Joanne PageJoanne Page lives in Kingston, where she has spent almost two decades as an editor, journalist, visual artist, wife, and mother of twosons. Her first book, The River and the Lake, was published by Quarry Press in 1993. In recent years Joanne lost herfather and three close friends to cancer. On the heels of this, she herself was diagnosed with breast cancer. At the same time, the young daughter of a friend committed suicide, and Joanne was pitched headlong into the examination of life which has resulted, in part, in Persuasion for a Mathematician. Of the collection, Stephanie Bolster writes, "Rarely have I read an early collection so unfettered in its ambition and so fearless. In its open-eyed examination of suicide and cancer; in its erudition; and in its leaps (imagistic to discursive, chatty to elegant, goofy to deeply serious) this book makes demands of us, and in return it offers hard-won insights and genuine hope. The final series, "Codex on flight," in which first-person lyrics from a contemporary speaker sit alongside moments in Leonardo da Vinci's life, stands as a moving and original achievement." Books: Persuasion for a Mathematician (Pedlar Press 2003)The River & The Lake (Quarry Press 1993)Arguments with the World: Essays by Bronwen Wallace) edited by Joanne Page (Quarry Press 1992)Anthologies: Kingston Poets' Gallery (Artful Codger Press 2006)Rip Rap (Banff Centre Press 1999)On the Threshold (Beach Holme Publishing 1999)Close to the Heart (English Garden Publishers 1996) Read More Read Less