A woman of two worlds explores personal identity, spirituality and relationships in Sleep is a Country, her first collection. Her life has been both prairie and capital, French and English. Le Dressay's often removed observations and sometimes heated interactions are shared in poems connected by strong emotion.

Anne Le Dressay grew up in Manitoba, first on a farm near Virden and then on an acreage outside Lorette. She has lived for extended periods in Winnipeg, Ottawa, and Edmonton (in that order). She taught English and Creative Writing for ten years in Alberta. She is now in Ottawa for the second time, working for the feds. She has been publishing sporadically since the 1970Õs. She has one book, Sleep Is a Country (Harbinger, 1997) and two chapbooks, This Body That I Live In (Turnstone, 1979) and Woman Dreams (above/ground, 1998).

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"Have you heard rocks keening? Anne Le Dressay helps us recognize the sound. Austere as ancient standing stones, her poems are perfectly shaped, perfectly positioned to reflect the wordless light." - Mary A. Wright "In a voice both tender and mordant, Anne Le Dressay traces the seismic shifts of the urban world where identities are never constant. These are poems that test the thin walls between self and stranger, reaching through to touch us with the dark wit of recognition." - Nadine McInnis