confessions of a Fertility Expert (1999), Pretending to Die (2001), Live Coverage (2003) and Ontological Necessities (2006); all with Exile Editions. Her first novel, The Divine Economy of Salvation (2002), was published to international acclaim by Doubleday Canada, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill US, and translated into Dutch and Greek for publication by Anbos-Anthos in the Netherlands and Belgium and by Modern Times Publisher in Greece. Her poetry has been translated into Croatian, Korean, Italian, and Latvian. She holds a PhD in English Literature, and is a professor of Humanities and Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at York University.
How to Draw Blood from a Stone
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“Just when it seemed poetry had become the orphan art in our day, along comes a young poet like Priscila Uppal to astonish. Her poems put down roots in your mind, in words that wound. And heal. A wonderful debut collection.” —Rosemary Sullivan
“Her voice is coiled and powerful containing underlying passion, sometimes anger… Sometimes (the poems) are simply beautiful.” —National Post
Poetry; 1998 • 6 x 9 inches • PB 86 pages • 9781550962307