The Self-Completing Tree

The second title to be included in Beach Holme's newly-christened Canadian Classics Series, The Self-Completing Tree is the author's own collection of the best of her last 50 years of writing. In this new edition, the celebrated Grand Dame of English Canadian letters and award-winning poet uses the metaphor implied by the title-a tree, half verdant, half in flames-to symbolize the androgynous self. This is the theme of much of Livesay's work and the central metaphor for the definitive collection of her poetry. The result is a spiritual autobiography charting the fascinating domains of her own life and of the universal struggles we all share.Dorothy Livesay is the author of 'The Self-Completing Tree', published 1999 under ISBN 9780888782588 and ISBN 0888782586.